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The Abuse of Property
My wife is studying the philosophy of property and housing, so a lot of cross-over with my recommoning work. (I don‘t actually know what else to call it, so that will do for now.) This conversation was with Daniel Loick, Brenna Bhandar and Jacob Blumenfeld.
August 7, 2025
Political music
BYE BYE 25! When I was thinking of lyric ideas, it occurred to me to use words taken from a site that had all the words that Trump has essentially banned, meaning any grant or piece of a project or proposal for research that includes any of those words would be immediately disregarded or “cancelled.” I guess Trump does believe in cancel culture, because he is literally trying to cancel culture.
July 29, 2025
Introduction
Well, I’ve been accepted on the MSc in Environment and Development at Cardiff University, I have a potential mixed enterprise agroforestry site in mind, and I‘ve had some good feedback on a grant application. 🎉 The name of the site is Recommoning, because I think there needs to be a fundamental rethinking of how society is organised to tackle the nature and nature climate crisis. For a very long time, the intellectual consensus has been that we can no longer ask Great Questions. Increasingly, it’s looking like we have no other choice
July 22, 2025