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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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Permapoesis
Permapoesis is the portmanteau for permanent making. A term I've developed, incorporating permaculture principles, shared Aboriginal knowledges and our own neopeasant lifeways to help reclaim sensible thought and remodel ecological economies of material accountability.
My most recent book, re:)Fermenting culture can now be listened to as a non-monetised audio book. Just click the pop out below. Gifts in exchange for this labour are most welcome, and in some form will be passed on in what I call a flow of gifts economy.
My name is Patrick Jones. I live and labour on Djaara peoples' country. Dja Dja Wurrung is the first language of this land. I acknowledge the six Djaara seasons and pay homage to the regenerative economies upon which Djaara living culture sits. The spirit and logic of which my household draws upon in our everyday productions and lifeways while simultaneously drawing upon our own indigenous peoples through story and the ancestral plants, animals, microbes, mushrooms and uncapitalised medicines that have also emplaced on this country. We recognise the system of racism that terra nullius continues to instil in the dominant culture, and recognise that as people of many diverse white cultures we still hold cultural blinders that our historical trauma sits within and (now) our privilege stands upon.
Here are some of my books. The bottom two can be purchased from me direct, however if you're moving to a non-monetary economy I'll post you one in exchange for a gift of your making. Please feel free to suggest an exchange by emailing me (click above 'Contact me' tab).
re:)Fermenting culture (2017) Sold Out in hard copy
Email me to receive a PDF, or click below for audio.
Click the 'Pop out' to listen to re:)Fermenting culture (or click through to download audio file)
A Free-dragging Manifesto (2008)
Words and Things (2004)
Earlier
DCFG
Social Media I no longer use
Coming Soon (to a lifestyle near you)
Relocalise Hepburn
hepburn relocalisation network
Permapoesis by Patrick Jones is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
2 comments:
hmmmmmm..... the first thing that entered my head was.... well what DO you use to connect with the bloggy world? (laptop? desktop? other mobile?) what brand/make/year model/ place of manufacture etc etc etc is it? is there indeed an ethical, green manufacturer of computers, mobile phones, printers (insert any other electronic device here)?
Or don't all computers and mobiles use similar components sourced and manufactured in similarly suspicious circumstances?
And irrespective of device - don't the happy little bloggy waves travel along the same countless kilometres (and miles for those in non-metric lands) through fibre optics or get emitted from large steel towers that are dotted all over the countryside (sharing their brain-cancer-causing love with all and sundry?)
I ask this not as a critique of your comment - but with genuine interest....
I'm currently writing about what materials I use within my arts practice (uggggh exegesis writing aint my thang) and I'm getting positively bogged down trying to explain why I use certain things (recycled items, ethically sourced this and that, non-toxic bits.... blah blah blah) and avoid others (paint with mined pigments, solvents, products that make you go hmmmmmmm?) and some of the principles behind my ethos.... but as I'm typing away I'm conscious of how the only way I can avoid contact with 'the unclean' is to stop making and breathing.... both of which would put a dampener on my research project I suspect....
thanks ronnie, you make great comments!
i guess the only thing we can do, other than commit to total abstinence, is not support the corporations who make these products. that they get not one single dollar of our money. the only way to do this is always buy second hand technology, pick it up from tips, op shops or online garage sales, and to treble the amount of time we use these tools for. in our house we do the same with clothes, cooking implements, etc. occasionally something is bought new, but only if we know it will last the test of time.
true, we are still using these products from industrial culture as we transition away from such reliances, but we are not fueling the need for more and more stuff, we are using the wastes of an extremely wasteful culture.
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