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Adam Greenfield

Good evening, beloved! It’s time to share some more of #myfavoritethings – this time, Clifford Harper’s legendary “Visions,” circa 1975. These detailed, carefully considered illustrations depict what typical British spatial arrangements — terraced housing, allotments, council estates, etc. – might look like after they’d been reclaimed by autonomist collectives, in some not too distant future, and turned over to participatory decisionmaking and renewable energy. They continue to inspire even now.

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Adam Greenfield

If I had to identify the actual moment I began thinking about the ideas that would eventually become the book I’m now trying to finish, it was when I first laid eyes on these drawings, in a flat above the ATM on Belvedere Street in the Upoer Haight, in early 1991. I wrote some about Harper’s “Visions” here: speedbird.wordpress.com/2016/0 Enjoy!

ckohtala

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will read with interest! 😍

Simon Sadler interviewed Peter Jackson for our special issue of Digital Culture & Society:
degruyter.com/document/doi/10.

(I'm waiting for the publisher to end the embargo and put it open access on the journal website - in the meantime I'll probably put a preprint on zenodo.)

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