Welcome to the Miscellaneous Materials Reading Club MM021. This is Season 3 issue 2. 



Current CO2 PPM: August 08:  414.36 ppm
https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/monthly.html
We need to get back down to 350, or even 275ppm or so — pre human industry levels. The last time in the fossil record CO2 levels were this high, crocodile-like reptiles were roaming the Arctic Ocean.

This 21st collection of Miscellaneous Materials is another hodge podgel. These pdfs and links and such were collected over February 2021. AND it is a gargantuan virtual pile. I collected a lot of similar things this time around — several PDFS on similar subjects/content/searches, though the overall breadth is still wide.

The 57 items collected this time around go from thinking about agonism as it relates to design and democracy; using computers as a design tool; postmodernism; the UN's ideas on our sustainable future from way back in the 80s; art and ecology; aesthetics and ecology; thoughts on how to read; semiotics; the origins of form; utopias; time; appropriate technology; getting rid of work; a bunch of different things with "shape" in the title; and so much more. I hope you can find something in this folder that engages or inspires you. 

Thanks. So! Get to reading, and as always, let me know what you found interesting.

View MM021 as folder on Dropbox
or, Download a zip of Miscellaneous Materials 021 from dropbox!
And! Collected on Are.na too

My email (or phone) is always open for response and conversation.

Kristian Bjornard
507 301 8402
bjornmeansbear@pm.me
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