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hiatus update
August 4, 2022
hello everyone, i was planning on ending the newsletter hiatus a few days ago but, upon returning to my cherished and way too long drafts collection, i've...
Hiatus
May 8, 2022
Self-explanatory, will be back in maybe two months. take care <3
On trying things and failing forward : the problem of problems, selves helping selves,
April 29, 2022
As a preface to the introduction : The wicked problems of living "Knowledge problems" (or epistemological problems) is a name for a serie of problems that...
Notes on lifestream : a brief and inexhaustive account of the american habit of recording violence
March 29, 2022
Violence : is not a mythical force from beyond nor a birth defect nor an absolutely immoral act nor the liberating tool of oppressed people always...
On trying things and failing forward : Fitting Maps and Nesting values
February 28, 2022
"if your project was so good then how come it failed." - Someone with too much at stake to take a breathe From Half-assing shit and its consequences you get...
Beyond the Fanatic Domain : cyber-hooliganism
January 28, 2022
This is a long brainwormy one that feels like my substack's effortpoasts of old. This is going to be comprehensible up to the point where it's not so just...
WARTEMPO 2021-2022
December 31, 2021
It's been a rough fucking year. I don't feel as several as I did last time. Lost some folks, met some. Got a bit more tired. (too much stoicism in my life,...
On trying things and failing forward : Half-assing shit
December 29, 2021
"Never whistle while you're pissing" - Hagbard Celine One of the problems of History as a set of narratives and bundled information is the affective...
Notes on Lifestream : TVVITTER lurker
November 29, 2021
There's no formal equivalent to twitter (can you believe it's already 15 years old?), if you wanna think referentially the most you can do is relate your...
Pseudonymity : displaced, shadowbanned, punished
October 29, 2021
Not a correction, just an addendum : >>>punished? Joint deletion of the Novara Media and Trust.support videos from youtube (the first temporarily, the second...
Pseudonymity and the shape of things to come
October 29, 2021
The trajectories of visibility, anonymity, pseudonymity and recognition can be observed most easily when you pay attention to the failures of legibility and...
Notes on Lifestream : what is a second to boredom
September 29, 2021
I am delineating the boundaries of an idea and, as always, it's a hard thing to compartimentalize because everything reaches everywhere, every thing is...
This newsletter may awaken at some point
September 24, 2021
Just a heads up -Ospare
don't call it a goodbye
April 1, 2021
A quick note : I don’t know if you can call it a hiatus if I don’t have a regular schedule to begin with but his specific newsletter is gonna have to pause...
Utopian Considerations(4) : Movements in the key of Play
February 15, 2021
Johan Huizinga’s book “Homo Ludens” presents Play as freedom, a feeling and a moment in life that brings great joy to its practioneers.To play is not to work...
Linked up
January 25, 2021
A short addendum to my fandom pieces, I swear I’ll share happy thoughts later. chica marx @mckenziewarkFeels to me like there's too many content creators and...
Fanatic Domain
December 10, 2020
Hello. There’s a bit of a problem with my substack in that all my drafts can’t be modified anymore so i’ve had to retype this whole thing. Sometimes it’s...
Tough Stan, Fan Stuff
November 6, 2020
Started this one a while ago. It’s not good to keep things unfinished, here’s a lament and a cry : What does it mean to be together This might be one of the...
staying in touch
September 8, 2020
Ian Crawley - Here we go - 1997Haven’t given news in a while but I felt like doing it now. Probably shame.A newsletter a month could be a good rhythm for me...
Late Linkdump
August 7, 2020
Always late for something and early for something else, pulled and loose, aïaïa. What’s really good tho ? It’s been a hot minute. It’s been more than that If...
UTOPIAN CONSIDERATIONS(3) : A copless world
July 10, 2020
Obvious content warning for everything going on. Discussions of Whiteness, Blackness, police, violence, you know the drill. What has been different about the...
UTOPIAN CONSIDERATIONS (2) : the Biocosmist "We"
June 23, 2020
Happy Birthday Octavia Butler, your light shines, always. - How’re you ? I don’t know who follows this newsletter so I can’t tell if you’re non-black people...
Wartempo 2020
June 7, 2020
CW for discussion of everything going on in the americas, fascism/colonialism, war. Stay safe. thebe kgositsile @earlxsweatthere is no 'regular' to go back...
That topos
May 23, 2020
Send mail at ospare@protonmail.org or ospare@substack.com Ramadan Mubarak y’all, you’ve read the vice, here’s the versa : Woke up at 6 am to feed the plants...
Backpain Bogus - LINK DUMP
May 9, 2020
This is Ospare, I am located in France and this is what it looks like : I had something else planned for this week-end’s newsletter but life got in the way...
This Topos
April 25, 2020
Thank you to the Nothing.Here team for having me on last week, it was a pleasure. (if you’re not here because of them and/or don’t know them you should check...
UTOPIAN CONSIDERATIONS(1) : Pirate Utopias
April 11, 2020
INTENTION SETTING;I’m thinking about actually setting up an intention for this work of writing i’m doing. Picking a direction for my will.Direction implies a...
UTOPIAN CONSIDERATIONS(0): Hikikomarxism
April 9, 2020
So I wrote too big of a newsletter and couldn’t put the links I wanted in the first one, so here’s a UTOPIAN CONSIDERATIONS appendix/preface with a nice...
DYSTOPIAN DOMESTICATION
March 28, 2020
Content Warning for feelings. LOOKING AT DESERT When I look at the future with me in it, I can’t imagine a world at peace.I’m not hopeless, nor delusional(I...
Backpain Bonus - LINKS DUMP
March 13, 2020
Content warning: discussion of state violence and patriarchy, if you don’t wanna see it, go straight to the Next Section. This is Ospare, I am located in...
disappointing paranoia, occulted labor.
March 7, 2020
“PARANOID STYLE”? In the process of uncovering family trauma, I have been diagnosed with paranoid tendencies. Now, these tendencies weren’t unwarranted...
Listen, Solarpunk !
February 22, 2020
Sometimes i feel like this newsletter should be called “practices and failures” because most of the things i have beef and disappointment with are related to...
"You think you know me"
February 8, 2020
Disclaimer : I don’t endorse and am not paid by any of the people i link to, i just wanna draw connections, not justifications.(yes, this is about...
" Internet as a prolonged mystical experience "
February 1, 2020
🌧🏔 Homesick Union Bus 🚌✊ @mutual_cascadesin many alchemical systems, poisonous substances can offer secret wisdom and power to one who trains their body to...
Info-dump day
January 24, 2020
Got taken up by the speed of life so I’m just gonna leave you with a bunch of things I’ve read/seen/felt these days, rants will wait for another day. Of...
LAYERED TECH-STYLE : SOFT MASCHINES LARPING IN YOUR AREA WANT TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION
January 16, 2020
DISCLAIMER: this is not to be a weekly newsletter. No, I won’t tell you its rhythm, because i don’t know it. Techwear has been baader meinhoffing me lately,...
WARTEMPO
January 8, 2020
[I feel the need to apologize for the rambly feel of the piece, I’m still trying to find stability here and there, here being the words and there being...
STATEMENT OF INTENT
December 31, 2019
This is me writing about living through the end times.Therefore it could have been written at any point in history.I hope from wherever you’re reading this...
[ToBeAnnounced]
December 25, 2019
Welcome to Scattered signal by me, Ospare. Just a pair of eyes with a keyboard. Sign up now so you don’t miss the first issue. Subscribe now In the meantime,...