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Dan Nott

@dan-nott.bsky.social

Making art and drawing Hidden Systems. teaching comics studies, thinking about democracy, infrastructure, ecology

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Deb Chachra@debcha.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is a really...thing-focused perspective. I wrote about exactly this in my book HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS -- the quotidian luxury of our homes compared to the past -- and I still think the real change is our *collective* infrastructural systems for electricity, water, communications, and more.

Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · last mo.

This is a really beautiful website by @jdworkin.bsky.social on the everyday household items that were once only dreamt about – a music player, nightlight, family photos, clean water, ice, spices, and more. 10/10 would recommend exploring it! ordinaryabundance.com

Dan Nott@dan-nott.bsky.social · 2w ago

Deep dive into this bizarre controversy. I appreciate the close attention involved in this piece and it's more general conclusion: "But who even cares about facts or evidence when you’ve got a good grievance fantasy to ride? Just join the pile-on. It’s a lot easier than reading books."

thene@thene.bsky.social · 2w ago

out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...

Dan Nott@dan-nott.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I agree! There's interesting questions here. A lot of nonfiction comics are works of synthesis that can reach a popular audience. How do we best center original research and the people who do it? And where in a comic does that attribution belong?

Gale Galligan@galegalligan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

bsky.app/profile/comi... A useful read. It doesn’t seem like Cleves tried to resolve this privately first; if that’s the case, I really wish she had. I also wish there was space to talk about things in a more thoughtful way. It feels like there’s a lot for cartoonists to learn from here.

Dan Nott@dan-nott.bsky.social · 2mo ago

can confirm Tillie talked about the importance of Cleves' amazing original research multiple times during our public conversation. In the first paragraph of Tillie's process page on her site, she says it would be impossible to overstate the importance of her work & untangles what was used where.

Cuyler Keating@cuylerkeating.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sticking my nose into this to say that having heard Tillie speak publicly about the book multiple times, she openly acknowledges that Cleves' biography was a foundational text, and has dedicated an entire website www.charityandsylvia.com to a bibliography citing hers and Cleves' research.

Ingrid Burrington@lifewinning.com · 3mo ago

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Kelsey Atherton@atherton.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This was, ultimately, the point of substack: throw money at reactionary bloggers, claim that this is a new media and not just fissioning off the clicky bits from legacy publications, then let the price of media giants drop enough for all the worst people to buy them up and install their media pets.

Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 11mo ago

lol substack's cofounder has a new post claiming the sale of weiss' grievance blog—which substack heavily promoted & shares an investor w (technofash goob marc andreessen)—proves the platform offers "an immense opportunity for ambitious new media founders to build a new generation of institutions."

Deb Chachra@debcha.bsky.social · last yr.

And the reason why I keep banging on about it is because the politics we get if more of us understand this technological shift and its implications is a hell of a lot better than what we get if we think that we have to protect ourselves from privation and suffering, even if it means dooming others.

Deb Chachra@debcha.bsky.social · last yr.

My level of optimism or pessimism about whether any particular group of humans will get their act together and actually do it varies by the day. But that it’s now physically and technologically possible to transition to renewables and to use that energy to close materials loops isn’t in doubt.