This series will take the form of both short notes as well as longer posts. They will typically reflect on various aspects of my past work in applying ‘new materialism’ in coal country and in Winston Salem to help historically frame-up the final book Seven Storey Garden: Memoirs of a Redeemed New Materialist. Some reflections in this Memory Lane Series will serve as a historical archive of various documents, reports, videos and written works that will be cited in the final book.
The first post (#2) of this series will be posted tomorrow, April 3 2025. It is entitled "A Case for Applied Sustainability: Why I Am Not a Marxist or a Capitalist (Part 1)" and sets the stage for a lot of the themes from both the introductory work to this project "Seven Storey Mountain: Memoirs of a Redeemed New Materialist" as well as the larger three-volume work entitled "Assembling Restoration: Living Architecture & Regenerative Design."
The overarching theme is defining a new path for an idea(L)eft that breaks away from the toxic anti-realism of the contemporary left.
The first post (#2) of this series will be posted tomorrow, April 3 2025. It is entitled "A Case for Applied Sustainability: Why I Am Not a Marxist or a Capitalist (Part 1)" and sets the stage for a lot of the themes from both the introductory work to this project "Seven Storey Mountain: Memoirs of a Redeemed New Materialist" as well as the larger three-volume work entitled "Assembling Restoration: Living Architecture & Regenerative Design."
The overarching theme is defining a new path for an idea(L)eft that breaks away from the toxic anti-realism of the contemporary left.
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