Patterns: tools

Playhouse

let’s build a playhouse a structure with strong supports and trampolines with swings and long ladders where we can climb and dance let’s build a playhouse with lots of layers so we can look at each other from dizzying depths and surprising heights let’s build a playhouse where you’re a pirate and i’m a princess

Tools: a clarification

There seems to be a misunderstanding here.  Drugs are tools, technologies of the self, material objects that allow individuals to work on their bodies and minds in certain ways.  Of course, they haven’t always been seen in this way, and they certainly haven’t always been available to the degree or in the same way as

Resistance, strategy, and personal technologies

Where there is power, there is resistance.  Is this a death sentence for resistance, an eternal guarantee for power, or something else entirely? Attacks on the idea that power and resistance always go together seem to have come from all sides.  There are those who have attacked the histories that claim to show the ability