“Maybe what we’re looking for is fewer robot vacuum cleaners and more compost toilets.”We stumble into a new series of The Great Humbling with an episode that revolves around s**t and technology. This is also our first video episode, so you can watch our beardy faces on Substack or YouTube.Shownotes* Ed’s been reading <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey_Wrench_Gang">The Monkey Wrench Gang</a> by Edward Abbey, alongside <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Blow_Up_a_Pipeline#:~:text=How%20to%20Blow%20Up%20a%20Pipeline%3A%20Learning%20to%20Fight%20in,%22climate%20fatalism%22%20outside%20it.">How to Blow Up a Pipeline</a> by Andreas Malm.* Also Andrei Kirkov’s <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_the_Penguin">Death and the Penguin</a>.* Dougald talks about Em Strang’s novel, Quinn. Also her newly launched Substack, <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/@emstrang/posts">Emerging Hermit</a> – and especially the <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/@emstrang/p-150134748">‘Our Violent Men’</a> series that she is embarking on.* Ed talks about Simeon Morris’s one-man show, <a target="_blank" href="https://simeonmorris.co.uk/">Square Peg</a>.* Dougald introduces a little book called <a target="_blank" href="https://www.as-is-press.com/notes-on-nothing">Notes on Nothing</a> by Anonymous.* Also an episode of the Spiritual Teachers podcast called <a target="_blank" href="https://www.spiritualteachers.org/podcast/hillbilly-sutra/">The Hillbilly Sutra</a>, a one-off telling of the story of a Nashville banjo player who had a similar experience – and who, despite the podcast’s title, has no interest in selling himself as a spiritual teacher.* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.kidspot.com.au/parenting/real-life/in-the-news/my-irobot-vacuum-found-dog-poo-and-almost-created-world-war-iii/news-story/8b8bf77ec0bc42663d48448b6be8064c">‘My iRobot vacuum found dog poo and almost created World War III’</a>* Cory Doctorow’s <a target="_blank" href="https://doctorow.medium.com/social-quitting-1ce85b67b456">original post about “enshittification”</a>.* Paul Virilio’s observation that every new technology brings into being a new kind of accident can be found in <a target="_blank" href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781570270840/politics-of-the-very-worst/">The Politics of the Very Worst</a>.* Ed talks about meeting <a target="_blank" href="https://jessgroopman.com/">Jess Groopman</a> of the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.regentech.co/">Regenerative Technology Project</a>.* Dougald remembers the vacuum cleaner scene in the first episode of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1DqarK4NlA&list=PLlk_PWInh5CazwFB42splo5vvMBXmtdfc">Meet the Natives</a>, the 2007 documentary series in which a group of men from a village in Vanuatu came on an anthropological expedition to study the three tribes of the British Isles: the middle class, the working class and the upper class.* Ed introduces us to the art collective <a target="_blank" href="https://marshmallowlaserfeast.com/">Marshmallow Laser Feast</a> and we talk about trickster ways of using technology.* Marvin Kranzberg’s <a target="_blank" href="https://jesperbalslev.dk/kranzbergs-six-laws-of-technology/">Laws of Technology</a>.* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.homewardbound.org/p/the-great-humbling-s5e6-the-low-agreements">The episode from Season 5</a> when we talked about Neto Leão’s idea of the “low agreements”.* Carl Jung did indeed have <a target="_blank" href="https://jungiancenter.org/jungs-personal-religious-history/">a vision of a giant turd landing on Basel Cathedral</a>.Thanks for listening, sharing and getting in touch! Look out for <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/1997022-dougald-hine">Dougald Hine</a>’s <a target="_blank" href="https://dougald.nu/events/">public events in London next week</a> – and <a target="_blank" href="https://aschoolcalledhome.org/autumn-series-2024">a new five-week online series with a school called HOME</a>, starting on 6 & 7 November. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.homewardbound.org?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">www.homewardbound.org</a>

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