Wow, I am SO excited about your book, Nia (if I may). I think of ownership and property all the time, so it's awesome to have another nerd in the club. (Or maybe I am joining your club?) Anyway, can't wait!
Sounds like such a great book; looking forward to reading it as you write it!
re: length: speechinminutes.com tells me that 10,000 words is about 77 minutes of audio. I listen to many podcasts of this length every week. If releasing edited versions is too much effort, is an audio recording less?
re: data as commons: I’ll probably be attending dwebcamp.org in August. I’m sure the crowd there would love to learn from you and discuss these ideas.
Jun 12, 2022·edited Jun 12, 2022Liked by Antonia Malchik
Ownership sounds like an awesome meta-lens. There are so many sweeping treatments of capitalism, or ecological crisis, or colonialism, or community, or Big Tech. But this grounds all those concerns in a concrete social institution, which every reader is intimately familiar with on both the micro and macro level. It can be approached and traced empirically (as opposed to something more amorphous like, say, individualism). I'm sure there have been plenty of books touching on ownership and equally sure that none of them have come at it from the angle you would be coming at it.
I think I mentioned this once a long time ago, but you might appreciate some of Jedediah Purdy's writing (This Land Is Our Land etc.). He's more of a legal scholar and political philosopher, but some of what he talks about seems not entirely removed from what you're describing here.
I can’t wait for the paid version Antonia. The flawless way you contextualise big philosophical questions into real world contexts is sublime. Ownership has to me a strong colonial meta narrative which I find intriguing
I could not be more delighted to see the shape of all this. Can't wait. INCLUDING CHAPTER 8, HOORAY.
>>"I’d like to make sure that the content remains something to look forward to and have time to discuss"
Short chapter excerpts around a particular sub-theme? Working like more bite-sized talking points?
I'm also thinking of how Krista Tippett does the thing with episodes of the "On Being" podcast, and wondering if you could use it somehow, where there's the entire interview as an optional downloadable episode, and also the shorter, heavily edited down 'normal episode length' interview - one for the busy masses, one for the deeper-diving, fully commited folk....
Wow, I am SO excited about your book, Nia (if I may). I think of ownership and property all the time, so it's awesome to have another nerd in the club. (Or maybe I am joining your club?) Anyway, can't wait!
Count me in as a first subscriber. I'm grateful every time you post that I found you!
Sounds like such a great book; looking forward to reading it as you write it!
re: length: speechinminutes.com tells me that 10,000 words is about 77 minutes of audio. I listen to many podcasts of this length every week. If releasing edited versions is too much effort, is an audio recording less?
re: data as commons: I’ll probably be attending dwebcamp.org in August. I’m sure the crowd there would love to learn from you and discuss these ideas.
'Malchik Time' - Productivity warping the time/space continuum.
Girl, you sure know how to fill a day!
This is gonna be pretty cool. Looking forward to it!
I'm looking forward to it, Nia, and I'll be honored to be among your first subscribers.
Nia: "I'm thinking of doing a pai — "
Me: "Here is all of my money."
Ownership sounds like an awesome meta-lens. There are so many sweeping treatments of capitalism, or ecological crisis, or colonialism, or community, or Big Tech. But this grounds all those concerns in a concrete social institution, which every reader is intimately familiar with on both the micro and macro level. It can be approached and traced empirically (as opposed to something more amorphous like, say, individualism). I'm sure there have been plenty of books touching on ownership and equally sure that none of them have come at it from the angle you would be coming at it.
I think I mentioned this once a long time ago, but you might appreciate some of Jedediah Purdy's writing (This Land Is Our Land etc.). He's more of a legal scholar and political philosopher, but some of what he talks about seems not entirely removed from what you're describing here.
I'm really excited about this and look forward to supporting you in your writing journey! Such a multi-faceted topic to explore.
I can’t wait for the paid version Antonia. The flawless way you contextualise big philosophical questions into real world contexts is sublime. Ownership has to me a strong colonial meta narrative which I find intriguing
I could not be more delighted to see the shape of all this. Can't wait. INCLUDING CHAPTER 8, HOORAY.
>>"I’d like to make sure that the content remains something to look forward to and have time to discuss"
Short chapter excerpts around a particular sub-theme? Working like more bite-sized talking points?
I'm also thinking of how Krista Tippett does the thing with episodes of the "On Being" podcast, and wondering if you could use it somehow, where there's the entire interview as an optional downloadable episode, and also the shorter, heavily edited down 'normal episode length' interview - one for the busy masses, one for the deeper-diving, fully commited folk....
This is a super relevant question that no one asks - thank you...