FYI #77
The unexpected gift economies thriving online, by Kelly Pendergrast and Anna Pendergrast, via New_ Public
Michelle de Kretser’s 2025 Stella Prize acceptance speech… ‘We have two weapons that the powerful dread: words and the truth. That’s why truthful speech is being closed down, and why it’s essential to resist silence.’
A Unique Portfolio of Hilma af Klint’s Botanical Drawings Communes with Nature’s Spiritual Side, via Colossal
Rachel Botsman’s ‘Roots of Trust’, part of the London Design Biennale 2025. Botsman also has a Kickstarter attached to the project.
‘Prime Minister’, soon to be released documentary about former NZ PM Jacinda Ardern
now it springs up!, Sara Hendren on prototyping… ‘The poetry of prototyping is the vulnerable attempt, the tangible trying.’
Two podcast conversations with writer / editor Graydon Carter (who has a new memoir out).. with Bella Freud on Fashion Neurosis and Where It’s At with Jefferson Hack
Cate Blanchett on Ruthie’s Table 4
Vauhini Vara’s “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age”, on the LA Review of Books podcast
A family that makes art together... by Courtney Martin
Tom Shaw reclaims cricket from stereotypes and sensationalism with grounded sports photography, via It’s Nice That
The literary underground is teeming with life right now, by Alexis Madrigal .. ‘So right now, I want to read all my people here in the Bay doing all their new things in our underground and radical publishing traditions. I want to feel them respond to our particular crises. And I also want to read people very far from here, geographically and culturally, but who are facing a subset of the same problems. This is my intuition: the answers to our problems don’t lie (solely) in national politics or in some imagined community like an American state. It’s you and me here on the street, in the cafe, at the book shop, and the you and mes in Mexico City and in Norway and in Seoul.’
I went to two lovely events this weekend, Salon of Reflections, created by Alex McAlpin and Felixe Rives, and the Sydney launch of Viaje a Los Amuletos—a new book by Guatemalan furniture designers Agnes Studio, published by Lindsay Magazine.