Weekly Inchoate No. 5
Summarizing the week's posts -- water, farmers, Climate Leviathan (the book), index of resources
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This week’s posts dove into the water, tackled the Climate Leviathan book (finally!), announced a new publishing schedule (three weeks on, one week off), and shared a resource index from the past few months.
Have a good weekend and see you in a week!
From the Ground
The State of Water A few years ago, I watched a remarkable documentary on Netflix about the world’s water supply, Brave Blue World. It was sponsored by water.org, Matt Damon’s organization. I see they are coming out with a new film in 2024. I won’t miss it; it was that good!
Climate Leviathan
For weeks (!) I’ve been leading up to writing about this book, Climate Leviathan, by Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann published in 2018. Ultimately it should be read in concert not only with John Gray’s New Leviathans, but also Hobbes’ original Leviathan
New Publishing Schedule
Hi all! Thanks for wading through yesterday’s post on the book Climate Leviathan (if you read it, or intend to read at some point). It was tough to write, and I covered too much. At some point I’ll do a rewrite. Sometimes, getting things down on paper — at all — in a semi-organized format, is a necessary first step to working it out better next time. No…
Water.org
Earlier this week I featured Matt Damon’s charity, water.org, as part of three things going on “from the ground.” Today for Resource Friday (a day early on Thursday!) I want to feature this worthy organization in its own right. First, Check it Out Clean water for all is not a problem of technology. It’s a problem of funding. Here is what water.org is doin…
Index No. 1 (Resources)
Next week starts the Daily Inchoate’s new publishing schedule: three weeks on, one week off, with my first week off! Before leaving you alone each break, I’ll try to index a few things from previous posts. I’ll do some stock-taking, and you get some (re-)reading options.