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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · May 27

Friends, check out my latest, published in AR magazine!

www.architectural-review.com/essays/outra...

Outrage: plastic (not) fantastic - The Architectural Review

Bold recycling claims deliberately distract from the disastrous ecological effects of plastic in buildings

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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · May 12

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America’s World War II “Nisei Brigade” Helped Save European Jews

The 442nd Infantry Regiment from World War II is most decorated unit in the history of the U.S. military history. In a racially segregated army, it was made up of approximately 4,500 Nisei, Japanese-A...

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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · Feb 19

Normalize the friendly footnote
(Max Liboiron, Pollution is Colonialism)

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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · Feb 18

robotsinarchitecture.org

Association for Robots in Architecture – making robots accessible to the creative industry

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architectswtr.bsky.social @architectswtr.bsky.social · Feb 17

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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · Nov 16

Wake up Babe, new #AIA Conference seminar just dropped . . . :

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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · Jan 25

"Folding in Architecture" is what the industry does like a card table when confronted with moral decisions.

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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · Jan 19

. . . Witness the ethos, aesthetic, politics, and tactics of camper van culture. Lefties visit nature to disengage. They hike. MAGAs vacation in RVs bedecked with oversized flags, jacking into national parks and global satellites.

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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · Jan 19

The clip-on, plug-in promise of #Archigram & the #Metabolists didn't degrade into the provisionality & disposability of #junkspace. It's been taken up by #MAGA. Witness its ability, a few years back, to whip up an armada of pleasure boats, or convoy of trucks. . .

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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · Jan 9

[Wife:] Did you remember to [something I did not remember to do]?

mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · Jan 3

Burn it down.

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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · Dec 4

*Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown* a crucial new book by Andres Malm and @wimcarton.bsky.social is a devastating takedown of mainstream climate policy. See my review here:
#Climate #Overshoot

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Petro-Capitalist Status Quo - Public Seminar

Martin Weiner reviews Andres Malm and Martin Weiner's new book, Overshoot, and discusses how the world has mostly thrown in the towel on enforcing global warming temperature thresholds.

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Tim Smedley @timsmedley.bsky.social · Dec 1

And there we have it, folks. Saudi Arabia, Russia & Kuwait successfully block plastic production curbs.

“If we address plastic pollution, there should be no problem with producing plastics,” said Saudi delegate. “The problem is pollution itself, not plastics.”

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/c...

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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · Dec 1

Missed opp if you ask me. The #GSAPP installation should have been a Macy's parade balloon.

"Look kids it's "NoDoze, the architecture school cloud!"
#architecture

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Cloud Pavilion - Columbia GSAPP

Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Nov 26

Okay, I have to do a thread on this pretty amazing article because it is just seriously chockers with eye-opening stats about 'direct air capture' - ie, sucking up air and trying to remove carbon dioxide from it

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Reality check on technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the air

An MIT Energy Initiative study finds many climate-stabilization plans are based on questionable assumptions about the future cost and deployment of “direct air capture” and therefore may not bring abo...

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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · Nov 19

In Fight Club, Tyler Durden makes his living selling luxury soaps made from adipose he steals from liposuction clinics. His clients & the liposuction clinic's clients are the same. "Literally," he says, he "sells them back their own fat asses."

In the #circular_economy . . .

mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · Nov 19

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The US no longer supports capping plastic production in UN treaty

Environmental advocates understand the announcement as a reversal, calling it “absolutely devastating.”

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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · Nov 17

Moe, K. (2014). Insulating Modernism: Isolated and Non-isolated Thermodynamics in Architecture. Germany: Walter de Gruyter GmbH.

mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · Nov 15

Crucial reporting by Ever Osorio:
Mexico’s First Woman President Inherits a Crisis of Femicide publicseminar.org/2024/11/mexi... via @PublicSeminar

Mexico’s First Woman President Inherits a Crisis of Femicide - Public Seminar

Ever Osorio analyzes Claudia Sheinbaum's historic victory as Mexico’s first woman president amid a femicide crisis, and the challenges that remain in tackling gender violence.

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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · Nov 14

via Michael Roberts blog 5/12/17:
#Marx #Capital_Volume_3

mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · Nov 16

via Michael Roberts blog 5/12/17:

mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · Nov 13

Andres Malm and Wim Carton's crucial new book, Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown is a devastating takedown of mainstream climate policy. See my review here:
#Climate #Overshoot
publicseminar.org/2024/11/over...

Petro-Capitalist Status Quo - Public Seminar

Martin Weiner reviews Andres Malm and Martin Weiner's new book, Overshoot, and discusses how the world has mostly thrown in the towel on enforcing global warming temperature thresholds.

publicseminar.org

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mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social @mhotmessgandhi.bsky.social · Nov 16

Andres Malm and Wim Carton's crucial new book, Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown is a devastating takedown of mainstream climate policy. See my review here:
#Climate #Overshoot
https://publicseminar.org/2024/11/overshoot-review/

Petro-Capitalist Status Quo - Public Seminar

Martin Weiner reviews Andres Malm and Martin Weiner's new...

publicseminar.org