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Much of this resonates with me as I am shifting my individual creative practices towards amplifying the collaborative/symbiotic elements with the individuals that I am blessed to work with currently.

I am starting to understand reciprocity as less of an exchange BETWEEN and more of a lens to see WITH those who I co-create.

My own 'idea culture' has absolutely been formed in isolation and detachment from others and reading this today I feel assured in moving towards a different state of ideation. Thank you!

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Wow, such a gorgeously articulated musing! I've long thought about how curiosity forms & articulates our lived "ethics". Since I was a child also, reading has been a primary way that my heartspace capacity has opened ever-further & my gratitude for aliveness deepened. Reading as a practice offering so many possible ways of knowing and being into my conscious attention, un-making, re-making & re-membering me as a human. And writing being a practice that can develop our conscious awareness of our dependencies on/reciprocities with other human brains & cultures in the formation of our own. I am so delighted whenever I see an author making conscious use of footnotes or citations within their writing, the readerly/writerly/human thought and culture lineages/rhizomes being offered up like a sweet gift to readers. I think of marginalia within found books similarly! Ross Gay does this super playfully & beautifully, and wrote a gorgeous essay about the footnote I think you'd appreciate it a lot: https://lithub.com/ross-gay-in-praise-of-foot-end-etc-notes/

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One question I have - are any of the tools you use for the PKM practice you mention here able to show information visually as rhizomatic? My final year of art school I was obsessed with trying to think through how to create a way to gather and/or present information rhizomatically, as it is really how my brain has always felt it is wired. So I'd love to know if any of the tools you're using can actually show information in this distributed, reciprocal way :-) !

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I loved this, Rowen. I live in the Pacific Northwest, and I have heard a Skokomish teaching that they teach each of their children different lessons, because that way our children need one another, and share knowledge in a collective web.

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“If we are to grow as a species beyond the violence of empire, we need to listen and learn alongside each other, and teach our children how to engage in collective and relational critical thinking which is the best antidote to the poison of propaganda“ — this has been a really driving force behind my work in the last several years — alongside a parralel realization that the traditional structures and cultures of formal education institutions are really designed and enforced for the opposite.

Another thing I’m curious about is how you and others go about the process of building a sort of back catalog. I keep feeling like I need several weeks to go back through things I’ve read, scribbled, wrote over the years and put them into my PKM so that I can make the connections more fully to what came into my awareness well before I started building.

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