CHANNELS | Idea playlists
I joined are.na in September 2024 as part of my commitment to spend more time outside of algorithm-curated corporate walled gardens— are.na has been described as "playlists for ideas", and a "toolkit for assembling new worlds from the scraps of the old." Each channel is a mix of text boxes, images, videos, pdfs, and links. I use my account to make deep dive playlists and storyboards for drafts I am working on.
STAGE 🟪 Infodumps that are ready to go— structured as mini presentations or as references and accompaniments to other transmissions I put out there.
- on casting our attention outside the algorithm, a companion channel for this post
- COME MAKE ZINES, why you should, inspiration and tools to start
- a death portrait of iXXXXl, the zionist settler ethnostate
- admiring bee communities, how they communicate and make healing
- distortion as authenticity, a response to intense surveillance and deepfake culture
- Afro-Brazilian faith traditions, and how the enslaved maintained and influenced connections to the divine
BACKSTAGE 🟨 themed collections, more so a pool of vibes rather than structured show-and-tells.
- the fashion of the natural and wild, because I love collecting tree photos
- SOFT soft vibes
- Pls Do Find something, a little trove of downloadable treasures
- Molly at the rave, on the ecstasy of the occupation. A deep dive into the connection between MDMA, shitty EDM raves, and "isrXXli real estate"
- 1999 multiplex, film stills from movies that came out in 1999
- convey even 1 verse, for Qur'an verses that I want to find again
- legacy of Fanon (1925-1961), the anticolonial Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist and political philosopher from the French colony of Martinique whose work in Algerian resistance influenced liberation movements everywhere
- recognising the stranger, a response to reading Isabella Hammad's book of the same name
- HERE, SMALL WONDERS a charged and wild magic box
- world eaters and the consumption of planetary life and joy
- BLUEPRINTS for control and coercion for tools how to recognise and name abuse
🟪 STAGE
Infodumps that are ready to go— structured as mini presentations or as references and accompaniments to other transmissions I put out there.
ISRAELLY OVER
🟪 ethnostate death portrait | Are.na
the occupying entity has only succeeded in using every resource sent to them on …ments some of the colonial design and consequent destruction of their reputation
ATTENTION OUTSIDE ALGO
🟪 attention outside of the algorithm | Are.na
What we really need is outside of the algorithm (https://liyyusof.com/less-algo-…algorithm-curated spaces and return it to human curation, moderation, and action
FACE OFF
🟪 distortion as authenticity | Are.na
As 2020s surveillance culture intensifies and deepfakes weaponised against women…pressing authencity with masks, veils, face and shape distortions of all kinds.
MAKE A ZINE
🟪 GET IN, WE MAKING ZINES | Are.na
BEES ARE SO COOL
🟪 inspired bees make healing 🐝 | Are.na
Because the Beloved inspired the bees, we have to think about how their processe…nd lives can help us learn about healing ourselves. (after the Qur’an, 16:68-69)
AFROBRAZILIAN FAITH
🟪 afro-brazilian faith | Are.na
Since October 2024. Blossomed when following a river about the ways the enslaved maintained and influenced connections with the Divine until today
🟨 BACKSTAGE
Themed collections, more so a pool of vibes rather than structured show-and-tells:
PLS DO FIND SOMETHING
🟪 PDFs - PLS DO FIND something | Are.na
🍯 “there’s probably a pdf out there that would change your whole life” (https://twitter.com/essenaccount/status/1847649534312157693) (19 October 2024)
QURAN VERSES
🟨 convey even 1 verse | Are.na
I begin by invoking the Beloved, gracious and compassionate, my refuge from supremacy, arrogance, oppression.
MOLLY AT THE RAVE
🟨 Molly at the rave | Are.na
RECOGNISING THE STRANGER
🟨 recognising the stranger | Are.na
“that’s me”
LEGACY OF FANON
🟨 legacy of Fanon | Are.na
AI IS THE BIG BAD
🟨 ‘AI’ is the Big Bad | Are.na
“AI” is the Big Bad Evil Guy— there is probably no bigger Big Bad in our contemporary capitalist times
SOFT
🟨 SOFT | Are.na
SMALL WONDERS
🟨 HERE, SMALL WONDERS | Are.na
“willst du staunen? hier, kleine wunder!”
WORLD EATERS
🟨 world-eaters | Are.na
1999 MULTIPLEX
🟨 1999 multiplex | Are.na
“What a mood 1999 was for a budding gender failure.” (https://liyyusof.com/on-sharing-a-life-2020-2022/)
COERCION CONTROL BLUEPRINTS
🟨 BLUEPRINTS for control and coercion | Are.na
Accompaniment resource channel for This is the blueprint all abusers use (https://liyyusof.com/abuser-blueprint/)
THE FASHION OF THE NATURAL AND WILD
🟨 the fashion of the natural and wild | Are.na
