I don’t always read what I recommend in my Minimum Viable University collections on Wakelet. Does that make me a bad curator? No. I have a good idea of the tenor and compass of a piece by long practice. I oscillating between close reading and skimming and deciding if it fits my reader’s needs, but this time I am reading every scrap of information that I recommend to you…close reading it. If that doesn’t show you the level of WTF and ‘tell me more’ that the idea of personal rewilding has kindled in me then I don’t know what will. More importantly, I don’t care. Join me if you are a seeker, too.
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Thanks for your recent writings as evidence of your readings.
I have felt the need of rewilding and am understanding it more. I am bored with the ‘feed’ and the sameness of the algorithm suggestions are not satisfying. By finding new slipstreams I can keep my curiosity.. I could just stop going online, put the device away…but when I’m discovering new things it helps me look anew at other things. I need the rewilding even more when my work is intellectually very dull.
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There are some interesting tools for rewilding your slipstreams in this Wakelet, search engines mostly. It is almost as important to rewild your personal streams and threads, to un-rely on any of your go-to templates or algorithms, and to do that in a timely way so as to avoid feed-dulled days. Knowing this, you have a powerful epistemological stance and tool. I am so glad you are joining in and sharing your iconoclastic anti-bombastic periphrastic trip the light fantastic, elemental gymnastics. This article in the Wakelet is a happy how-to if you haven’t read it yet: https://forge.medium.com/9-ways-to-rewild-your-attention-d7c9334b6b90