December 2021 Readings The Disposessed - Ursela Le Guin . Normal People - Sally Rooney . Beautiful World Where Are You? - Sally Rooney . Monkey Grip - Helen Garner

November Readings Brave New World - Aldous Huxley . Aldous Huxley and Utopia (Prisms) - Theadore W.Adorno . See What You Made Me Do - Jess Hill Brave New World - Aldoux Huxley “Community, Identity, and Stability” this is the Brave New World’s answer to the radical bourgeois revolution, and only very few in the New World understand this deliciously illegal reference. The New World is some arrangement of highly centralised State Capitalism....

October Readings The Martian - Andy Weir Mark Watney strikes readers as quite ordinary. We’re in his head, and it’s like our own, or rather his thoughts are similar to what we might share aloud with an ironic tone. I didn’t realize until recently most astronauts - at least American astronauts, are in fact ordinary people. A Netflix documentary I watched recently follows a dad as he prepares for a launch, he was previously in the air force....

I’m a “DevOps”/Cloud Platform Engineer. I like casual birdwatching in my local wetlands, and enjoy cooking, reading and swimming. I studied history at Monash and have an interest in historical modes of production and transitory modes of production in particular. I worked as a swimming instructor previously but re-skilled as a software engineer following a spinal injury. I am interested in projects, communities and programs that increase accessibility in tech, including how we work in tech....