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Artifacts. Stuff. The material world, especially as shaped by humans into what is useful for them.

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Books (5)
Canonical Works (2)
Readings (8)
Audio/Video (19)
Related Topics (5)

Books (5)

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964) – Marshall McLuhan

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects (2012)

Museum of Nonhumanity (2015) – Laura Gustafsson and Terike Haapoja

The Design of Everyday Things (1988) – Don Norman

The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart (2023) – Astra Taylor

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Canonical Works (2)

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SN 1.41 Āditta Sutta: Ablaze (2000)

When one’s house is ablaze
The vessel taken out
Is the one that is useful,
Not the one left burnt inside.

1 page
Online pdf

See also:

AN 5.147: Gifts of a Bad Person (2018)

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Readings (8)

Should Trees Have Standing: Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects (1972) – Christopher D. Stone

Caring for the Social (in Museums) (2022) – Haidy Geismar

The Aura of Buddhist Material Objects in the Age of Mass-Production (2019) – Trine Brox

Ordinary Objects (2011) – Daniel Z. Korman

In Praise of Shadows (1933) – Junichiro Tanizaki

Dharma Devices, Non-Hermeneutical Libraries, and Robot-Monks : Prayer Machines in Japanese Buddhism (2018) – Fabio Rambelli

The Laughing Buddha: Doing business and the art of motivation (2012) – Ang Sik Liong and Low Kim Cheng Patrick

Santuṭṭhi (2006) – Bhikkhu Anālayo

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Audio/Video (19)

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Learning to Listen to the Voices Only You Hear (2022) – Ruth Ozeki and Ezra Klein

⭐ Recommended

… in this state of not knowing, curiosity and engagement with the world arises. And that engagement, that curiosity is intimate and very, very alive.

61 min
Online
Gain and Loss (2020) – Vietnam Television

25 min
YouTube
Antique Ox-Tongue Iron Restoration (Video) (2020) – my mechanics

24 min
YouTube
How to Mine Opal Gems in the Outback (2016) – Smarter Every Day

13 min
YouTube
Swimming in the Rain (2021) – Chana Bloch and Tracy K. Smith

⭐ Recommended

Swaddled and sleeved in water,
I dive to the rocky bottom and rise

5 min
Online

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Guard our Senses and Live a Happier Life (2016) – Ven Hong Ci

Questions for the Technologies We Use (2021) – Michael Sacasas and Ezra Klein

The Surprising History—and Current Dilemma—of Tuberculosis (2024) – John Green

The History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (2020) – Raj Patel

The Lows of High-Tech (2021) – Vivian Le

George Orwell’s Love of Nature (2021) – Rebecca Solnit

Nepal: The Great Plunder (2018) – Steve Chao

Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas (2022) – Holly Walters

Mannequin Pixie Dream Girl (2019) – Mitchell Johnson and Roman Mars

Mine! (2021) – Roman Mars, Michael Heller, and Jim Salzman

In the Editing Room (2022) – Ruth Ozeki

What to Expect (2021) – Katie Manning and Pádraig Ó Tuama

Slow Drag with Branches of Pine (2022) – Ama Codjoe and Ada Limón

99 Percent Invisible (Podcast) (Series) – Roman Mars

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