politics is downstream from culture is downstream from material circumstance but material circumstance is more than just the distribution of income and wealth. (although God knows the distribution of income and wealth is important!) 1/

material circumstance also includes our built environment and our media, the ways they put us in contact with one another or fail to do so or worse turn our lives into a parasocial hub-and-spokes with platforms and corruptible influencers at the center. 2/

there's nothing more political than the kind of work that eg @holz-bau.bsky.social does. /fin