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Critical Futures

For a brief period of time in late 2010 and early 2011, I hosted the main thrust of my regular blogging efforts on "criticalfutures.com" domain before moving that project back into this wiki. The pages critical-futures and archive are artifacts of this time period and the archives that I was trying build for that site.

Original Wikish

Previously this wiki was an adjunct site to a blog that I hosted separately on this domain. This page serves as an archive of what came before.

This is the original index page for this wiki. For archival and other purposes.

Current Projects

alaric would love to see some ?git for writers tips and inspirations he can point less-technical folks to!

The Contra Dancer Purity Test, is silliness, but delightful silliness.

Work on the curation of tychoish.com ?archives.

About Wikish / Intentions

I've been setting up wikis for all manner of things: the cyborg institute, the queer science fiction interest group, a project for work, another fiction related project, and so forth. I didn't have one of my own.

When I was setting this up, and showing off the initial mock ups of the wiki, people asked "so what's it for." I didn't have a great answer, "Wiki things," I said--mostly in jest--without inspiring much excitement in either myself or the friends who might be interested in contributing. The truth is that there are a number of great benefits to having a personal wiki. The ones that spring to mind immediately are:

• Fiction: A while back I attempted to post fiction to a website (under the "Critical Futures" banner.) It didn't work out, but I'd like to publish that content. A wiki, particularly one like this seems--at the moment--like the perfect venue for this kind of stuff.

• Archives: At the moment, the Critical Futures archive are all generated by me, by hand, in these "collections," based on common topics and themes. While this is fine, I think it makes more sense to have this content be publicly editable.

• Email Content: I find messages sent to groups of people with lengthy text sort of frustrating. Better, I think, to write a page in a wiki, and pass around a link to a page in the wiki using IRC or IM (or even with email), and then go from there.

While I'm (quasi)actively working on amending the system I use to build tychoish.com, another unfortunate truth is that rebuilding tychoish.com takes about 3 minutes (because of the size of the site) and is somewhat cumbersome for small changes. While I'm not going to start "blogging" in the wiki, I do think that having a quicker way to push content out to the world in this wiki is something that I'm very much looking forward.

Also feel free to edit this. Have at!

Cheers,

-- tychoish