Fiona Tribe
@fionatribe.bsky.social
Cultural Anthropologist | Workplace Strategist | Material Culturist | Writer | Potter | into architecture, cultural literacy and Stuff | Matter matters | Wurundjeri land/Melbourne | whiteowl.net.au
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Fiona Tribe
@fionatribe.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Take me to your leader — WhiteOwl
Sitting quietly on a patio is a woman. She is making annatto - the red dye used to decorate the face and body during village ceremonies. Except there is no ceremony today. To her the day simply felt l...
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Take me to your leader: human becomings, non-Euclidean org design and lawn mowing.
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When a world dies, much dies alongside it: ways of thinking, ways of building, ways of living. @robrubsam.bsky.social writes on Jenny Erpenbeck’s new essay collection, “Things That Disappear.”
Idle Things | Robert Rubsam
In “Things That Disappear,” Jenny Erpenbeck grapples with ruins, revealing the virtue of unproductive places and idle things.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
When a world dies, much dies alongside it: ways of thinking, ways of building, ways of living. @robrubsam.bsky.social writes on Jenny Erpenbeck’s new essay collection, “Things That Disappear.”
“First it was Myspace. Every once in a while a case would have something to do with that. Over the years, there was no case that didn’t have Facebook or Instagram or something as a part of the problem. The internet is like an emotional AK47 for your romance.” ~ Judge Lynn Toler on divorce
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
“First it was Myspace. Every once in a while a case would have something to do with that. Over the years, there was no case that didn’t have Facebook or Instagram or something as a part of the problem. The internet is like an emotional AK47 for your romance.” ~ Judge Lynn Toler on divorce
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Sea creatures inform sweeping bamboo roofs of Intaaya Retreat in Indonesia: www.dezeen.com/2025/11/09/intaaya-retreat-pablo-luna-studio/
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Sea creatures inform sweeping bamboo roofs of Intaaya Retreat in Indonesia: www.dezeen.com/2025/11/09/intaaya-retreat-pablo-luna-studio/
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This is also a good way to think about "information".
“… any ‘sense of place’ I have is a combination of what I know to be true, what I’ve lived, as well as the things I’ve been told by others, whether true or not.” ~ Cameron Downey
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is also a good way to think about "information".
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She walked through the door, dumped her bag at her feet, and hung her work face on the hook in the hall.
November 19, 2024 at 8:30 PM
She walked through the door, dumped her bag at her feet, and hung her work face on the hook in the hall.
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I learned today that my facial expressions speak very clearly on my behalf.
I’ve completely lost my voice. The expression on people’s faces when learning this is, quite frankly, insulting.
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I learned today that my facial expressions speak very clearly on my behalf.
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I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future
When you’ve spent your whole adult life working in and around book publishing you get used to hearing that people don’t read anymore and that the industry is on its last legs. There is always a cri…
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November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
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Delicate moments
all the more beautiful for
being so fleeting.
all the more beautiful for
being so fleeting.
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Delicate moments
all the more beautiful for
being so fleeting.
all the more beautiful for
being so fleeting.
Hey, you there — you who borrowed all the Clarice Lispector books from the library. Hurry up and read them.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Hey, you there — you who borrowed all the Clarice Lispector books from the library. Hurry up and read them.
There can be a comfort found in mutual hostility not found in less consistent or unpredictable relationships.
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
There can be a comfort found in mutual hostility not found in less consistent or unpredictable relationships.
“As soon as a [scientific] discovery is made, an application is sought. Capital becomes interested and it enters the public domain before anyone has had a chance to reckon all the consequences."~ Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
“As soon as a [scientific] discovery is made, an application is sought. Capital becomes interested and it enters the public domain before anyone has had a chance to reckon all the consequences."~ Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society
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To change the system from within is to continually balance on a tightrope of the internal and the external — of simultaneously conforming and rebelling. www.whiteowl.net.au/blog/2019/2/...
Poetry at the water cooler — WhiteOwl
Aziza is a Bedouin woman. A member of the Awlad ‘Ali tribe living on the northern edge of the Egyptian Western Desert. The Bedouin are a semi-nomadic people. Theirs is a patriarchal system born of, an...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
To change the system from within is to continually balance on a tightrope of the internal and the external — of simultaneously conforming and rebelling. www.whiteowl.net.au/blog/2019/2/...
To express pro-system sentiment publicly, and anti-system sentiment privately, is not to be inauthentic, but to make a strategic choice from the limited discourses you have available to you in a certain place at a certain time.
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
To express pro-system sentiment publicly, and anti-system sentiment privately, is not to be inauthentic, but to make a strategic choice from the limited discourses you have available to you in a certain place at a certain time.
My neighbour’s party last night was 99% Lionel Ritchie.
November 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
My neighbour’s party last night was 99% Lionel Ritchie.
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Why? Why? Why? Why? ~ A four year old. Also, me lazy researching.
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Why? Why? Why? Why? ~ A four year old. Also, me lazy researching.
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I don’t often read in public. I’m a private reader.
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I don’t often read in public. I’m a private reader.
This is why our experience of a place begins way before we … experience it.
“… any ‘sense of place’ I have is a combination of what I know to be true, what I’ve lived, as well as the things I’ve been told by others, whether true or not.” ~ Cameron Downey
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 AM
This is why our experience of a place begins way before we … experience it.
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Roger Fritz, 1954
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Roger Fritz, 1954
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Throwback to the cabin design when I was just going to paint and sell…
*not to any kind of scale
*not to any kind of scale
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Throwback to the cabin design when I was just going to paint and sell…
*not to any kind of scale
*not to any kind of scale
What was/is a rubbish product marketed well?
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
What was/is a rubbish product marketed well?