The Armchair Collective
turning scholarship into wisdom we can use.
About the project
armchair
noun
thing one sits in for relaxing and thoughtful activity;
collective
adj., noun
of, or relating to a group of individuals;
Curated
Curated
betterment
Project Petrichor
gratification
The nuance in Maslow's Hierarchy
connection
The true meaning of family ties
On attraction and love
spiritual architecture
Female zealots
States of Mind
Successful Prophets
somatic architecture
The predictability of humans
Eating well
Teenage brains aren't undeveloped, they're just doing something else
digital architecture
Creating a digital home for our digital selves
wealth architecture
From Zero
The latest
Articles
Project Petrichor
The Millennium Myth
From Zero
Server 102: Access Everywhere
Server 101: A Digital Foundation
Marginalia
Washington’s policy community has become, if not more friendly to, then at least more cognizant of the arguments for restraint in U.S. foreign policy. But it has not yet started to grapple effectively with the America First criticism of liberal internationalism ... McMaster’s dark vision of a world where “competition” and threat are endless could well open the door for an increasingly illiberal, unilateral, and militaristic U.S. foreign policy
On McMaster's new memoir. Obscured by Trump's less coherent public positions, it looks like the conservative 'isolationist' bent is taking on an increasingly hawkish character. Possibly a concern, given Biden's position as an 'orthodox' Democrat, heir to the so-called Clinton Doctrine.
democracy need not be the teleological destiny of all countries. Means of stoking it from outside are often reckless (war) or patchily effective (sanctions). And if the west could not entrench freedom as the global standard when it was ascendant, it is hardly likely to as the balance of world power tilts increasingly eastward.
On the decline of global democracy since the misleading 'boom' following the Cold War.
at once an ethical retreat and an opportunity to recalibrate the economy ... ethics and exchange were logically linked, though the governing principle was reciprocity, not accumulation
Anthropological case study for the lockdown as a 'spiritual and economic reset' from an Indonesian community who would voluntarily retreat every couple of years. Similar ideas to this more modern-focused take
Changelog
Grouse new font and colour palette. Reorganised collections around the actual collections.
Published project petrichor as an article. Time to start arranging this site around what it's arranged around.
New article on the myth of the millennium.