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With all this talk of air conditioning today, my mind is on vernacular architecture. Before hegemony fucked the world up big time, it used to be very obvious what environment a given building was designed for and built within, even if it was in a photograph being looked at halfway across the world, or a painting from a land otherwise unknown to the viewer.

You have to have certain different roofs if there's heavy snowfall, sticky ice, or temperate winters; you get different awnings and gutters if summers are rainy or humid or dry; windows are shaped by not only the frequency of windy days, but by either the need to keep that wind out as a hazard to furniture and lung health or by the need to invite that wind in as a relief from the overall weather. There's literally ways to add ducts at the roofline to create breezes inside a building that aren't outside it. You can refrigerate two story pantry buildings that way! Just the existence of a porch tells a lot about the length of climate cycles when it's done without the hubris of wired fans, space heaters, and hydraulic shutters.

In the "poorest" parts of the world (I'll hold my tongue on the nature of wealth and what we count as wealth) many of these techniques are not lost - even the poorest parts in the richest nations. But they are disincentivized, even made illegal, in favor of the profit-making mechanical and electronic solutions from hegemony. We're coming up on a point where that needs to not only be reversed, but built upon. New weather is going to demand new vernacular.

Which is itself a worrying tragedy given how polluting demolition and building construction actually is, even with more sustainable traditional techniques. There's a lot of dwellings (and a lot more other kinds of building) that were built wrong completely on purpose, to achieve an aesthetic cohesion that has more to do with suppressing cost than it has to do with sheltering people.

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job hunting gothic

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  • The job posting looks like a great fit. You have the skills listed, and the responsibilities are relevant to what you would like to do. The requirements section asks for a PhD in a seemingly unrelated field. It pays minimum wage.

  • You upload your résumé to the website. An error message appears, informing you that only the following file types are supported: .rtf, .doc, .docx and .pdf. Your file is one of the document types. You try the upload again. An error message appears, informing you that files must be under 50KB. You reduce the file size. The first error message appears again. 

  • Your résumé file is finally accepted to the website. You continue to the next page, where you are cheerfully requested to manually enter all of your work and education experience. If you are lucky, a machine has helpfully used the résumé file you uploaded to autofill all fields for you. They are all wrong.

  • You send in fifty job applications in less than a month. You wait patiently for replies. When none come, you look for contact information to follow up with them. There is no information available. You wonder if the job ever existed in the first place.

  • You receive an email from someone who saw your profile on a jobsite and wants to offer you a job stuffing envelopes. You have a master’s degree.

  • Two months in, you have not received any viable offers. You start thinking about stuffing envelopes for a living.

  • You are finally contacted by someone: they want to interview you. You do the interview. A second. A third. A fourth. You start to wonder how many levels this process goes through. They give you nothing but positive feedback. You keep doing interviews.
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