A sane network would center local place as the incubator of politics

Evidence

This social network would have no reason to keep us from “logging off.” It would respect our need for solitude as much as the fact that we are humans with bodies that exist in physical space and must still encounter each other there. It would rebuild the context we have lost. Most of all, this social network would rehabilitate the role of time and location in our everyday consciousness. It would offer the places where we are right now as the incubation spaces for the empathy, responsibility, and political innovation that can be useful not just here, but everywhere. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 606

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘places where we are right now as incubation spaces’ is the bioregionalist thread the reader wants to weigh against the art-history and Deep Listening threads.
• QUESTION: Is localism here proposed as sufficient for political change, or only a seed?