In “reading” these words, do you say anything? More likely, you read silently—or more accurately, subvocalize. Like microexpressions, reading, like emotion, still inheres to movement of the human body. It cannot take place solely in an incorporeal “mind,” our fantasies of such aside. We can fool ourselves into that notion only because we’ve reduced the motions involved to the most fleeting versions, giving the superficial impression that they barely happen at all.

Writing, Language & Thought from Jason Godesky on Vimeo.

• Audio on Archive.org
• YouTube (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• SlideShare. Listen to the “SlideCast,” browse, share, or download the presentation slides.

I’ve made what some people call a “slidecast,” syncing an MP3 with online slides over SlideShare. Tomorrow, I hope to finish editing the video, and will post that.

I can’t blame my year-long absence entirely on our exile, though. I had intended Anthropik to chronicle the journey of a group of people rewilding, not out of pride or because I thought we set a good example for others to emulate, but because I think we desperately need an open source revolution. We need to share our journeys with each other, so we can see what works and what doesn’t, learn from our mistakes, and take inspiration from our shared struggles. We need to know that when we fail, we don’t do it alone. We need to see the pitfalls that we might avoid. We need to share every little triumph and success we have, because they happen all too rarely.