Media - Nullrouted Space

2024-05-112026-03-08

Review: The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

A 4:3 crop of the cover of The Mushroom At The End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.

What do you do when your world starts to fall apart? I go for a walk, and if I’m really lucky, I find mushrooms. Mushrooms pull me back into my senses, not just–like flowers–through their riotous colors and smells but because they pop up unexpectedly, reminding me of the good fortune of just happening to be there. Then I know that there are still pleasures amidst the terrors of indeterminacy.
page 1, Prologue Autumn Aroma, The Mushroom at the End of the World

2024-05-082024-05-08

Review – Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

Picture of a dog from the movie Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue.
Hagakure, The Book of the Samurai

2024-05-042025-11-04

Review: Filterworld by Kyle Chayka

A square crop of the cover of Filterworld by Kyle Chayka.

Attention becomes the only metric by which culture is judged, and what gets attention is dictated by equations developed by Silicon Valley engineers.
page 9, Filterworld

2024-05-022024-05-01

Media Diet – April 2024

April was dominated by a single video game, books and some video essays. I expect this to be the norm going forward.

2024-05-012025-11-04

Review: Horizon Forbidden West

A shot from Horizon Forbidden west looking at a mountain side. — Horizon Forbidden West is a wallpaper generator. I didn’t have to try very hard to get shots like these using the photo mode.

Home is not a place, it is the people I want to be with.
Aloy, Horizon Forbidden West