The void is my friend.
Continue reading “Review: How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra”Whether it’s a telephone or a T-shirt, most modern goods are made possible by cooperation and standards, the products of humans working together to make use of technologies that no one person can understand in their entirety.
Page 10, Behind the Lights
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
Continue reading “Review – Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)”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
Continue reading “Review: 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
April was dominated by a single video game, books and some video essays. I expect this to be the norm going forward.
Continue reading “Media Diet – April 2024”