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92 entries- Dec 20EssayWorld Machines Logic of the Thicket and the Unsearchable Web
There is a particular kind of stillness found in the villa overlooking the Giardino all’italiana, a silence that is less about the absence of noise and more about the absolute presence of a plan. …
8 min - Dec 17EssayWorld Machines The Shelter as Epistemic Engine
This is a continuation of my ongoing exploration of places and spaces. Previously: We need homes in the delta quadrant, Thinking with places, Problems are places questions are spaces. Introduction: …
6 min - Dec 8Essay The Tortured Artist Is So Yesterday
41 years ago, Samuel Lipman wrote that an artist’s life is a “constant—and constantly losing—battle” against one’s own limits. That image has lasted because print culture taught us to imagine the …
3 min - Dec 6EssayWorld Machines Four Early-Modern Tempers for a World That Can Summon Itself
This is a partial synthesis of the books read through 2025 in the Contraptions Book Club. We live in a moment when the whole of human culture has become strangely available, no longer just an archive …
8 min - Nov 25Bookmark much love to everybody
xkcd published this wonderful piece: https://xkcd.com/3172/ want to feel old?
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