Agalia Tan

Fantasy becomes a rehearsal for a different reality.

I am seeing in real time people who have no idea how to pull their feelings out of them...and to have a tool help them connect these hard-to-see dots in their life and perhaps even make sense of some of their madness.

“Those who control the fantasy control the future,” says futurist Monika Bielskyte. All speculative fictions bleed into reality. Dystopia may conceive of itself as satire (which doesn’t work because the targets of satirization don’t get it) or cautionary tale (which merely provides a product roadmap to build the futuristic tormenting technologies... See more

Who we choose to orbit defines, over time, the texture and colour palette of our becoming. Love becomes a technology of transformation, a living interface between selves. To love well is to take part in someone else’s unfolding, even as they take part in yours.

Each man is a kind of martyr. They inflict suffering on themselves to prove devotion to something immaterial. Like the mystic self-flagellating, or the stigmatic continually reopening the wounds on their hands so they remain gory for the faithful to see, Clavicular and Fuentes turn their lives, their bodies, into material proof of an abstract... See more

"When you're on the field, play as if nothing else matters.

When you're off the field, remember that the game doesn't matter at all."