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A Body That’s All Surface
nothingness is a matter of aesthetics; it’s the appearance of asceticism, the stylized performance of retreat — Kinfolking, urban-lumberjacking, “upstating.”
Shannon Mattern • How to Map Nothing
Keely Adler added
Websites are living, temporal spaces.
Laurel Schwulst • My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
Tanuj added
the internet is the precarious reservation onto which culture has been driven, bleak and uncanny, inhuman in scale.
Simplicio • The Last of the Monsters with Iron Teeth
Keely Adler and added
Art, as Bloch said, is a laboratory of possibilities. Indeed, other worlds become possible as and insofar as we curiously reformulate the networks in our heads—and in our hearts.
Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
Keely Adler added
The web is what we make it
Laurel Schwulst • My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
Tanuj added
“things of the world,” by which she means precisely the human-built world, in, as she put it, “stabilizing human life” — anchors of identity; but maybe not anchors but rather navigational beacons that help us map the self across time.)
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
Keely Adler added
In his 1985 essay “To Shrink,” philosopher Vilém Flusser attributes the interest in the discovery of worlds within the infinitesimal to a kind of revulsion for the body, a contempt for physical size that, he argues, “represents a regression, a distancing.” It was a sign of how we were becoming “less solid,” diminishing the importance of the corpore... See more
Real Life Mag • Colony Collapse - Real Life
Sixian added
here? What is buried under the gleaming surface? Because every image is partial, and most images have a great falsity in them.