How to Repair a Spaceport by Kei Kreutler
A World is a reality you can believe in: one that promises to bring about habitable structure from the potential of chaos, and aim toward a future transformative enough to metabolize the pain and pleasure of its dysfunction.
Ian Cheng • Worlding Raga: 2 – What is a World?
Sylvan Rackham added
Given the degree of brokenness of the broken world (and the expense of fixing it), we need all maintainers to apply their diverse disciplinary methods and practical skills to the collective project of repair.
Places Journal • Maintenance and Care
We realised that the tools we have created to master the world are re-mastering us. But more importantly, it became evident, that the desire for mapping, tweaking and ultimately, controlling, deeply complex systems is hubristic. As Tega Brain writes in her exceptional essay “we must acknowledge how deeply entrenched we are within a computational wo... See more
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
Keely Adler and added
Repairing this ethic is a task that defies any straightforward approach. Solving it is not a matter of devising elegant theories or highly specified plans, but instead observing what stirs within when you encounter a piece of architecture.
Noah Putnam • The Concrete Oasis
Without World - The White Review
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Joe Maceda and added
I’ve developed a certain tenderness for the glitch: the riddled, dysfunctional thing that evades the conditions of what might be expected and what might be known, rupturing unfamiliar territories, or maybe a glimpse into a second reality that has been there all along
Tan Tuck Ming • My Grandmother Glitches the Machine
Keely Adler added
the puzzle is less about how things become awkward than about how things are ever not awkward. Our reliance on infrastructure is most evident when that infrastructure fails.
Alexandra Plakias • Awkwardness: A Theory
space of places.”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Lael Johnson and added