‘The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.’ […]

I call them hypernormative, with this very intense need to conform to one another and to have this belonging. I'm fascinated by them. They operate almost by hive mind. I've noticed that it could be a 70-degree cloudy day, and they would not come out of their apartments. The sun has to be shining for them to come out. The weather, the temperature,

“While traditional materialism is rooted in the present, Speculative Materialism – from the Latin ‘speculat’ meaning “observed from a vantage point” – looks to the horizon. Rather than designing materials to last for time immemorial, what about redesigning materials to degrade and be regenerated cyclically over time? […]

Sustainability without beauty (think cyberpunk-smartphone-on-wheels type EVs) doesn’t make sense! When something is beautiful, people care about it and take care of it. When something emanates beauty, one can almost feel the care and love that went into it. Beauty, in nature, is an expression of harmony, aliveness and love. Sustainability that