“science is not a collection of truths,” but rather “a continuing exploration of mysteries.”
the hedgehog review • Mystery
... See moreWe have never been able to document our lives so thoroughly as we now can with the help of digital tools, yet we feel that time is out of joint and that we've lost the thread of both our personal and collective histories. We appear to be both obsessive documenters of our experience, yet largely indifferent to or overwhelmed by the archives we creat
The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time
Aaron Z. Lewisaaronzlewis.com- The argument is that accountings of history are not accurate, and can never be accurate, thanks to the narrative fallacy . By its nature, narrative necessarily compresses reality into some coherent tale, meaning that accountings of history tend to overemphasise intention and action, instead of the more plausible ‘random actions by actors in a compl
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From the broad temporality
that this era forces us to make sense of, our existence is surely dependent
only on what it leaves behind.
That is, it forces us to imagine our lives as
the marks, remains and impacts we have left upon the Earth, without “our”
in
fl
uence to de
fi
ne exactly what was
meant
by these marks.
that this era forces us to make sense of, our existence is surely dependent
only on what it leaves behind.
That is, it forces us to imagine our lives as
the marks, remains and impacts we have left upon the Earth, without “our”
in
fl
uence to de
fi
ne exactly what was
meant
by these marks.