Collin G Brooke

“Each new generation, indeed every new human being as he inserts himself between an infinite past and an infinite future, must discover and ploddingly pave it anew.”

“our politics…are shaped largely by writing and the stories we tell.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates

(CBS Mornings interview, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgWt-QcPYMo)

it does involve a kind of close reading, a careful attention to the forms that organize texts, bodies, and institutions.

The effect of conspiracy culture is the opposite of calm; it is to spread panic.

One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.

Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.

scale requires technological adjuncts, because scale is only produced when we move beyond the perceptual limits of the human body.

the life of thought, holding a position is like that: there’s a proper firmness of belief that lies between the extremes of rigidity and flaccidity.

Much of our capacity to ‘use’ the world depends, not on an attempt to open ourselves as much as possible to apprehending whatever it is that exists apart from ourselves, but instead on apprehending whatever I have brought into being for myself, my representation of it. This is the remit of the left hemisphere, and would appear to require a

because scale deals with perspective, it is intertwined with notions of the subject, experience, consciousness, and interpretation.