Collin G Brooke

“Any point in a process looks like the process was leading up to it if that’s as far as you’ve gotten.”

Instead of leveling the field between small and large, the open Internet has dramatically tilted it in favor of the most massive players.

Wisdom lies in discernment, and utopianism and nostalgia alike are ways of abandoning discernment.

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

the imaginary waxes while the symbolic wanes.

The critic Roy Christopher has called irony “the most abused trope of our time, a ‘get out of judgment free’ card, an escape route, an exit strategy.”

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

linguistic concept called the theory of performativity says that language does not simply describe or reflect who we are, it creates who we are.