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The term poetic infrastructure has stuck with me. I consider myself someone who thinks almost exclusively in reference. Lines from movies, song lyrics, pages of books, that thing someone said, a picture I took. One thing is always another—a mental web flickering into both well-worn and bright new constellations—so much noise perhaps coalescing... See more
XLVII. the year of attraction
Curation is the act of creating context. - Jacob Horne
Lawson Baker • The Actual* Web3 Curation Landscape
Now I can’t imagine writing anything without reading a bunch PDFs about it first, to get a sense of the history of the idea and what conversations and discourses I’ll be entering. It feels a bit disrespectful and also irresponsible to do otherwise.
amateur hour
I grieve for many things; the engine of my grief changes, sometimes hourly. I grieve for our increasingly hostile and uninhabitable world, and I grieve for the cruelties that make it so, both structural ones and ones that individuals inflict on one another. But today I am grieving because I struggle to fathom all of the material loss of meaningful... See more
Hanif Abdurraqib • Lessons for the End of the World
I read things, and if I like them, I want to understand them better. So I go and read articles about it. Then, I look up things I don’t understand, which leads me to other articles, down and down until I find the foundational texts for the thing I want to know, and then I read those, and work my way back up through the development of the idea or... See more
amateur hour
Lists of destroyed buildings posted by the L.A. Conservancy and USModernist offer a ghost map of a past that extends far beyond living memory.
The Hidden Histories Lost in the Los Angeles Fires
Curation has been too focused on the information and not enough on architecture; how we collect, store, augment, and utilize what’s already in our minds.
Adam Grant • Check Your Pulse #55
I understand this element of loss, the exercise of cataloguing all that cannot come back, at least not in its original form.