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I used the footnotes like clues in a mystery. You build out from the article, making a web of relationships and then work your way back in. At least that’s how it works for me. When I didn’t understand something, I looked it up. There was a lot I didn’t understand. There is so much I don’t understand.
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
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
Some great-grandchild will find this book at the back of the closet. And I will, at least as a pale apparition, come briefly to life.
Jillian Hess • Helen Sword's Pleasurable Notes
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
Curation is the act of creating context. - Jacob Horne
Lawson Baker • The Actual* Web3 Curation Landscape
I understand this element of loss, the exercise of cataloguing all that cannot come back, at least not in its original form.
Hanif Abdurraqib • Lessons for the End of the World
It’s a bit like dreaming, which is always a bit like remembering.
Tan Tuck Ming • My Grandmother Glitches the Machine
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