how things hold together

Language is much larger than the words themselves. The real language lives in what isn’t said. In what gets filtered out. In everything resting between the lines.

Tor Nørretranders calls this exformation - the hidden background of experience, associations, memories, culture, and bodily knowledge that makes meaning possible in the first place.

what happens to a feeling that has no word? It doesn’t disappear, but it becomes invisible. And when it can’t be expressed, it opens a distance between me and everything around me.

infrastructure policy must move from engineering certainty to engineering adaptability : investing in systems that can recombine and renew themselves without systemic disruption. The infrastructural state must become a learning system — one that continuously provisions stability through change, not against it.

There are depths at which ideas of how the world is put together are so integrated into life that they have become invisible. Those are the ones to watch out for. They sustain other ideas, and ideas about ideas. They seem unchangeable. But, pull a single thread loose and the whole tapestry can be reorganized.

To begin to think differently at this

I refuse to push my body to the brink of exhaustion and destruction. Let the chips fall where they may. I trust myself more than capitalism.

These reforms invert the underlying epistemology of policy. The goal is no longer to eliminate uncertainty before deciding but to institutionalize the capacity to decide under uncertainty . Decision-making becomes less about prediction and more about responsiveness — an operating rhythm aligned with the metabolism of a living system.

In this frame,