on glitches, glimmers, and cracks in the fabric
I’ve developed a certain tenderness for the glitch: the riddled, dysfunctional thing that evades the conditions of what might be expected and what might be known, rupturing unfamiliar territories, or maybe a glimpse into a second reality that has been there all along
Tan Tuck Ming • My Grandmother Glitches the Machine
A glitch is similar in that it is a failure in a minor key, a moment of slippage when the code or the machine blunders and produces an unintended, random output.
Tan Tuck Ming • My Grandmother Glitches the Machine
We're on the verge of transformation.
All the mourning and anxiety that comes with the collapse of Western systems can be channelled into visions for a new future.
Grief is not where we stop. Grief is where we begin.
What comes next is up to us.
instagram.comI hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through; I hope you will keep the world unruly, messy, full of strange magics; I hope you will run through every open Door and tell stories when you return.
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eflecting on these points, you might say the process feels messy and unpredictable. Indeed, it should. The birth of something great is never serene. It’s a series of cracks and contortions in the rock, each break revealing a new gleam beneath the surface. Over time, what was once ambiguous becomes inevitable—what was once a mad experiment looks, in... See more
It’s a bit like dreaming, which is always a bit like remembering.
Tan Tuck Ming • My Grandmother Glitches the Machine
“The glitch is a wonderful experience of an interruption that shifts an object away from its ordinary form and discourse… But once I named it, the momentum—the glitch—is no more…” For Menkman, the glitch cannot be described or it ceases to be what it claims; it is a lack, a break in the pattern of meaning that forces its own opening.
Tan Tuck Ming • My Grandmother Glitches the Machine
As futurists we look for signals—small, often weird things. They are usually new technologies, new behaviors, new narratives that don’t fit into the mainstream, but that are often precursors of important transformations. We then try to discern the larger patterns that these signals herald to understand where they might lead ten or more years down
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