on navigating loss, death, decay, and extinction
Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors ultimately forgotten?
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
"When I am dead
do not name me in relation to capital I will
be wageless & worthless & perfect."
–Brendan Joyce
eulogy values
Joseph Awuah-Darko, a 28-year-old Ghanaian artist and entrepreneur, announced on Instagram in early December that he wanted to die. His battles with bipolar disorder had crushed his will to live, he said, so he had moved to the Netherlands to pursue medically assisted death.
Three days later, he followed up with one of ... See more
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instagram.com“There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
― Frank Herbert, Dune
Dune Quotes by Frank Herbert
death salience + unfazed resiliency that are unspoken drivers behind so many behaviors today.
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on digital ruins and decay (or lack thereof)
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Narrative depth resists the “more is more” logic of a society of spectacle. Narrative lives in lack and loss, what we choose to do with the time we have, how we spend our fleeting resources.