September 2025
Journal — Romina Malta
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we all have rituals we protect — even when we’re burnt out, distracted, or in flux. for some it’s the first cup of coffee in silence. for others it’s folding laundry in a particular way. maybe it’s rewatching comfort shows or making playlists for imaginary versions of yourself. these rituals often hold clues about what kind of life you want: slow,... See more
work your way through the film festival line-ups of previous years and see what catches your eye. do what we did as children and pick out a random book at the library, a title you haven’t seen before by an author whose name you don’t recognize, and let yourself be whisked away. pick up a a magazine on a form you are unfamiliar with; a biannual... See more
Ayan Artan • how to be a critic.
In the context of behaviors, “centers” might be activities, virtues, places, people, ambiances, longings, imaginings, memories, times of day, flavors. A well-developed center will be easy to see; it will produce positive emotion, a feeling of quiet ease, of non-separateness from the world. It will carry many layers of elaboration and generation. It... See more
Sarah Perry • Deep Laziness
to save, to add to our collection, the action both etches it a little deeper into our hearts and creates a context around the artifact itself, whether text, song, image, or video. The context is not just for ourselves but for other people, the knit-together, shared context of culture at large. That’s what Benjamin described when he wrote, “The
... See moreKyle Chayka • Filterworld
Learn to be findable.
This is the hardest. Being findable means living somewhere in public: a regular table, a habitual lane, a community noticeboard with your handwriting on it. It means answering invitations with an answer, not a fog. It means having a door that opens.
This is the hardest. Being findable means living somewhere in public: a regular table, a habitual lane, a community noticeboard with your handwriting on it. It means answering invitations with an answer, not a fog. It means having a door that opens.
An Existential Guide to: Making Friends
Not everything needs to be archived; but the archival impulse also goes far beyond the realm of collection, capable of being deployed “as a set of shared curiosities, a local politics, or epistemological adventure.”[5] They draw on Rancière’s notion of the sentence-image[6] as a means of “thinking across” the “autonomy” of artistic practices,
... See moreHenrik Karlsson • Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
Over long periods of time spent in physical archives, you develop a holistic picture of a slice of history that is necessarily individual to you, as the researcher, because you can’t control or even fully understand what your brain finds interesting in a set of documents. They’re just ... interesting . Maybe not to anyone else, at first. But over... See more