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it does involve a kind of close reading, a careful attention to the forms that organize texts, bodies, and institutions.
Caroline Levine • Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network
The anthropologist David Graeber once wrote: “The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” The same is true of the Internet.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
But there remains also the truth that every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning; this beginning is the promise, the only “message” which the end can ever produce. Beginning, before it becomes a historical event, is the supreme capacity of man; politically, it is identical with man’s freedom. Initium ut esset homo creatus est— “that
... See morewe need both “effective public disapproval” and “the influence of a preponderant professional condemnation.” I offer this book as a springboard to both.
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young • Wrong
Wisdom lies in discernment, and utopianism and nostalgia alike are ways of abandoning discernment.
Alan Jacobs • Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
the life of thought, holding a position is like that: there’s a proper firmness of belief that lies between the extremes of rigidity and flaccidity.
Alan Jacobs • How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
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