Zoe Cowlishaw

As a thirdspace (Soja, 1996), people gather here for formal and informal socialization and entertainment (whether meeting friends, connecting with fellow fans watching a sports game, or simply sitting on a patio to watch passerby’s). In critically examining these spaces of representation (Lefebvre, 1991 [1974]) – the everyday sites that people... See more

Friendships are, by their very nature, made of friction. To know what is going on in someone’s day-to-day life, to make plans with them, and then reschedule those plans when someone inevitably gets sick, and then bring over Calpol or soup or an extra laptop charger. To water their plants while they’re away, to ask them to take your kids when you’re... See more

There’s no better marker of culture’s unoriginality than everyone talking about culture’s unoriginality.

I believe I am being confronted with this impossible task: making a perfect idea into a perfect creation . What I fail to recognise is that the idea only seems perfect precisely because it has no counterpart in reality .

I recently declared feed bankruptcy.

At various points in my week // day, I type "kottke.org" into my browser, hit enter, and read whatever is there. Then I type "chorus.fm" and do the same thing. Then Daring Fireball. Then Hacker News.

I read good things, on good websites.

And it feels like an exercise in nostalgia.

Between 2010 and now, we... See more