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Writing as Communion

This is pretty good, and strangely consistent with my own idea of good taste Tasteful people pursue stuff with purpose, have an appreciation and curi

On paper, taste = discernment. In practice, taste = your sense of self, made visible.

For Kant, judgment is the mental faculty that connects particulars to universals—the capacity to say “this thing is an instance of that category.” But

A system optimized for noise elimination is hostile to the genuinely new. It converges on what works, on what has worked. That convergence might produ

“Where there is selection there is art.” —BH Liddell Hart.

“Love becomes the deposit of the heart, analogous in all degrees to the ‘findings’ in a tomb. As in one will be charted the taken place of the body, t

"We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality. We sleep in a long reproachful dust against ourselves. We are full to the gorg

We see something that works, and then we understand it “We see something that works, and then we understand it.” (Thomas Dullien) It is a deeper

A garden is made up of the following parts: Seeds: the content contributed by gardeners, such as text, photos, video, audio, or other digital media. G

ore often than not, the digital gardens of today are botanic—privately owned online spaces made for visitors to fawn over while a “do not touch” sign

Among the troubadours, there was a different class of people, called knowms. Thecouncil was told that the knowms had some special skills that may help

information becomes knowledge only through processes of verification and critical analysis.

This is what knowledge decay looks like. Not burning libraries, but a slow, structural dissolution of the connections between claims and their sources