Jen Dorman
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Jen Dorman
In 1995, when he was 58, Mr. Foreman received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, popularly known as the “genius grant.” The foundation praised him for his “original vision and commitment to developing new theatrical vocabularies” that influenced the direction of American avant-garde theater.
NYT, Richard Foreman obituary
The shock we’re experiencing now can’t be summarized as present shock, which happens when we become blindly obsessed with the present moment. Nor is it a form of future shock, which happens when we feel that change is taking place too quickly. Instead, the shock we’re feeling today is an affront to our most basic understanding of reality. And the m... See more
🏡 Shock and Awe
“In place of occasional experiences of depth that renew and satisfy us,” I observed, “we are simply given an infinite surface upon which to skim indefinitely.”
L. M. Sacasas • What You Get Is the World
When it comes to bridal requests, do you ever tell someone that something is impossible?
I’ll tell you this. I applied for Teach for America, and I was asked, “You plan a field trip, but now there’s no funding for the bus. What do you do?” I answered and later they said, “What did it feel like when we told you that you couldn’t go on a field trip?”
... See more“If technology is making the illusion of participation feel more potent, it’s not by overproducing the means of human connection but by creating the conditions in which endless, aimless discourse has no phatic component. […]
Who could possibly believe that an interaction with an AI model is (1) a conversation and (2) that it warrants evaluation in t
... See more“For me ideas are coherent patterns of information that can be used for particular forms of action; either embodied action or to realize a particular form. This is the reason why I take the view that ideas are not memes. The meme originally defined by Richard Dawkins is a unit that competes with other memes in the same way that organ
... See morethe most popular way to quell this unsettling sense of not-at-home-ness is by trying to make ourselves at home in the world, even if that looks like mostly distracting ourselves from the unsettling fact of our alienation.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Not “more, faster” but “stranger, richer”