Joseph Burgess

Waiting is hope being lived.

The contrast with the design mode of instrumental reason could not be more pronounced. Eolithism posits no predefined problems to solve, no fixed goals to pursue. Storm’s Stone Age flâneur stands in stark opposition to the kind of rationality on display in Cold War–era thought experiments like the prisoner’s dilemma—and is only better for it. The a... See more

Train on what data? Clip which quote? These decisions—call them taste, discernment, subjectivity—these are the reasons we still turn to human work.

What sets Storm apart from other thinkers who have explored similar intellectual territory—like Claude Lévi-Strauss with his notion of “bricolage” and Jean Piaget with his observations of children and their toys—is his refusal to treat the eolithic mindset as archaic or merely a phase for primitive societies or toddlers.

Six rooms in an elegant Victorian or Edwardian house built after the earthquake rented for $120.