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Process > artifacts

As I’ve learned to let go of my prior fixation with outcomes, I’ve found myself more inclined to explore and play, and in this is another lesson: play does not imply lack of purpose. Quite the opposite, it honors the most meaningful kind of purpose: that which arises from process. We don’t find meaning, we make it.

When we are... See more

I realized that the craftsmen of yore had elevated weaponry, a category of merely utilitarian objects, into some of the most exquisite things I had ever seen. They had taken objects of ubiquitous, vital importance in their respective eras and made them beautiful. My initial aesthetic shock was quickly replaced by jealousy — no one was lifting the... See more

Artificial Memory and the Interruption of Infinity

Produced for the Summer of Protocols research program, Kei’s essay-chapter “Artifical Memory and the Interruption of Infinity” provides a path through the history of memory protocols in a Western context, highlighting traditional canon and where it falls short. Beginning in 500 B.C. with a Hellenic... See more

“we carry ancient beaches in our

pockets, transformed into prediction engines, each grain calculating our next desire.”