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her main focus was Simone Weil. She riffed on Weil’s idea of the void, of making a space inside yourself for the divine to rush into. “Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.”

MySpace linked the digital geography of the Internet to the offscreen world in other ways. You connected your account to your friends’ accounts by “friending” them, building a map of your preëxisting IRL relationships, and the site prompted you to choose a “Top Friends” ranking of eight people whose names appeared first in the list. The feature... See more

Word-work is sublime, she thinks, because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference – the way in which we are like no other life.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Here's why MIT Building 20 could be considered an example of "Nakatomi Space" in real life:●Unconventional Design: Building 20 was a hastily constructed "temporary" structure during World War II, leading to a flexible and adaptable layout that differed from the more rigid designs of traditional academic buildings.1 ●Repurposing and Modification:... See more