Philipp Rimmler

“When you read your notebooks, you remeet ideas. You reintroduce them to who you are now.” That’s from writer Max Porter’s interview in the book The Work of Art . (As you may know, I’m a huge believer in the importance of revisiting notebooks.)

Practice is a set of relays from one theoretical point to another, and theory is a relay from one practice to another.

Granted this is a harsh example to use in practice, but it highlights and reiterates a central theme of the essay, creating one’s own reason to live or rather, reclaiming agency over that reason.

Aesthetics always communicates values

But I do think we should ask if we suffer from the illusion that being busy is virtuous. And when we’re relaxing how are we relaxing? If travel ends up being stressful then we have to reevaluate where we’re going and why.

One: the loneliness crisis goes back further than we think; this is way more than just a case of “Internet bad;”

Two: this is not a loneliness crisis, it’s a fear crisis;

Three: by the time we even considered how much media was isolating us, it was too late; it went on for decades.

category leaders do not compare.