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Minna-no-kimochi (みんなのきもち) | Boiler Room Tokyo: Tohji Presents u-ha
youtube.comfor my @NewYorker column this week, I wrote about Byung-Chul Han, the internet's new favorite philosopher, the Sartre of looking at your phone a lot, author of the paperback manifesto your favorite artist / designer / architect is carrying in their pocket https://t.co/vJAgdEpq3H
Kyle Chaykax.comMIYAZAKI: A friend of mine from Nagoya says, “Nagoya got rid of alleyways with its city planning. The result is that young people don’t stay there. I was surprised when I came to Tokyo to discover so many narrow alleys that are fun to stroll along.” As I’m used to them, I don’t notice them as much, but alleys seem to provide a psychological
... See moreHayao Miyazaki • Turning Point: 1997-2008

Why does it now seem natural to us that a small place should stifle? For the same reason, I suspect, that the small town offers the possibility of knowing everyone, of seeing each social interaction and political choice whole from one end to the other, of making meaning. It is so easy to make the wrong meanings. The small town is a terrible place... See more
phil christman • Small-Town USA
hardscrabble
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
subtle stylist and a self-willed Everyman