Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
In an essay called “Weird Ecology,” the writer David Tompkins compares Area X to a “hyperobject,” a term philosopher Timothy Morton used “to describe events or systems or processes that are too complex, too massively distributed across space and time, for humans to get a grip on.” Global warming, black holes, and mass extinction are contemporary ex... See more
e-flux • The Word Made Fresh: Mystical Encounter and the New Weird Divine - Journal #92
In these conditions of ontological precarity, forgetting becomes an adaptive strategy.
Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
the internet is the precarious reservation onto which culture has been driven, bleak and uncanny, inhuman in scale.
Simplicio • The Last of the Monsters with Iron Teeth
We exist today in the liminal space between the material and mediated, present when absent, absent when present.
Superbloom
the somewhat undefinable, unstable feeling of realness, wherever it lays and however it can be expressed these days
Kyle Chayka • Two months til Filterworld / a new project
when our sense of a subjective “I” disintegrates,
Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Thanks to these redundancies, the wood wide web is remarkably resilient; only a clear-cut can destroy it.