Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
(I find myself thinking of Terry Eagleton’s assertion that “capitalism plunders the sensuality of the body.”)
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
queer temporalities are extensive,
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
“Unpacking My Library,”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Philip E. Agre
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
All day and all night long, her only people are the trees, and her only means of speaking for them are words, those organs of saprophytic latecomers that live off the energy green things make.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
sure enough,
David Abram • Becoming Animal
One form is onion-like.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
If I believe my inner world is an “ecology” and social media’s algorithms are “incursions” and “extractive”—then I have to think hard about my own part in sustaining the fragile space of my attention, a place I’ve been cultivating with great care all these years.