I am constant accommodation, and though I might see where the road is going, I’m too slow to ever be the person to say so. Every atom of my being oscillates each moment with less energy, outpaced only by the rate at which the molecular whole decays.
Continue reading “9.10.20: 1”
Arguments about form and content occur across disciplines. Why? In this post, I begin what will be a long exploration of this question with a reading of Google’s “Loretta” ad (2020) to explore technology through a form/content lens.
Continue reading “Towards a General Theory of Form and Content”
A response to a solely psychological critique of niceness within neoliberalism published last year in Damage.
Continue reading “People Are Looking at Your LinkedIn Profile”
Arlo, my three-year-old son, picked the miniature book from the shelf, I imagine, because it scaled him to an adult size. He didn’t know that it was a collection of poetry by young men who were killed in the First World War. He brought it to the dinner table and issued his most effective command, “Read it!”
Continue reading “Before an Ignorant Army”
Two weeks ago, I voluntarily self-quarantined with my wife and our toddler when they came back from visiting family in France. I had always imagined an emergency, a crisis, to be filled with panic, but these slow, thick days feel more like the quiet that settles in the wake of a death. It feels like everybody is grieving, but we don’t know what for.
Continue reading “Loss Adjustment”
1. Inevitable, not evangelical, socialism?
2. Three buildings during Bernie rally in Springfield, Mass.
1. Dialectics for dummies?
2. Be more mindful (of how self-awareness moralism works).
Our politics are faint echoes of things happening elsewhere, everywhere: the thud of flesh double-tapping glass, precisely simulated clicks, the brush of magnetic strips through plastic, faceless voices from inside gas pumps chiding us to know things we don’t care about as we fill the tank with guilt. In other words, politics follows the forces that are actually transforming our world: production and consumption. Not the reverse.
Continue reading “Who’s Gonna Buy That?”
About my time sweating in a sauna in Berlin, a college bro talking to his mother in a sauna in Rochester, and also how coincidence can be simulated to make consumption feel meaningful.
Continue reading “Artificial Coincidence”
1. Smelling memories
2. Other people’s memories (at the Mattress Factory)
3. Useless memories?