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Fascinated by complexity, emergence, simplicity, life. Tweeting curious multiplicities, random intersections, multiple associations, Koestler's ants?
"The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures" - Hoffer
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures" - Hoffer
long live flesh and blood abstraction :)
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
long live flesh and blood abstraction :)
the floppy disk icon, abstract representation of a now unreal thing - and the very concept of saving as near obsolete - shadows of someone else's past
November 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
the floppy disk icon, abstract representation of a now unreal thing - and the very concept of saving as near obsolete - shadows of someone else's past
seasonal thoughts - throwaway the clock, the calendar, too...
naming days feels like railway time, an obsolete method of coordination, a suboptimal external imposition on human experience
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
seasonal thoughts - throwaway the clock, the calendar, too...
looking at a database icon, we recognize it immediately, but when you look at it, omg - the virtual world has shrunk beyond recognition - dust to dust
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
looking at a database icon, we recognize it immediately, but when you look at it, omg - the virtual world has shrunk beyond recognition - dust to dust
analogy, association, and anarchic brilliance
"Bush wished to replace the essentially linear fixed methods...with what are essentially Poetic-Machines -- machines that work according to analogy and association, machines that capture and create the Anarchic-Brilliance-of-Human-Imagination" -- Landow
November 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
analogy, association, and anarchic brilliance
"It is the poets and painters who react instantly to a new medium" -- McLuhan
"Poets and clowns have always risen up against the oppression of creative thought by dogma" -- Illich
November 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
"It is the poets and painters who react instantly to a new medium" -- McLuhan
"But illegitimate offspring are often exceedingly unfaithful to their origins. Their fathers, after all, are inessential" -- Haraway
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"But illegitimate offspring are often exceedingly unfaithful to their origins. Their fathers, after all, are inessential" -- Haraway
"The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not to mention state socialism" -- Haraway
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not to mention state socialism" -- Haraway
giving directions (again), to someone with satnav, then watching them go the wrong way - how much we take for granted, assume, that what we say is what others hear
November 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
giving directions (again), to someone with satnav, then watching them go the wrong way - how much we take for granted, assume, that what we say is what others hear
reading vacation, nice
re-reading vacation, because its more than a linear word count
re-reading vacation, because its more than a linear word count
November 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
reading vacation, nice
re-reading vacation, because its more than a linear word count
re-reading vacation, because its more than a linear word count