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the pandemic has merely accelerated a years-long descent into negation and sensory deprivation, a “desire for nothingness” that embodies the exhaustion of optimism and the embrace of nihilism.
Shannon Mattern • How to Map Nothing
the original question remains: What does this steadily throbbing shimmer hold for us? How is it revising our ideas about the larger human project? What continuities remain, and how do we contend—collectively and individually—with all the breaks and rifts, all the spots where traditions can no longer carry us over?
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
for many forms of life, humanity is the apocalypse.
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Auden regarded amphetamines as one of the “labor-saving devices” in the “mental kitchen,” alongside alcohol, coffee, and tobacco—although he was well aware that “these mechanisms are very crude, liable to injure the cook, and constantly breaking down.”
Mason Currey • Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
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Everything that binds and connects is disappearing. There are hardly any shared values or symbols, no common narratives that unite people.
Noema • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
ArtReviewUndinge revolves around our loss of connection to things in favour of digital information. What do objects have that new technologies don’t?
Byung-Chul Han Undinge proposes that the age of objects is over. The terrane order, the order of the Earth, consists of objects that take on a permanent form and provide a stable environment for human... See more
Byung-Chul Han Undinge proposes that the age of objects is over. The terrane order, the order of the Earth, consists of objects that take on a permanent form and provide a stable environment for human... See more