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Month: November 2020

  • everything works by imitation

    All those books that surround me every day allow me to feel near to myself—to what I was, to that reader who kept growing, changing, adding layers—and to the information and ideas they contain. Or that they only suggest. Or that they only hyperlink: many of my books are planets orbiting around thinkers, writers, and…

  • luma daze / nine notions of the metasystemic

    Among the many things on my list of events to speak at in 2020 was Luma Days, which is a kind of annual arts-community-philosophy shindig in Arles, southern France. Of course, the prospect of actually going in person went the way of almost all long distance travel this year—but Maria Finders and her team have…

  • framtiden ser ljus ut

    There’s no escape from dumb-ass hot takes about The Fewtch, even in DuoLingo: On the bright side, I’m on a 225-day streak, and apparently I’ve learned 2,000 words… which makes it all the more embarrassing that I still stumble over unexpected sentences in real-world transactions as simple as buying a coffee. Ah, well. Practice, practice,…

  • Västra Hamnen

  • 20NOV20

    Some days you just can’t traction on any damned thing, and this was one of those days. Taking some comfort from the knowledge that there used to be a lot of days like that, and now they’re pretty rare. Definitely struggling with the encroaching dark of winter, though… and the Swedish style of HVAC seems…