Month: December 2020
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intimidating but also intimate / reflections on formative time in a revenant medium
Metablogging is the most (self-)indulgent form of blogging—a bit of (self-demonstrating/self-performing) wisdom that was already a well-worn cliche when Technorati was still a thing that people cared about. But we are products of our milieu, are we not? Adam Kotsko would agree, I think—and this reflective bit of his from earlier this week flipped me…
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sköldpaddorna
Jo, men hur säger du “synchronicity” i svenska?
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being quite serious, the future may be boring
Offered without comment, but with the contextualising note that the interview took place in 1984, some thoughts from J G Ballard on what we might now identify as the formation of European post-Fordist neoliberalism: The young people of Western Europe since the sixties have grown up in a remarkably uniform environment, both in terms of…
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this strange machinery
/ is keeping you from seeing me… Thirty years ago. Blimey.