Category: General
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Contact low: reading Mark Fisher
I bought the K-Punk collected works of Mark Fisher late last year, and have slowly been working my way through it, going through phases of reading a few pieces a night before bed when I haven’t been reading fiction. I think I’m maybe ¾ through the thing now, factoring in for the notes and references;…
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Optimization theatre
The evolution of a society is an arms race between the fragile evolution of false consciousness myths and the robust evolution of mutually assured mediocrity equilibria. That’s how you slouch towards utopia. Venkatesh Rao, one of the most genuinely original and iconoclastic thinkers there is. If you wanted to write a story about a consultant…
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Stacked up
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Infrastructural reading
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Take it easy / take it out on me
Monday morning earworm — a much-loved tune from my formative years, which captures the frantic energy between my ears right now. It’s been a hectic week, with most of weekend eaten up by finishing a funding bid; this week’s shaping up to be pretty manic, too, and a welcome set of emails has just confirmed…