Reflections on books, the web, philosophy, and the quiet disciplines that hold a life together.
The phone keeps twelve drafts. He keeps the phone.Draft 1. “Hey. Long time. How are you?” Written in March, 11 PM. Deleted because “how are you” is a question you ask when you’ve decided in advance not to hear the answer.
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In the West, the price is a wall. It’s printed, it’s final, and you either pay it or leave.
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Every child I know was told they could be anything, and every adult I know is something, and the gap between those two facts is where we all live now.
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> TIMESTAMPING ARCHE-FOSSIL...> DATE: 4.4 BILLION YEARS> WITNESSES PRESENT: ZERO> PREHUMAN: CONFIRMED1. The Fossil That Asks the Rude QuestionMeillassoux’s opening move is a fossil. Not a poetic one: a zir...
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> DETECTING HARDWARE...> CHASSIS: FLESH v1.0 (LEGACY)> FIRMWARE: PROPRIETARY> ROOT ACCESS: DENIED (FOR NOW)1. The Illegitimate ChildHaraway’s cyborg was never a celebration of gadgets. It was a bastard: th...
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