Books

If you have to deeply think about what you’re posting on any crypto social app you need to really rethink why you’re here.

otoh every single surface on which words can be laid, digital or analog, sonic or textural, is an opportunity to imagine yourself writing a letter to a friend not seen in years, with the now-conquered distance of time and space still there to mediate (quite strongly) between two imaginations

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https://www.metonymic.info/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_of_the_Sun

originality becomes an identity and a statistical category glossing over the conceptual problems that it presents. Cultures of individualism hide the mechanics of social structures, just as Prussian-military-inspired public education hides the mechanics of learning. See Ivan Illich.

availability of paper no longer limits written output and yet the dominant digital mediums suffocate creativity by overemphasizing immediacy