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“They were Diegueños. They were armed with short bows and they drew about the travelers and knelt and gave them water out of a gourd. They’d seen such pilgrims before and with sufferings more terrible. They eked a desperate living from that land and they knew that nothing excepting some savage pursuit could drive men to such plight and they watched each day for that thing to gather itself out of its terrible incubation in the house of the sun and muster along the edge of the eastern world and whether it be armies or plague or pestilence or something altogether unspeakable they waited with a strange equanimity.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“When it comes to linguistic form, Plato walks with the Macedonian swineherd, Confucius with the head-hunting savage of Assam.”
― Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech
― Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech
“Antes una aclaración: no hay en este mundo infame comedia que dure tanto ni se enturbie ni se aguante si no hay —cual debe ser— humoradas transgresoras y un sinnúmero de equívocos que vayan de lo ridículo a la sofisticación. En aras de que se cumpla la comedia tal cual es, es mejor apresurar las acciones como sea y ponerle como sea un falso final feliz.”
― Porque parece mentira la verdad nunca se sabe
― Porque parece mentira la verdad nunca se sabe
“And for those of us who are motivated by commitment to a specifically participatory politics of the commons, it’s not at all clear that any blockchain-based infrastructure can support the kind of flexible assemblies we imagine. I myself come from an intellectual tradition that insists that any appearance of the word “potential” needs to be greeted with skepticism. There is no such thing as potential, in this view: there are merely states of a system that have historically been enacted, and those that have not yet been enacted. The only way to assess whether a system is capable of assuming a given state is to do the work of enacting it.”
― Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
― Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
“It’s not hard to perceive a certain deadening sameness that has begun to blanket the world under the sway of the Stacks, as the planet’s extraordinary diversity of lifeways yield to the unlimited perfect reproduction of the modes of taste, self-expression and subjectivity these new hegemons are tuned to. All of them are headquartered on the west coast of the United States, three of them within a ten-mile radius of Stanford University. They share a set of assumptions about who their user is, how that person lives and what they want; they share a grounding in the Californian Ideology18 and the casual technolibertarianism that has long reigned in the Bay Area; and latterly, they even tend to share a single overarching aesthetic.”
― Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
― Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
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