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"“[...] designers, who are almost never in charge of the systems’ system, lose their imagined raison d’etre: their prefigurative know-how dissolves into the execution of someone or something else’s high level prefiguration: a manager, an engineer, an algorithm.”" — Jan 13, 2025 08:27AM
"“[...] designers, who are almost never in charge of the systems’ system, lose their imagined raison d’etre: their prefigurative know-how dissolves into the execution of someone or something else’s high level prefiguration: a manager, an engineer, an algorithm.”" — Jan 13, 2025 08:27AM
“But the real attraction of such technology has never been about capturing reality. Photography, videography, holography... the progression of such “reality-capturing” technology has been a proliferation of ways to lie about reality, to shape and distort it, to manipulate and fantasize. People shape and stage the experiences of their lives for the camera, go on vacations with one eye glued to the video camera. The desire to freeze reality is about avoiding reality.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“It was the first time that we had sort of articulated our major problem. She wanted to die and I wanted her to live and we were enemies who loved each other.”
― All My Puny Sorrows
― All My Puny Sorrows
“I thought about the way my mind wanders, how I drift through days losing hours, forgetting to remain in my body. How they call me absentminded, forgetful. The way I am mercury spilling over surfaces—solid and liquid, here and not.”
― I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
― I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
“So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really, as they say, the enjoyment of new and different things, and not, instead, the joy of expelling, discarding, cleansing itself of a recurrent impurity. ”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
“...it was ludicrous to think that we could just talk our way out of shame, that shame was necessary, that it prevented us from repeating shameful actions and that it motivated us to say we were sorry and to seek forgiveness and to empathize with our fellow humans and to feel the pain of self-loathing which motivated some of us to write books as a futile attempt at atonement, and shame also helped, I told my friend, to fuck up relationships and fucked-up relationships are the life force of books and movies and theatre so sure, let's get rid of shame but then we can kiss art goodbye too.”
― All My Puny Sorrows
― All My Puny Sorrows
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