Semajitation

“I don't find perfection especially interesting. Art is not all about refinement and formal accomplishment. It is about passion and imagination and courage and these things that I didn't understand when I was kid being taught the rules. I realized that a novel could be. . .art could be. . . what I wanted to make it if I could pull it off.”
― Steve Erickson

“Politics is almost never violent toward the people who are actually making the political decisions.”
― Mur Lafferty, Six Wakes

“The Anthropocene is an 'Entropocene', that is, a period in which entropy is produced on a massive scale, thanks precisely to the fact that what has been liquidated and automated is knowledge, so that in fact it is no longer knowledge at all, but rather a set of closed systems, that is, entropic systems. Knowledge is an open system: it always includes a capacity for disautomatization that produces negentropy.”
― Bernard Stiegler, The Neganthropocene

“A guilty system recognizes no innocents.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games