Bridget Graber

“In one book, your father is a hero. In another book, he is a monster. The men who don’t have books written about them have it easier.”
― Jaroslav Kalfar, Spaceman of Bohemia

“What does it mean to construct digital worlds while the actual world is crumbling before our eyes?”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

“This cannot help affecting the body: after all, if you go through life being stressed while not knowing you are stressed, there is little you can do to protect yourself from the long-term physiological consequences.”
― Gabor Maté, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

“Maybe someday breakthroughs in neurobiology will enable us to explain communism and the crusades in strictly biochemical terms. Yet we are very far from that point. During the twenty-first century the border between history and biology is likely to blur not because we will discover biological explanations for historical events, but rather because ideological fictions will rewrite DNA strands; political and economic interests will redesign the climate; and the geography of mountains and rivers will give way to cyberspace. As human fictions are translated into genetic and electronic codes, the intersubjective reality will swallow up the objective reality and biology will merge with history. In the twenty-first century fiction might thereby become the most potent force on earth, surpassing even wayward asteroids and natural selection. Hence if we want to understand our future, cracking genomes and crunching numbers is hardly enough. We must also decipher the fictions that give meaning to the world.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow