In Ways of Being, James Bridle writes about how technology can help us think beyond our narrow scale of time and space
We humans live in such a narrow slice of time and space that we are incapable of thinking of, or thinking at, the pace and scale of the world, the changes we have wrought in it, and the changes we will have to make to survive them. Our given minds are insufficient to the task - but we do have tools to hand, technology among them.
I am watching Terence McKenna’s Final Interview on YouTube and when he states that time is speeding up, the interviewer asks what he means, since the time we keep is the same as ever, and it doesn’t seem to be …
I was listening to Emre Şan discuss Bernard Stiegler’s ideas about proletarianization in Akbank Sanat’s YouTube series Felsefe Seminerleri. For Stiegler, proletarianization means more than the working-class …
I am playing Disco Elysium, where certain topics that arise in the story become available as “thoughts” in what the game calls the Thought Cabinet. The main character can hold several thoughts at once. To …
In this scene from Matt Ross’s movie Captain Fantastic, Viggo Mortensen’s character tells his daughter that interesting is a non word, and that she was supposed to avoid it and be more specific. This idea stuck …
