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Author: dig

  • Here there’s an offering of how

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    the scatter as a call to connect the dots differently, or not

    How do we stay in life without reproducing what’s diminishing in it?

    Here there’s an offering of how to construct and occupy the historical present.

    (LB)

  • change through exchanging with others

    Our utopia is about the idea of change–not the thought of the absolute that we impose on ourselves and others. I always sum this up with a saying: “I can change through exchanging with others, without losing or diluting my sense of self” – Glissant.

    The Archipelago Conversations, Édouard Glissant & Hans Ulrich Obrist, Emma Ramadan, translator. Isolarii, 2021.

    Peter Fischli David Weiss, A Restless Night (Equilibres series), 1985. C-Print, 15.6 x 11.8 inch. Galerie Eva Presenhuber.

  • Orchid, 1982

    Robert Mapplethorpe
    Orchid, 1982
    Gelatin silver print
    66.3 x 63.5 x 2.5 cm
    26.1 x 25 x 1 inch

    via Mai 36 Galerie

  • Disproportion

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    Aggressive, disproportionate, excessive policing … still, in 2026.

    https://bsky.app/profile/ouest-france29.bsky.social

  • it still means something to be human.

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    Talk to It, James Gleick (New York Review)

    Sherry Turkle, the MIT sociologist who has chronicled our tumultuous relationship with computers across more than forty years, sees “a long-standing fantasy, shared by science fiction and engineers, that AI will offer a perfect companion that knows everything about you. It will be there for you and ask nothing in return.” Her wise new book, Artificial Intimacy, expands on themes she began developing in The Second Self (1984) and sounds an alarm: “We are on a path to forgetting what it is to be human.”

    […]

    … it still means something to be human. We have knowledge and feelings that come from experiences in a physical world and interactions with our fellow creatures. We engage with reality in a way that an algorithm cannot. The distinction between real and virtual still matters:

    When people talk about how relaxing it is to talk to a chatbot, it’s because the real slips away. To act in the world, you need to deal with its friction: almost everything takes conflict, negotiation, compromise, and time.

  • wonderful dark explorations for which he was to be their guide

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    there was a need, a specific request, and so he stepped forward.

    wonderful dark explorations for which he was to be their guide.

    It was the measurement of the time which had gotten away from them.

    (AP)

    https://www.tumblr.com/birdbird/831209414507790336/the-restoration-of-the-material-is-like-cleaning

  • AG2024u-2a or nothing folds easily

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    I believe nothing folds easily,

    but that time will crease—

    retrain the mind.

    …

    What I Believe, Kimberly Blaeser

  • wandering without return …

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    living in ellipsis as a structure of dissociated continuity loosely bound to symbolization

    Elliptical life then emerges in the place where what’s known meets what’s unknowable and what goes without saying meets what fails to reach meaning.

    wandering without return

    (LB)

    … wayward!