nudgy bandwidth

Blop! The browser blinks again, faces come up and off the screen, In the background somebody is talking about ‘the self’ nudging itself into being through social media and the digital infrastructure. I try to make sense while refreshing browser, the voice arrives with 3 seconds of delay and last…

Interim use

“This photo is called ‘Mother and son’ by Tatsumi Orimoto. It won the photo prize at the Paris Photo in 2009. We thought it is a really fitting motive in a time where one should actually keep physical distance.” Johann Nowak, gallerist “And you can buy it for 44.000€. But…

blowing leaves

The STIHL BR 700 is an extremely powerful blower with length-adjustable blow tube and tool-free handle position adjustment. This professional leaf blower is characterised by a lot of blowing power and a low weight. Ideal for comfortable removal of lawn and hedge cuttings, leaves or debris on large areas. Other…

Ave, morituri te salutant

I can't enjoy old comedy shows anymore. Having gradually lost their audience, they only entertain the zombies laughing mechanically on command, people long gone and forgotten.

Enclosure n movement

I’m thinking about what to keep from this year. Even in advance of this pandemic, we’ve been constrained by increasing levels of enclosure: monadic people, pushed to individuate, who encounter blockages and frontiers at every turn. One thing to keep from the past few months is the refocus on the…

“If you’re on our side then you have to believe this too…”

It seems like there are less cults. There are certainly less of the crazy, bonkers ones. Except for NXIVM which provided some salacious, voyeuristic content for a couple of news cycles. But really cults are now much bigger. So big that often we don’t see them. Proud Boys, Scientology are…

emojirus

Source : https://blog.emojipedia.org/spread-of-the-coronavirus-emoji/

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You’ve got your feet in the dirtHead in the cloudsI told you to pace yourself and restYou gave me a frown

in response

in praise, an anniversary: “2020 = Wordsworth 250; a year of seismic events and deep reflection which we must ensure effects positive change, the old normal was an aberration. Wordsworth also lived through seismic events and saw the 1790s as a time of ‘dereliction and despair’, borne out of disillusionment…

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