Saturday, January 30, 2010

Fucking like Victorians

You can only abstain from abstaining (which is not to say, therefore, to participate or to Do) and still lay claim to the word. Talking about abstaining from whatever Thing is to not, in a sense.

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Fort / Da

social technology as a pressure valve. Being able to talk to people you otherwise wouldn't changing how we relate to the idea of this person - how we relate to absence. What is absence? What does it produce? What happens when you fundamentally alter the experience? If you don't lack - or don't in the way that the word once connoted... what happens to want? Does "social technology" psychologically atomize the World?