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The spectacle, where commodity production met the social conditions of existence.

The spectacle is the epic poem of this time flows above its own.

Zen

Religious contemplation in its earliest form was the moment when cyclical time returned and abolished itself.

The best way to improve your awareness of architecture from looking at Twitter is to infer that it consists of the opposite of whatever idea “architecture Twitter” happens to be prioritizing.

Early morning walk in Olmsted Park. Have a creative coding class this afternoon. My first thought upon seeing these: arrays.

The commodity society, now discovering that it depends on society.

One thing I find interesting about shorwave numbers stations is how the model turns a lot of security intuition on its head. You get *more* security by broadcasting your secret messages at high power far and wide, because that increases uncertainty about where the recipient is.

As Sorel observed, it must presuppose that this available science needed a historical form.

In a materialistically oriented world there isn’t much understanding of the workings of the mind. What’s necessary is to recognise the trouble caused by negative emotions and that we can develop antidotes to them. The antidote to fear and anger is compassion

What hides under the general conditions of existence.

See, what some don't understand is that learning/teaching is an experience, you learn by what is happening around you and the way in which that event unfolds. Zoom compresses experience and makes learning 2 dimensional. It is a simulation.

A discussion of my twittage project and Guy Debord Bot can be found in the current volume of MAST along with my article, Descending Parnassus: the State of Material is in Play.

Stuff.