Brief Encounters

“Live in Fragments No Longer”

“Surveillance makes worker coordination and solidarity harder, and big data makes capital coordination easier, so the need for both pro-labor and antitrust laws is greater than ever before.”

August 13, 2022

Messages to the Medium

“I tend to be obsessed with questions of mediated relations—what I call distanced intimacy.”

July 30, 2022

Empire Records

“The most popular histories are usually of leaders and wars—‘chaps and maps.’ After the fortieth Churchill biography, that can get tedious.”

July 23, 2022

The Edge of Legibility

“Design and commercial art can be like assembling a sculpture out of found objects; building something unusual out of the familiar.”

July 16, 2022

Reading in the Bath

“I read to be lifted out of my own life, which I thought boring.”

July 9, 2022

One Mind Humming

“In my practice I seek to have it both ways: to respect patients and my own mind enough to believe that we can meet in the open field of conversation with our mutual intuitions, experiences, and bodies of knowledge.”

July 2, 2022

Dimensions of Devotion

“Art is a social phenomenon. It is a knot that exists between people.”

June 25, 2022

The Oversoul Speaking to the Undercarriage

“You either counsel yourself or go mad. It’s almost contrapuntal.”

June 18, 2022

The Accidental Internet Scholar

“I don’t actually want Facebook to disappear—I just want it to stop being the default for conversations online.”

June 11, 2022

Lithe, Jagged, Dark

“When you’re an artist, there are times when everything becomes your art, and it’s exciting to follow that.”

June 4, 2022