holey tactility
‘[T]ouch is the space of the gap, not the connection’ – McLuhan, quoted in Charlie Gere, Community without Community in Digital Culture, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2012
Simon Taylor
a letter to empyre soft_skinned_space on the subject of screens added here for interest even if leaving much unsaid
My father went to the cinema every Saturday where he saw the newsreels showing the liberation of the camps. The two things were always linked in his reminiscence: the joy of the screen and its stars and ‘having to see’ what ‘had to be seen.’ ‘Had to be’ because the
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estates
it’s not that philosophy’s dead, more of a deceased estate – and there are more. We its unwilling executors.
neither politics, nor history either – the more – dead: unwelcome dead letters, yet legible, not yet crumbling in our hands.
it is not philosophy that is bankrupt. We – overdrawn – are exhausted
“schools , hospitals , housing , transport and communications – those five pillars of a satisfactory life for all – can initially be regionalized (that is a step forward) , then exposed to competition (that is crucial) , and finally handed over to the ma
Alain Badiou’s The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings, here