The idea that language is a game at which some players are more skilled than others has a bearing on the vexed relationship between loneliness and speech. Speech failures, communication breakdowns, misunderstandings, mishearings, episodes of muteness, stuttering and stammering, word forgetfulness, even the inability to grasp a joke: all these things invoke loneliness, forcing a reminder of the precarious, imperfect means by which we express our interiors to others.
the lonely city: adventures in the art of being alone, olivia laing (via blissninnie)
“This is how Big Oil will die”
Receiving a WhatsApp message from a nice friend who moved to Buenos Aires (and whom I last saw and heard from in 2014) feels receiving a paper letter in the mail.
Why do we not write letters anymore?
Pics or it didn’t happen
The worst part of this society we’ve created is how it’s a privilege to be heard instead of only seen
I wonder if it’s because hearing takes more time, conscious effort and commitment than seeing.
Commitment-phobia has become endemic because of information overload that we continue to create.
We became hyper aware of endless possibilities, we want to be everywhere at once, we want to experience everything that exists, and we want to know everything that was and that will be. We want to become gods.
Technology gave us an illusion that it is possible, but instead it took away what we had.
Good wood – nestled among tall trees in a forested area of Northern California, ‘The Forest House’ makes for a divine hideaway from the daily grind.
“For me, the only thing worse than descending into a New York City subway in July is descending into a New York City subway in August,” Bob Staake says, about his cover for this week’s issue.
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