Philosophy in Disguise
You have to tell stories about a place so people believe it’s worth keeping
September 12, 2026 · 9:10am · log
Having stopped in Amalfi midway through my run and come to appreciate Ravello for being and feeling more lived in. Ravello isn’t as touristy because its way harder to get to. I travel for the experience of seeing good life being lived in other ways than I might be exposed to…
What the future art object looks like
September 10, 2026 · 3:33pm · log
What does the future art object look like then? Is it making art that captures the moment with whatever means necessary? And whatever medium is best to convey that feeling? Is it using AI to help churn out the mechanical parts of it faster? Or is that Tom Sachs angle of making…
Stories instead of sermons
September 8, 2026 · 8:40am · log
A Greta Thunberg video on the breaching of the 1.5ºC limit, and her distress about it being met with little sustained news coverage. My recollection wanders to the hundreds (or was it thousands) of US news stations covering the “devastating” weather, how few (if any?) of them…