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Drink Full

Saturday, July 15, 2017

“Why is the flower garden in the dog’s eyes?” Mother had asked. “Dogs are the recorders of history,” Dad had replied. —Can Xue, Frontier

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Compulsive Diarist

Saturday, July 8, 2017

It was a failure of my imagination that made me keep leaving people. All I could see in the world were beginnings and endings: moments to survive, record, and, once recorded, safely forget. I knew I was getting somewhere when I began losing interest in the beginnings and the ends of things. Short tragic love […]

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Braindump: Atemporality and Memory

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

This unorganized lump of speculation is more or less a dump of my brain’s activity after I read Bruce Sterling’s talk, “Atemporality for the Creative Artist,” which he gave at Transmediale 10, Berlin, Feb. 6, 2010. A few quotes: Refuse the awe of the future. Refuse reverence to the past. If they are really the […]

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