“Playing with conventions, literary or social, taking them apart and exposing them as scaffolding that hides rather than reveals truths can be threatening to those who think they know exactly how the world is supposed to turn. The Trilogy repositions the reader. It forces her to see the world differently. That’s the magic.”
Remembering Paul Auster lithub.com
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Instagram is testing “ad breaks” that force you to stop and look at an ad for a period of time before you can continue scrolling. The internet’s transformation into a pay to play game continues apace.
At the turn of the 21st century, corrugated cardboard accounted for just fifteen percent of the U.S. recycling stream. Today, it’s nearly half.
World in a Box: Cardboard Media and the Geographic Imagination placesjournal.org
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Image credit Title: Piles of recycling waiting to be sorted Creator: World Resources Institute Date: 2019 Type: Colour digital photo Rights: Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Utopian Realism, a speech by Bruce Sterling
This is a great read, especially for anyone who’s spent time in Turin
A basic Turinese problem here is that Torino is progressive, but a heritage tourist industry, which is very attractive to tourists, has no avant-garde. Their stifling interest in your past holds you back. You can’t do “futuristic heritage industry.” Why? Because you can’t move forward into the past.
Utopian Realism, a speech by Bruce Sterling bruces.medium.com
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Image credit Title: Turin Creator: Ben Harris-Roxas Date: 20 April 2017 Type: Colour digital photo Rights: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.0
“The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.” The crisis in French identity since De Gaulle
Interesting article on France diminished global influence and the crisis this represents for their national identity:
One would have to go back 20 years to find a moment when Paris last demonstrated the will to step out from beneath the shadow of the U.S. and exercise a critically important decision on its own. In 2003, it opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq. French diplomacy, under the auspices of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, effectively cemented a coalition with Germany and Russia, depriving the American initiative of international legitimacy. Since that time, France has once more found its place in European affairs to be subordinate to Germany and within the orbit of U.S. countenance.
Macron and the French Identity Crisis intpolicydigest.org
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Timely, given the ongoing crisis in New Caledonia.
Image credit Title: Incendies sur Nouméa Creator: Lilian Alizert Date: 16 May 2024 Type: Colour digital photo Rights: Copyright Lilian Alizert
"One thing I do have confidence in is my feeling"
A really interesting interview with André 3000 by Hanif Abdurraqib:
“The thing is, I can only give what I’m feeling. I’m interested in discovery. If there’s not any discovery, it doesn’t feel real to me. I’ve never considered myself the best producer or the best singer or the best rapper or any of those separate categories. But one thing I do have confidence in is my feeling.”
André 3000 is at peace - The Bitter Southerner
