We've Run Out of Ideas: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, and Finally as Metaverse

Of course, looking back over this, my reaction to the whole situation is, essentially: “We shouldn’t make a metaverse, and if we do, you shouldn’t be the ones to make it.”

Problematic for the People: On Digital Gentrification and the Joy of Discourse

No excerpt really did this piece justice — it is meant as an examination of online gentrification in regard to Tumblr, Itch.io, and the mechanisms by which is works (discourse, it mainly works by discourse), and the side-effects that this is having on the very online and their level of comfort with topics relating to sexuality.

The Aim Is To Have Chosen Successfully: On Within the Context of No Context by George W.S. Trow

Within the Context of No Context essentially read like the I Ching with anger management problems. It’s an abstract text: I’m beginning to think it best to read it more like a map than a book. It’s a work of genius and madness. Possibly, it’s the last great work of bourgeois philosophy.