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January 4, 2022

Games and Play

On New Year’s Eve, the postman delivered a copy of a new book from Bloomsbury, Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism. It contains my essay, “Games and Play: Being Human in the Universe of Technical Images”. ...

Welcome, and thanks for visiting. The site is about writing, which I most often take to be a technology for "translating" sound to surface, ephemeral event to durable text, embodied to disembodied authority. I know there's a before, after, and "in addition to" as well: there are amazing ancient writing systems, or lines made by electrocardiographs or weather forecasting instruments that count as writing for me as well. And there's the threat of a deference to robotic readers undermining human language as such. I'm optimistic, however.

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