Saturday, January 29, 2011

The night began with some of the most ambiguous words in the language: "I'll text you."

And I think it ended with the words "don't go liking me or anything."

This is where machines intervene. Robots have no feelings, but they carry and distribute intimacy. Identity lives in databases and your heart moves there when you don't think about it.



Love becomes an automatic piloting mechanism, like the mind that actually keeps an airplane upright, a computer. You enter a connection and recognize its flaws, its weak points, its liabilities and greatest assets, and then you power it without working. One disturbance here affects something across the world. One change of lighting, one word, changes the entire arrangement. Love is a matter of balancing pressures, finding media, finding that one is medial, mediating between and without.


Thursday, January 6, 2011

Can you (begin to) explain these statistics?

Many ignored causes...

Oakland, CA: population 399,000
London, England: population 7.5 million

In 2009, London had 15 murders.
Oakland had more than 100 (the SF Chronicle website on the topic is no longer updated...)