Jeremy P. Bushnell

On the dearly departed "blogosphere," other people's newsletters, and the poet Anne Boyer's COVID-19 writings

On Bernadette Mayer's "Memory"

On cyberpunk aesthetics, Gerhard Richter, Hanne Darboven, and the 500 books written by an eighteenth century German political prisoner

On the status of painting under capitalism, Andrea Fraser's fake tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and how "scientific philanthropists" hobbled the welfare state at the turn of the twentieth century

On the Long Now Foundation, Jeff Bezos' obscene accumulation of wealth, and the Landscape of Thorns

"We can problematize time. The world is not finished."

On monstrous compendiums, Scandanavian role playing games, indie cartoonist Mat Brinkman, Tolkien’s orcs, and the moral beliefs of fantasy creatures

On the long history of stories written by computers

"The Harrisons have done dozens of projects, many of which also strive to undo the 'arbitrary divides' that prevent us from visualizing the contiguous megastructures of the natural world."

"I want to create architecture," Toyo Ito has written, "like an unstable flowing body."

"He is the only philosopher interested in happiness as the supreme human achievement."

"The cinema must therefore never copy the stage. The cinema, being essentially visual, must above all fulfill the evolution of painting, detach itself from reality, from photography[.]"