24th
Vampire Weekend - Cousins, from the new record Contra. Shut up, I don’t care, I love them.
I always prefer the both/and to the either/or. It’s why object-oriented thinking is so appealing. It’s like a pragmatism with transcendence included. The mundane and the sublime all mixed in together.
Disco Balls by Flying Lotus. Could probably just listen to this over and over for the rest of my life. I <3 Hyperdub.
It’s like I’ve joined a secret club with secret knowledge, but this one is far more friendly than the club I used be in. And questions that show a complete lack of familiarity or knowledge are answered with warmth, not derision.
From this post.
There’s something beautiful and inspiring about using the limits of our knowledge as aids in seeing just how unlimited objects are. We are limited observers, there’s whole worlds we don’t have access to (yet?). What object-oriented approaches do, to my mind, is successfully knock us off our pedestals. It’s a humbling move, but one that feels more honest. And one that opens up whole new possibilities, and seems full of hope. Harman’s writing in particular helps restore wonder to the world by admitting there are interactions we’re not privy to, and what we see is just a slice, but that slice is not ALL THERE IS.
The number of times I have accidentally tried to add, say, GMail to my Amazon wishlist with the universal add to wish list bookmarklet is ridiculously high.