What Bradbury is essentially commenting on is the act of thinking: its dangers, its necessity, its potential for resistance, and the fact that it requires distraction-free time.
18 June 2026
We cannot sufficiently consider the ground on which we stand because we think from it toward something and therefore cannot think of it simultaneously.
While it is easy to come across a seemingly useless object in your neighbourhood, finding a Thomasson is a bit more challenging.
Stories, then – our stories and the stories of others – can be understood as empathy machines.
It is the work of looking which can fill us with wonder. It is tied to the amount of attention we give, the way in which we see. The act of looking itself becomes the reward.
The over-explained artwork is not an isolated phenomenon, but a symptom of a wider condition in which the space of encounter is steadily shrinking.
The question regarding the inclusion of AI into art must be analysed, for if something is not sentient can it ever truly be naked? Can it ever truly be art?
The outsider threatens to reveal something different: a new order, a new way of being, a new set of governing principles, perhaps.
We should consider all aspects of a system before making claims about its ontological status and be aware of mistaking the model for the world.
The very conditions of possibility for thinking have become subjected to the logic of algorithmic reason and extractivism, which threatens our lifeworlds.
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