by orchaeus | Apr 20, 2018 | Status Update
The mission is impossible for an unexpected reason: the impossible is our mission.
by orchaeus | Apr 18, 2018 | Status Update
“Today, a single affluent family has more timepieces at home than a medieval nation.” A single family may have as many as 40 devices that tell them ‘mechanical time’, which is fake time — decontexted from nature and actual physical...
by orchaeus | Apr 18, 2018 | Status Update
In our ‘modern’ world, where ordinary people are competing to ‘rank’ in a new mode of relatively fake celebrity, the desire to ‘post content that acquires likes and instigates envy in unknown others’ often leads to extreme harm,...
by orchaeus | Apr 18, 2018 | Status Update
My grandmother spent endless hours in the kitchen cooking and washing dishes by hand. Although the dishes qualified as ‘a chore’, it is clear to me that a lot more was going on there. Washing dishes by hand, with care, was a kind of meditation or therapy...
by orchaeus | Apr 18, 2018 | Status Update
“It is not possible for us to forget what it means to be an animal and yet remember what it is to be human; for we are animals, first and foremost, and the wrongful amnesias our cultures forcibly impose upon us to are not merely deprivations… they amputate...
by orchaeus | Apr 17, 2018 | Status Update
“One can usefully imagine the mind as a hand. The metaphor is excellent, and true. The problem is this: most of what we are trained to see, think, say, like, and desire… involves ‘only the perspective from the tip of the index finger’. From...
