Edition 003 –
Companionable Silence
Being online is often compared to being in a crowd – at one moment you're empowered by the voices and the presence of those around you, and the next, you're drowned out or stampeded over.
"Where does it start? Muscles tense. One leg a pillar, holding the body upright between the earth and sky. The other a pendulum, swinging from behind. Heel touches down. The whole weight of the body rolls forward onto the ball of the foot. The big toe pushes off, and the delicately balanced weight of the body shifts again. The legs reverse position. It starts with a step and then another step and then another that add up like taps on a drum to a rhythm, the rhythm of walking.
The most obvious and the most obscure thing in the world, this walking that wanders so readily into religion, philosophy, landscape, urban policy, anatomy, allegory, and heartbreak."
"Accordingly, confronted with a world of total design, we can only accept a catastrophe, a state of emergency, a violent rupture in the designed surface, as reason to believe that we are being allowed a view of the reality that is hidden behind it.
Following the death of God, the conspiracy theory became the only surviving form of traditional metaphysics as a discourse about the hidden and the invisible. Where we once had nature and God, we now have design and conspiracy theory."