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Resonant Thoughts: Kyle Beachy’s “The Most Fun Thing” (2021)
“In a world increasingly data driven and surveilled, skateboarding lives beneath scoring and resists all datazation by establishing everything as a performance. It deflects the surveillance state by its primal devotion to documenting and sharing itself, monitoring every possible development, repetition, and failure. It preempts the onslaught of observation by embracing it. To preempt is… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Niklas Luhmann On Taking Notes And Producing Accidents (1981)
“The communication with the slip box becomes fruitful only at a high level of generalization, namely that of establishing communicative relations of relations. And it becomes productive only at the moment of evaluation, and is thus bound to a certain time and is to a high degree accidental. […] The real problem thus becomes therefore… Continue reading
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