Deifying algorithms and quantum computers is untruthful; it is manipulative. It is the very slipperiness on which a technocratic, self-referential satire must rely in order to win over its human viewers.

The most iconic (and gendered) ‘wannabe’ story of the millennial era is probably The Little Mermaid.

The major 20th century sculptor should be understood, first and foremost, in relation to his materials: stones, whose heft belies their grace.

“Of course, the cigarette is not smoking the father. But we also can’t say that the father, in the fullest autonomy and in possession of his free will, deliberately smokes the cigarette.”

- Vinciane Despret

We all look for ways, I think, to be proud of our ancestors: to cast some light on them that makes them taller, broader, more dignified than their corpses in the ground would have us believe they were. Maybe this pride is an antidote to the present’s shame and regret.