ruins

THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY SEVEN

From Ellen Ullman: “We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.”

Léopold Lambert, from The Speech of Things. “A ruin is not, however, a proof as such. Only a narrative that would integrate the ruin as the object of its plot could transform it into one. The degree of consistency of this narrative is consequently proportional to the degree of truth that it will reach. InContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY”