Technology & Nostalgia

I happened upon this old 1977 video of Marshall McLuhan where he predicts the effects of technology on humanity and I can’t stop thinking about it. I haven’t heard of McLuhan before now, but the way that we have digitized ourselves, creating alternate avatars online and giving up our corpus, resonates in a heavy manner […]

I miss

I miss sinking into a beat-up sofa in a musty coffeeshop, green awning, on the corner of my rental stoop in Park Slope, opening a book. I miss drinking coffee not for the taste but for the feeling it gave me. I miss a summer when I didn’t have a career and couldn’t have predicted […]