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Interfacing Technologies

Posted: 2025-03-11   |   Categories: essays   |   Tags: abstraction, extension, interfaces, philosophy, technology

Here are some notes toward an essay that I would like to structure more, but the more I type the more I find and I’m trying to bring it to a point where I can call it finished and expand on these ideas in other pieces.

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In her rant about technology, Ursula K. LeGuin describes technology as the “active human interface with the world”. She reminds us that technology’s prime function is to interact with our surroundings and that this privilege is not restricted to what she calls “hi tech”:

Foundations

Posted: 2025-02-20   |   Categories: poetry   |   Tags: bodies, material

I.

You are your body.
You take up space.
All acts are bodily acts.
You act on this world.

II.

You are what you know.
You are what you do.
You are what you know to do.
You are not what you own.

III.

You know very little.
You know different things from everyone else.
You share what you know to do.
Others are like you.

IV.

You listen to what others share.
You help others in doing.
What you know to do can change.
Learn to become a changed thing.