[...] the crucial part of Kranzberg’s observation is that technology is never neutral. And the crucial technology, in this story, is writing. A practice that binds humans and machines in a pattern of relationships, without which most of what we call civilization is impossible. Writing technologies, being foundational to our ways of life, are never socially or politically neutral in their effects. Anyone who has lived through the rise of the internet, the spread of the smartphone and the ascent of social media platforms will have seen a remarkable shift taking place. As writing has morphed from analogue to digital, it has become massively ubiquitous. Never before in human history have people written so much, so frantically: texting, tweeting, thumb-typing on public transport, updating statuses during work breaks, scrolling and clicking in front of glowing screens at 3 a.m. To some extent, this is an extension of changes in the workplace, where computer-mediated communication means that writing takes up an ever-larger share of production. And, indeed, there is an important sense in which the writing we’re doing now is work, albeit unpaid. But it is also indicative of new, or unleashed, passions.
We are, abruptly, scripturient – possessed by a violent desire to write, incessantly.
— Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine
My job is typing on the computer, and I work from home, so I think it would be healthy to be less "online". These pages redirect some of that social media energy to a place with no viewers and no endless reactions and counter-reactions. Because I had already made this site when I decided to add a blog, it is made by manually compiling Sass and Jinja templates instead of using a static site generator. Feature creep.
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