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Stay.

"Digitalization necessarily leads to the disappearance of the Other. By way of digital media we try to make the Other available to us, to bring the Other as close as possible. But the attempt to make the Other freely available to us destroys the Other. Digital media do not create more closeness but only a lack of distance. Closeness is not the absence of distance. The lack of distance removes any remoteness and thus also closeness. Lack of distance makes the Other disappear. The smartphone makes the Other available by reifying the Other. It turns a You into an It." —Byung-Chul Han via

Untitled poem.

"ode to the desire to punish"

standing outside
the room where
real thought buoys

statehood on globes

Shanzhai.