Conversation

I think the ethos and aesthetics of modern computing - with their rigid emphasis on the smooth, the frictionless, the consistent, the compatible, the clean; with their reification of the visual over the textual and of consumption over production, etc, are super sterile and fucked up. At the same time, nostalgia is a trap. we need a future-focused aesthetics of computing at the local and personal level that isn't ruled by corporate exploitation.