Aesthetic Dot Computer

Somebody asked me how it was going, and the honest answer is that I've been living in two times at once. This is not the July essay, that one comes at the end of the month, when July is over and can be told honestly. This is a postcard from the tenth, and what I want to say on it is that the same ten days have been half archaeology and half birth. In the morning I dig up something a decade ol...

Independence is a hanging word. Underneath it is the Latin dependere, to hang from, the same root that gives us the pendant hanging from a neck, the pendulum hanging from its pivot, and everything pending, which hangs over you until it is decided. To be dependent is to hang from something. To be independent is, literally, not to hang. Two months ago I wrote an essay built on may, the softest verb...

A month ago I wrote an essay in the conditional. It was called Aesthetic May '26, and every sentence in it hedged, the project may do this, may become that. I called the list of maybes a cloud and meant it as a confession. Then June happened, and I want to tell you how. Read the essay: https://papers.aesthetic.computer/aesthetic-june-26-essay.pdf More readings + papers: https://papers.aesthet...

May is two words sharing a spelling. One is a month. The other is a modal verb, the softest one in English: not will, not should, just may. The month is named for Maia, the Roman goddess of growth. The verb is what we use when we are being honest about not knowing. Read the essay: https://papers.aesthetic.computer/aesthetic-may-26-essay.pdf More readings + papers: https://papers.aesthetic.computer