very, very abstract

[droqen]

A letter in response to jack's "worlds of time."

[AB]

[droqen]

NONREPRESENTATIONAL MODES OF AGENCY

[droqen]

RED RED RED RED RED RED RED

[droqen]

abstractness is capable of, or makes us capable of, seeing things in something closer to their pure and timeless form without the distraction of mere coincidental connections du jour.

this is not some unambiguous good, but it is something i love, whatever consequences may come.

the final sentence of the epilogue of dreyfus & kelly's all things shining is: "all things are not shining, but all the shining things are."

i have made it through to the other side.

[droqen]

does it go the other way? i wrote to someone, once, that games do help me make sense of the world, and i think part of that is a beautiful illusion. some part must be true, though, too. if a videogame allows me to isolate some very small, very abstract part of reality, and gives me a deep understanding of what that part is, in itself, as isolated from everything else...

do i gain something?