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- Apr 2025
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embodyingcyberspace.com embodyingcyberspace.com
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Thus my addictive quest for “absolute clarity,” which is at bottom a quest for a clarification of my being that can never really be achieved.
for - new meme - addictive quest for absolute clarity - This is an instance of what David Loy calls the intrinsic sense of lack in modernity that needs to be filled, but can never be - sense of lack - David Loy - https://hyp.is/WuaFQCKZEfCFA-eSTwduzg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWRA4cUCid8
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I believe the digital age simply makes obvious the virtual nature of what we have long taken as reality, so that now, its lack of genuine substance is no longer deniable. And this is what drives us into addiction. For, no virtual substance, no one-sidedly artificial affirmation or negation, can fill in for the paradoxical actuality of our fleshly being.
for - question - lack of genuine substance drives us into addiction - need more clarity on this
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- Dec 2018
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www.wilnichols.com www.wilnichols.com
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that experience,
Which experience? I feel like the previous two paragraphs introduced enough different concepts that the antecedents here is unclear.
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The specter of upcoming departure influenced behavior in a way that removed one from reality — academics in Lyon mattered less at home, new friends would return to their countries of origin and communication would lapse, and why invest for comfort when somewhere so briefly?
This sentence is 44 words!!!
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Not in Austin, but near, and often visiting. Twenty miles North. Sometimes, further
Living twenty miles north of Austin or visiting twenty miles north? This is a confusing set of sentences. Unnecessarily truncated.
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