January 2010
19 posts
Où sont les anti-modernes?
We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything…And yet, if we examine it more closely, our enthusiasm turns out to be all sham. We don’t want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos…We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don’t know what to do with other worlds.
—Stanslaw Lem, Solaris
the glory of living in the most densely populated borough of Europa (incidentally home to the father of the novel): a nearly infinite supply of potato chip snack packs, in imaginatively diverse flavors of meat. roasted chicken crisps at 4pm, check. (munch, crunch)
