“This is not just a Luddite pleasure in the materiality of the book, but also an anxiety about the invisibility of the world of Photoshop, the immateriality of drone warfare, which are obviously connected, of the ease and no cost of transforming the world. There is something about the typed over typescript, about the yellowing Sellotape and roughly cut pages that have been cut and pasted together, which shows in its material form a process of thinking that is tangible—change has to be fought for. This is rendered invisible in the digital format. The cost of change disappears. ... But what is it to try and resist the algorithm? To say within the inefficiency we need to find a place for ourselves? Because it is not just images and knowledge we are finding, understand that these images are part of who we are. And the images and inefficiencies and the physical weight of the books tie us to the world in a more direct and immediate way than these invisible technologies. ” ~ An excellent evening with WK @bklynlibrary #starvethealgorithm (at Brooklyn Public Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrOD45oB93O/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ixwvo405nlt3
