ahnaf is it worth reading all those books

theres a kind of a cowardice to generative art that i want to avoid though. i want the kind of relationship to this thing that a game designer has to a game engine

a version of this existed for a few months last year but it was static. it was HTML with writing and pictures and videos and sounds. i had this feeling that the code should be as important as the content, that structurally each piece in relation to each other piece shouldn't change, that the mazelike quality should emerge from me intricately arranging paths through it. like classic hypertext

as in

like people can read 100 books and still not have the fire within them

its performative

It's

dusk

in a snowy forest and I'm playing with a fox.
It bites my wrist but there is only a dull ache.
I feel that it wants to say sorry but can't. I die.

Lift Analysis

we can only engage in such a way

think this is much more rhizomatic or immanent or mazelike than mainstream education now

you cannot feed someone truth

so the method has to be autonomous

Style

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 23:18:46

After thinking and forgetting and thinking and forgetting

okay im going very rogue and very inarticulate

or never left

lol yea

FOUNDING DOCUMENT

in a way what we are really interested in with pedagogy is the magnetisation

IWGD

Lift Analysis

Like the tide, it comes in and it washes over the beach. It's beautiful. But like the tide it goes out, sometimes it goes out further than it ever has, it recedes back across the beach and further out beyond the horizon. The bare seabed opens up in front of you and all you can do is look at it.

i have read not even 1 book