Stratahttps://strata.damonzucconi.comen-ushttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/73453https://strata.damonzucconi.com/73453As you read this sentence, circuits in your brain are adjusting your posture, controlling your breathing, and transforming lines and curves on the screen into recognizable words.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:53:24 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/73123https://strata.damonzucconi.com/73123Everyone deserves everything.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:29:05 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/73024https://strata.damonzucconi.com/73024Intelligence is a unit of information driving a unit of energy.Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:19:40 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/71968https://strata.damonzucconi.com/71968A codec does not really exist until everyone can decode it.Sun, 31 May 2026 13:29:40 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/70813https://strata.damonzucconi.com/70813https://dynamic.atlas.auspic.es/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJhdGxhcy1wcm9kdWN0aW9uIiwia2V5IjoiNjU3MC80OTMzZWY3ZDEzNDRmNDBlN2IyYmM0YjYyOTA1NTk2ZDNiZDU1ZTk5NjU0YzY4ODRmOGYyMzc0ZDhmNTA0ZDE1LmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6NDc4LCJoZWlnaHQiOjIzNSwiZml0IjoiaW5zaWRlIn0sIndlYnAiOnsicXVhbGl0eSI6NzV9LCJqcGVnIjp7InF1YWxpdHkiOjc1fSwicm90YXRlIjpudWxsfX0=Wed, 06 May 2026 19:06:29 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/70714https://strata.damonzucconi.com/70714Sentimentality for objects is a symptom of capitalismWed, 06 May 2026 13:49:16 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/70681https://strata.damonzucconi.com/70681Some authors deserve to be replacedWed, 06 May 2026 11:41:45 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/68074https://strata.damonzucconi.com/68074Cancer is a disease of information.Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:11:35 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/66434https://strata.damonzucconi.com/66434Some texts aren’t accessible to all minds artificial or otherwiseFri, 06 Feb 2026 01:14:22 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/63033https://strata.damonzucconi.com/63033Fast is fine, but accuracy is final.Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:45:01 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/62967https://strata.damonzucconi.com/62967[...] our economic system has shifted to just-in-time over the past fifty years, and while it's great for efficiency, efficiency is the reciprocal of resilience.Sun, 19 Oct 2025 12:02:16 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/59446https://strata.damonzucconi.com/59446[...] people simply can’t accept that patterns carry their own intelligence, quite apart from the semantic content that clings to their surfaces; if you manipulate the topology correctly, that content just comes along for the ride.Sun, 03 Aug 2025 22:04:34 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/58786https://strata.damonzucconi.com/58786https://dynamic.atlas.auspic.es/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJhdGxhcy1wcm9kdWN0aW9uIiwia2V5IjoiMS82bWZoazFMY29tN2VMZlJFLnBuZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6Nzc4LCJoZWlnaHQiOjEwMDAsImZpdCI6Imluc2lkZSJ9LCJ3ZWJwIjp7InF1YWxpdHkiOjc1fSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo3NX0sInJvdGF0ZSI6bnVsbH19Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:17:36 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/57159https://strata.damonzucconi.com/57159The protocol doesn't judge your life choices.Sat, 28 Jun 2025 17:12:00 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/56169https://strata.damonzucconi.com/56169May we scale smoothly, exponentially and uneventfully through superintelligence.Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:40:48 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/56103https://strata.damonzucconi.com/56103https://dynamic.atlas.auspic.es/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJhdGxhcy1wcm9kdWN0aW9uIiwia2V5IjoiMS91RndWbTdPRzZxOG9ZN3U3LnBuZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJ3aWR0aCI6NjQ2LCJoZWlnaHQiOjUzOSwiZml0IjoiaW5zaWRlIn0sIndlYnAiOnsicXVhbGl0eSI6NzV9LCJqcGVnIjp7InF1YWxpdHkiOjc1fSwicm90YXRlIjpudWxsfX0=Tue, 10 Jun 2025 20:09:17 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/55745https://strata.damonzucconi.com/55745[...] and I owe everything to Killing Joke, because Killing Joke was the principle of self-education that got me thereThu, 05 Jun 2025 13:48:58 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/54684https://strata.damonzucconi.com/54684Second, we must design for discovery rather than prediction, creating systems (from personal routines to whole cities) that can quickly detect and amplify what works rather than trying to foresee it in advance.Fri, 23 May 2025 14:11:40 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/53661https://strata.damonzucconi.com/53661I know now that almost everyone wonders something like that, sooner or later and no matter what he or she is doing, but one of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before.Wed, 07 May 2025 01:02:41 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/53628https://strata.damonzucconi.com/53628It’s hard to imagine a prejudice more deeply ingrained than our prejudice against entities that are visibly spatially discontinuousTue, 06 May 2025 01:08:55 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/53529https://strata.damonzucconi.com/53529Graphologically speaking, the art of Cy Twombly poses an aberration. His paintings feature handwritten words inscribed in such a way as to avoid offering any clues to him or his character or his inside state. Scribbled, scrawled, gauche, idle, unlovely – the hand is no one’s, or everyone’s, or mythic, or just a stain left behind by something written there before. A mark with no person in it. No shame.Sat, 03 May 2025 17:16:29 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/53496https://strata.damonzucconi.com/53496Handwriting is a mark from inside me that I put outside me, often with a view to showing, telling, communicating. It carries what Gerard Manley Hopkins calls ‘the inscape’ out. Sat, 03 May 2025 13:54:01 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/52242https://strata.damonzucconi.com/52242The whole history of the universe can be understood as a sequence of condensations.Mon, 07 Apr 2025 23:02:54 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/50460https://strata.damonzucconi.com/50460The arrow of time in such a universe would, therefore, be inherited, through torsion, from the parent universe.Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:01:07 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/49143https://strata.damonzucconi.com/49143No thought can exist without a sustaining supportSat, 22 Feb 2025 14:36:29 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/49041https://strata.damonzucconi.com/49041Meanings that only a few have access to are secrets. In the absence of meaning, the illusion of a secret is created by imposing a subcultural barrier to entry where only through an opaque process of scene work can one ‘get’ it (or, if you’re unlucky: if you gotta ask you’ll never know…). Alternatively, they are wrapped in the veil of an elusive X-factor, to which only a privileged few, i.e. the creative director, have direct access.Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:16:57 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/47325https://strata.damonzucconi.com/47325I've got a message for you; From the monopinesWed, 22 Jan 2025 19:03:47 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/46830https://strata.damonzucconi.com/46830One of the cruelest aspects of human ephemerality is that all the settled traditions, all the familiar experiences that feel so permanent and fundamental in childhood, are in fact the product of a contingent constellation of people whom death is always mowing down.Sat, 11 Jan 2025 02:09:10 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/45180https://strata.damonzucconi.com/45180Remember, you cannot make normal more normal because that is abnormal.Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:40:19 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/45147https://strata.damonzucconi.com/45147Great art should evoke powerful emotions or thoughts that can be brought forth in no other way. If art merely conjured the same experience that could be attained through knowledge of the author’s identity alone, there would be no point in making it, or going to see it, or writing about it. If an artwork’s affective power derives from the artist’s biography rather than the work, then self-expression is redundant; when the self is more important than the expression, true culture becomes impossible.Tue, 19 Nov 2024 23:44:22 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/44553https://strata.damonzucconi.com/44553And more often than not, it’s the bag, because bags are easy to put on, take off, pass around. Bags fit everyone. You can wear them with cheap clothes and they still speak a universal language of luxe. Their transferability, combined with their much-vaunted sexual overtones (in Freudian terms, “the little bag [is] representative of the Venus shell, the female genitalia”), make bags particularly powerful coins in the oneiric currency of symbols.Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:25:14 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/44389https://strata.damonzucconi.com/44389The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.Thu, 17 Oct 2024 12:16:34 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/43233https://strata.damonzucconi.com/43233Much has been written on the ethics of plagiarism. One aspect that has received less notice is plagiarism’s role in corrupting our ability to learn from data: We propose that plagiarism is a statistical crime. It involves the hiding of important information regarding the source and context of the copied work in its original form. Such information can dramatically alter the statistical inferences made about the work.Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:52:33 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/42441https://strata.damonzucconi.com/42441I wouldn't want to be found dead next to a psychic.Wed, 04 Sep 2024 13:35:59 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/42013https://strata.damonzucconi.com/42013When even the label is identical to the official version, what’s the difference? The intangibles of buying in a high-end store? The tissue wrapping and branded ribbons? All the things that disappear from the item as soon as it’s worn or used?Fri, 30 Aug 2024 12:31:14 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/42012https://strata.damonzucconi.com/42012Then there are “ghost shift” fakes, made at the same factories that produce the “authentic” items, out of hours, producing hauntological pieces that fit Jaques Derrida’s definition of “a shadow of ontology, the ghost of a metaphysics.” Haunted by a state of non-being, these items both are and are not originals.Fri, 30 Aug 2024 12:30:38 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/34599https://strata.damonzucconi.com/34599https://dynamic.atlas.auspic.es/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJhdGxhcy1wcm9kdWN0aW9uIiwia2V5IjoiMS9RTEtDS21VZXhONHJrbkF5LmpwZWciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsid2lkdGgiOjEwMDAsImhlaWdodCI6NTIyLCJmaXQiOiJpbnNpZGUifSwid2VicCI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo3NX0sImpwZWciOnsicXVhbGl0eSI6NzV9LCJyb3RhdGUiOm51bGx9fQ==Fri, 31 May 2024 18:44:19 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/34530https://strata.damonzucconi.com/34530He said, ‘Look, it’s all the same thing. Movie business, construction business: it’s telling people what you want, and making sure they do it.’Tue, 14 May 2024 12:59:28 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/34488https://strata.damonzucconi.com/34488It is a mystery how things come to belong to us and even more why from certain things it is impossible to part [...]Thu, 02 May 2024 12:21:57 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/34450https://strata.damonzucconi.com/34450THIS ESSAY IS ENCHANTED with sanctity in a heterodox sense, as a state of being outré, out of the way, surprised, surprising. We want to see a naked sanctity, the saint denuded of doctrinal dress, a kind of holiness we cannot properly look upon. In order to achieve this vision, to produce the appearance of what is not given to gaze at directly, our essay works by a kind of hermeneutic triangulation, taking aim at a space between and within a saint and a transgressor of the sacred: Angela of Foligno (d. 1309) and Actaeon. Distant, Angela and Actaeon are yet next to each other in fascinating ways related to language, body, presence, vision, and metamorphosis. Like two stars in a constellation, they are close in separation, far apart only to appear impossibly proximate. Most conspicuously, Angela and Actaeon are corporeally near in nakedness and disintegration. Where Angela strips herself to stand naked before the cross, Actaeon is rendered animally nude by mutation into a stag. Where Actaeon is torn apart by his hounds after seeing a god- dess, Angela’s limbs are separated when God enters and withdraws from her body. The where of these conjunctions, the unwitnessable place they reveal, is an unseeable state of identity between transgression and sanctity. We call this secret locale dislocation.Sat, 27 Apr 2024 12:52:49 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/34313https://strata.damonzucconi.com/34313I would like to create the 0.1-second sound which condenses all emotions in the universe. When I listen to it, maybe my mind and existence itself will collapse.Sat, 06 Apr 2024 12:31:00 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/34238https://strata.damonzucconi.com/34238https://dynamic.atlas.auspic.es/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJhdGxhcy1wcm9kdWN0aW9uIiwia2V5IjoiMS80RVlLbG9idzhzWkdVcUowLmpwZWciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsid2lkdGgiOjc1MCwiaGVpZ2h0Ijo1NDAsImZpdCI6Imluc2lkZSJ9LCJ3ZWJwIjp7InF1YWxpdHkiOjc1fSwianBlZyI6eyJxdWFsaXR5Ijo3NX0sInJvdGF0ZSI6bnVsbH19Wed, 27 Mar 2024 01:19:19 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/34237https://strata.damonzucconi.com/34237Some years ago, after having a weeping eye repeatedly misdiagnosed, Mr. Serra learned from his doctors that he had cancer of the tear duct in his left eye. He was told that the remedy was simple — they would have to remove the eye — but that the prognosis was good. Typically undaunted and determined not to compromise his vision or his work as an artist, Mr. Serra declined the surgery.Tue, 26 Mar 2024 23:40:48 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/33475https://strata.damonzucconi.com/33475Style is never a fiction, it is only it.Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:24:05 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/32973https://strata.damonzucconi.com/32973Once you see intelligence as something embodied by particular pile of data rather than a particular kind of processing, a very powerful sort of decentering of anthropocentric conceits happens; a Copernican consciousness shift gets triggered. You are no more than the sum of data you’ve experienced. A big memory with a small shell script aside. And once you get over the trauma of that realization, you realize something even bigger: any pile of data that has some coherence in its source can be turned into an intelligence that you can relate to, broadening the possibilities of your own existence.Sat, 09 Dec 2023 13:09:23 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/32972https://strata.damonzucconi.com/32972We can know more than we can tell.Sat, 09 Dec 2023 12:50:38 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/32963https://strata.damonzucconi.com/32963Beige flagsThu, 07 Dec 2023 13:17:53 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/32888https://strata.damonzucconi.com/32888This says something about queerness as the performative use of language, not to describe objects directly but to synthesize text with texture to create a situation – a little like a fashion editorial with its vital descriptive captions, which Roland Barthes called the “vestimentary linguistics.” “It is not the object but the name that creates desire; it is not the dream but the meaning that sells,” he wrote in The Fashion System (1967). If desire is the hinge on the epistemological closet door that links the IRL texture to the text, Barthes aligns desire with capitalism: with what “sells.”Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:07:11 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/32799https://strata.damonzucconi.com/32799Assume everyone is grievingSat, 04 Nov 2023 02:51:52 GMThttps://strata.damonzucconi.com/32450https://strata.damonzucconi.com/32450Baby, I can't text you, I'm not a authorMon, 18 Sep 2023 15:59:26 GMT