Aesthetic Dot Computer

Aesthetic Dot Computer

Readings of essays from Aesthetic.Computer, in @jeffrey's voice. Each episode is a single essay read start to finish sourced from A mobile-first runtime and social network for creative computing, read aloud. papers.aesthetic.computer

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  1. -2 ч

    Aesthetic July 4 '26

    Independence is a hanging word. Underneath it is the Latin dependere, to hang from, the same root that gives us the pendant hanging from a neck, the pendulum hanging from its pivot, and everything pending, which hangs over you until it is decided. To be dependent is to hang from something. To be independent is, literally, not to hang. Two months ago I wrote an essay built on may, the softest verb in English, and a month after that one built on commit, the word that stops being a pun when you type it four hundred times. The calendar has handed me a third word, and a loud anniversary to say it on: the Declaration turns two hundred and fifty this year. So this is a special, not the July essay, which will come when July is over and can be told honestly, but a day trip into one word, taken from the middle of the month it belongs to. Read the essay: https://papers.aesthetic.computer/aesthetic-july-4-26-essay.pdf More readings + papers: https://papers.aesthetic.computer

    13 мин.
  2. Aesthetic June '26

    -5 дн.

    Aesthetic June '26

    A month ago I wrote an essay in the conditional. It was called Aesthetic May '26, and every sentence in it hedged, the project may do this, may become that. I called the list of maybes a cloud and meant it as a confession. Then June happened, and I want to tell you how. Read the essay: https://papers.aesthetic.computer/aesthetic-june-26-essay.pdf More readings + papers: https://papers.aesthetic.computer

    8 мин.

  3. 31 мая

    Aesthetic May '26

    May is two words sharing a spelling. One is a month. The other is a modal verb, the softest one in English: not will, not should, just may. The month is named for Maia, the Roman goddess of growth. The verb is what we use when we are being honest about not knowing. Read the essay: https://papers.aesthetic.computer/aesthetic-may-26-essay.pdf More readings + papers: https://papers.aesthetic.computer

    14 мин.
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Readings of essays from Aesthetic.Computer, in @jeffrey's voice. Each episode is a single essay read start to finish sourced from A mobile-first runtime and social network for creative computing, read aloud. papers.aesthetic.computer

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