a. natasha joukovsky
extracts blog
After Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, where he tracks allusions to whales and cetology, I keep a running list of references to recursion, innovation, mythology, and glamour.
David Foster Wallace | INFINITE JEST
"But there's some sort of revealing lesson here in the beyond-short-term viability-curve of advances in consumer technology. The career of vidophony conforms neatly to this curve's classically annular shape..."
Roger Martin | THE DESIGN OF BUSINESS
"The longer-term effect of the capital markets’ preference for remaining at the same knowledge stage is stagnation. At some point, exploitation activities will run out of steam..."
Virginia Postrel | THE POWER OF GLAMOUR
"glamour can serve many purposes: individual and collective; personal, social, commercial, or political. The story of glamour is the story of human longing and its cultural manifestations..."
Andrew Russell and Lee Vinsel | HAIL THE MAINTAINERS
"In formal economic terms, ‘innovation’ involves the diffusion of new things and practices. The term is completely agnostic about whether these things and practices are good..."