I love reading essays and interesting articles and trying to share them with other people who I think might find them interesting! I decided to make a little blog post to collect some of them in one place!

DNF or: The Art of Performative Not Reading by Ira Madison III

“I’ve never found the argument of “performative reading” to be serious. Maybe the dudes who read Infinite Jest or Gravity’s Rainbow in public are being performative. But we live in an era where people are severely lacking in independent thought and love being told what to do.”

What We Think is a Decline in Literacy is a Design Problem by Carlo Iacono

“I used to believe, as I was taught, that literacy was primarily about decoding text. But watching how people actually learn and think has convinced me that literacy is about something deeper: the capacity to construct and navigate environments where understanding becomes possible.”

How Saving Replaced Reading by Hana Lee Goldin

“Almost everyone who spends time online lives with a version of the same archive: a pile of saved-for-later material we’ve been meaning to get back to.”

Can Humans Ever Understand How Animals Think? by Adam Kirsch

“In Godfrey-Smith’s words, an octopus is “probably the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien”. When such a being encounters a human at the bottom of the ocean, what could it possibly make of us?”

Have you read anything interesting lately?