The Last Thing to Be Externalized
When I think about marriage, I sometimes suspect the order has been reversed. Today, marriage is …
What Was Called a Day
I woke at nine at night. The room was dark. It had been dark when I lay down. Outside the window …
A Fire That Was Not Cool
A few days before Independence Day, I saw the news that a Tibetan man had self-immolated in fron …
Inside a Universe Without an Outside
When I try to think about human beings, I find that I cannot begin with human beings. Human happ …
That Owner, That Dog
Lately, when I look at Pokémon, I sometimes wonder why the trainers don’t just fight themselves. …
A Rationalized Society, and Life as a Bug in the Universe
Recently, I read an article in a Japanese media outlet about why young people today no longer “r …
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That World Is Not True
Sometimes, in conversation, I find myself unsettled not by the other person’s logic, but by the way they seem …
Value Exists Before It Is Needed
The moment art enters the market, it begins to behave like a commodity. It is priced, owned, displayed, resold …
When the Shell of Art Circulates
Recently, I have found myself increasingly troubled by certain tendencies surrounding creative p …
Can We Build a Society That Survives Metacognition?
What do people even mean by “utopia” now? When people talk about utopia, th …
Freedom is not necessarily happiness
I think it’s because your components themselves aren’t unusual. What’s unusual is the ord …
The Fat of Social Systems
Broadly speaking, a lot of mainstream anime and manga today are willing to say, society itself is broken. But …