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“What I mean is, no customers, no cool. It’s about a group behavior pattern around a particular class of object. What I do is pattern recognition. I try to recognize a pattern before anyone else does.” “And then?” “I point a commodifier at it.”
“How do you feel when you watch it?” He looks down at his noodles, then up at her. “Lonely?” “Most people find that that deepens. Becomes sort of polyphonic. Then there’s a sense that it’s going somewhere, that something will happen. Will change.”
A description of life.
“I’ve tried to convince myself of that. I’ve wanted to believe it, simply in order to let the thing go. But then I go back and look at it again, and there’s that sense of . . . I don’t know. Of an opening into something. Universe? Narrative?” “Eat your noodles. Then we can talk.”
no-content marketing,
Win’s clever neurological explanation of déjà vu.
History erased via the substitution of an identical object.
preglobalized,
participation mystique
