An older notebook, still connected
The archive is part of this site’s memory: books, questions, and earlier ways of paying attention.
I started keeping reading notes here long before the current projects. Rather than replace that archive with a polished retrospective, I want to make a few doors into it easier to find. The entries below summarize what I wrote then; they do not imply a recent rereading.
Distrust That Particular Flavor
I was interested in watching ideas develop across Gibson’s essays and later appear in fiction, and in his comments on those earlier pieces from a later vantage point.
Fatal System Error
The note follows the people and institutions responding to cybercrime: informal networks of defenders, cooperation, and the limits imposed by jurisdiction.
The Swerve
I wrote about the transmission and rediscovery of Lucretius through Poggio’s story, and the book’s invitation to read the older work itself.
Read across the years
There are useful connections without pretending every interest was part of a plan. The older security reading sits beside today’s agent-boundary questions. A notebook that preserves an earlier point of view sits beside the problem of continuity. The language research asks what an utterance supports; Informivore asks what an observation warrants.