, , Almost everything else in the soft assemblies of most organisms works by endless

iteration , multiplication , or trial and error .

, , The world is run on irrationality and
comedy that often will not compute
within our philosophies. Many things
change not because of logical proof or a
reasonable plan but because of irrational
desires.
, , They are persuasions rather than
arguments that start nowhere and move
across populations. Perhaps many of the
world's most puzzling problems-
problems that resist rational explanation-
reside in this outlying territory.

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, , Design is an excellent arena in which to observe the relentlessly human as well as the
possibilities of the more than human [ ...] design can also be about extending other powers
of that nervous system. There are so many underexploited faculties of voice, skin, skeleton,
muscles in interplay with other solids, photons, and waves. The more than human doesn't
negate human design; it only multiplies those designs in a larger field so that there are
always many instead of only one.
Illustration by Gabrielle Matte
, , Beyond the design of things is the
design of the medium in which
they are suspended , and beyond
the design of a totalizing medium is
the design of an iterative
medium [ ...] But just as navigating
a river is indeterminate to be
practical, time-released designs
offer an unfolding, indeterminate
set of changes that continually [s ubh e ad ]

redirect away from the loop and

the binary.
, , English is an advanced [pool] technique that can't be predicted, but it can be exploited . It
is less about the intention of the shooter and more about something between the moving
solids outside the human skin. The player who can continue to set up potentials and
options can play the table longer. It is something like being too smart to be right.

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Nathaniel A Rivers, 2020