To the extent that the human nervous system craves this structure, if that is true, then it seems like something that's going to be hard to escape from. The world that we live in is foremost a world of things and a world of commodities that are not iterated because they're repeated. There's no iteration, there are no aberrations, any aberration is thrown out the window,. It ends up in the landfill or it just gets melted down or what have you. What we're currently facing is a world where it's not a question of having trees Iterating other trees, it's a question of facing smartphones and facing cars and facing houses that are all quite literally repeating
In this episode, Mike Gathers chats with Sascha Engel about the themes of his book, Breaking the Alphabet and the tyranny of the written word.
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