spaces
- culture
from this morning's journal entry on culture
- Ghosts of Bombay
Katherine shared an irksomely amusing observation with me recently. A number of people have corrected her when she uses the name Bombay instead of Mumbai. My suggestion to her was to respond to such feedback with, "Sorry but I know more than you." Of course, the reason she uses Bombay and not the temporally accurate Mumbai is because I do. We were having this conversation with our friend Shuba, another Detroiter from Bombay, while she was on a break during her Sunday shift at Coriander Kitchen
- A week in Beijing
An itinerary and some things I found useful from a trip to Beijing with short layovers in Istanbul.
travel, architecture, art, spaces, China, Beijing, Turkey, Istanbul, language
- Detroit
A poem about Detroit
- The "metaverse" is not the "metaverse"
Viewing the contemporary conversation on the "metaverse" through the dystopian lens of Snow Crash.
- Default spaces
We don't spend enough time thinking about the spaces where we spend the majority of our lives. At least not in ways that demonstrate agency and autonomy. Cities, schools, offices, homes, vehicles, department stores, malls. Most of these end up being default choices resulting in a lot of time spent in default spaces. You might argue that we do think a lot about some of these, especially our homes, but even those choices end up being default or default adjacent. A majority of the people I kn