The Size of Life: On Dino Buzzati’s “The Singularity”
Buzzati makes a case for the necessary limitations of the “wretched flesh” in which we experience life, experience that cannot be reduced to the digital binary—singular experience.
Observer Effect: On Meghan O’Gieblyn’s “God Human Animal Machine”
The earth was not at all made to someday host plants, animals, or us. Life, in its tenacity, has just scratched out a little foothold. None of this is for us. Really: None of this is for anything at all.