Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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all sonar can detect is the past

B.) YOU’RE THE CAPTAIN of an American destroyer escort. Your ship is equipped with sonar. You transmit a ping, wait for the echo, ping and wait for the echo. Though whenever you ping a U-boat, by the time its echo is received, by the time its echo is processed, the U-boat’s in another place, but th…

—p.653 Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction A (Short) History (509) by Joshua Cohen
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amanuensis

though Twain left its typing to an amanuensis.

—p.621 A (Short) History (509) by Joshua Cohen
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whatever directs existence toward utility

Technology, to Heidegger, is whatever directs existence toward utility. Its expression is solely in its “enframing” (Ge-Stell), or the way by which technology recontextualizes all objects and even subjects by function: stones enframed as cutters of stones, rocks as producers of fire—a painting fram…

—p.620 A (Short) History (509) by Joshua Cohen