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a reindustrialization of the US homeland with the prosperity and sense of a national project that would bring along with an expansion of the national security apparatuses to train a new officer class, one that would include all kinds of overseas appointments and adventures, along with letters of marque and other private adjuncts to the state
design sentences not so much as to be read as to be used
Building implicit and explicit assignments, things a user would have to “do” in order to use, is important—as an interface, you want to draw upon certain irreducible contexts that would have to be reconstructed at some point down the road, maybe hypothetically. Have parts that don’t quite fit; frustrate certain expectations; impose a kind of self-selection upon your users—not only in the sense that some will opt in and others won’t, but in the sense that each user will have to select the self fit to use the writing.
It’s not enough to say, “well, what I meant was…”.
Your point is not your point.
What we say goes all around the world on wires dug under the ground, powered by massive amounts of energy mined and transported, preserved in data farms soaking in huge pools of water, our words move across various jurisdictions, subject to ever changing terms of service, might surface in various times and places, be remade and rewoven with other words and images in ways we can only partially anticipate—and all this is part of what we say.
Write as if a single sentence contains an entire universe of discourse, and thereby stage the succession of your practice.
