September production diary: how can cameras be real if our eyes aren't real?
Added 2025-09-23 17:26:05 +0000 UTCSo much news!!
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Some great things I've read for the next video:
Etienne-Jules Marey: A Passion for the Trace (book)
'A Photograph Steals the Soul': The History of an Idea (chapter of a book)
Why it’s time to stop filming strangers in public for social media thrills (op-ed)
A Paranoid Guide to Fighting the Bugging Epidemic (article – this one's actually TERRIBLE!! But in a very revealing way lol)
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Preorder Jacob's new book, "You're Not Overthinking It" – featuring a new essay from me! – here.
Comments
hmmm probably! i can't rationalize *why* it would exist but it sure seems like it does. i haven't given it all that much thought, though, tbh.
Lily Alexandre
2025-09-29 19:53:19 +0000 UTCexciting stuff!! do you think we have free will?
verona
2025-09-29 01:16:47 +0000 UTCOh I can’t believe I forgot this: another recommendation!! Benjamín Labatut’s book WHEN WE CEASE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD is the best thing I’ve read all year. It’s a lightly fictionalized retelling of several breakthroughs in physics in Europe, leading up to World War II. Almost everything in the book is true, but it’s basically a horror novel about how quantum physics shredded our understanding of what reality is. Unreal!!!
Lily Alexandre
2025-09-25 19:08:09 +0000 UTCcongratulations! 😄
Lily Alexandre
2025-09-24 12:35:48 +0000 UTCYay wedding! (I'm getting married too!)
Claude
2025-09-24 09:02:34 +0000 UTCSuper interesting thoughts as usual! I’m getting to a stage of my transition where the changes are becoming increasingly visible, and so the concept of being perceived in public has been a lot on my mind lately too. For better and for worse: of course it feels really good and validating to be perceived in some contexts (queer spaces, etc) but scary/uncomfortable in other contexts (eg. random older men staring me down).
8 liters of soup
2025-09-23 18:08:04 +0000 UTC
