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The standing reserve of the Modern World

More on your ceaseless striving for efficiency.

Alex Reynolds
Feb 28, 2022
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Last fall, during my series talking about maps, I wrote a piece called “The map lost its monsters.” You can find that one here:

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The map lost its monsters
Today, maps of our physical territory are ubiquitous in a way they were not even 15 years ago. Sure, in 2006, I could hit up Mapquest and print out directions to get from point A to point B. And consumer-grade GPS devices were beginning to enter the scene (I fondly remember my…
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In that piece, I noted:

So the once unknown and endless void becomes a resource, something to be used as a tool rather than marveled at.1

I mentioned how that notion, which comes out of the idea of Charles Taylor’s work on disench…

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