The standing reserve of the Modern World

More on your ceaseless striving for efficiency.

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

The map lost its monsters

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…