On On Browsing by Jason Guriel
Leaning on his memory of physical locations, Guriel praises curation, lauds
serendipity, and pays tribute to the affordances that assist one in slowing
down. By the end of the short book that sets browsing the physical against
scrolling screens, Guriel himself deconstructs his dichotomy and imagines
succeeding generations of late adopters immune to the enchantments of speedy
consumption. He is quite eloquent on the need to create one’s archive as a hedge
against the disappearance of artefacts accessed by streaming alone. In the end,
he intimates that old practices of caring for the physical are transferable to
the purely digital.
And so for day 3177
23.08.2015