One Way Street

09.02.2026 written – entered into blog on 09.20.2026

"A warmth that ebbs in all things" 

Interesting – today, we don’t even have freedom of domicile, whereas in the Middle Ages, people did have the freedom to domicile

Human movement is becoming constrained by the world’s boundless resistance

The city, even as it is thought of being bounded, is simultaneously encroached upon by the countryside – a dialectic between the city and the encroaching countryside. 

The city dweller, because of the dim street’s insecurities, must assimilate with the “abortion of urban architectonics"? 

"Luxury goods mark the individual as either starveling or racketeer – they parade such brazen solidity that all the mind’s shafts break harmlessly along the surface"

"Picking the unripened fruit from the tree in order to sell it profitably."

"Pitilessly dragged out into the street by advertisements and subjected to the brutal heteronomies of economic chaos"

Reflects what is so peculiar about advertisement – fundamentally, images that give us a solid reason to clip our fingernails and push ourselves to be Efficient, where social media consumerist discourses rest on an idea of whether or not the purchase can be “justified”, the nails tapping along the packaging in a form of arpeggio, a nose scrunch meant to intone the emotion felt to the consumer through the imagined ownership of the product – it was hard for me to “justify” the purchase. 

"Newspapers read exclusively in the vertical rather than horizontal plane – a film that forces printed word into the directorial perpendicular." 

"Locust swarms of print that eclipse the sun"

"Advance into department stores in marching order, no one sees further than the back in front of him."

"I hope we try our best to let no thought pass incognito" – spirit of this blog

"Keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep records of the aliens" – LOL