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txt_a memory that never belonged to you

You wake in a hotel room that is not the hotel room you fell asleep in the furniture is similar but not identical the curtains are heavier the light more artificial the bed too narrow and you wonder if the hotel has rearranged itself during the night to keep you confused or if you have … txt_a memory that never belonged to you

memoryscape_2025

Memoryscape, a speculative short story by THE-ICONOMIST, investigates the collapse between memory, technology, and subjectivity. A narrator navigates feeds, notifications, algorithms, and system failures in search of himself, finding only residues: echoes, noises, and fragments of a life mediated by devices. Between archived dreams, captcha identities, and emotions translated into data, the book constructs a … memoryscape_2025

gaston-bachelard_imagination

“We always think of the imagination as the faculty that forms images. On the contrary, it deforms what we perceive; it is, above all, the faculty that frees us from immediate images and changes them. … Imagination is essentially open and elusive. We could say that a stable and completely realized image clips the wings … gaston-bachelard_imagination

ti_zine_fragility

F IS FOR FRAGILITY (OF DIGITAL IMAGES). When data is corrupted, the image also takes on a new life. They have lost their original functions, their sharpness, and often any possibility of literal reading. What remains are fragments, noises, spectra. In December 2024, one of our hard drives containing thousands of reference images and project … ti_zine_fragility

prose_1_a dress grew itself

28 July 2025, 11:20 AM [PROSE] A DRESS GREW ITSELF894 WORDS, READING TIME: 4m58s [read]

radical-tenderness

[INPUT] I TOOK A PHOTO AND I FORGOT TO FEEL.pdf2025, research for upcoming project, 35p., 1080×1920 each [view]

theiconomist