How the idea of a book gave rise to a space for memory, conversation and recirculation

I’ve long had one thought: the best way to really talk to a person isn’t to spend years slowly getting closer, but to let them enter your optics right away.

At one time I thought this called for a book. Having read it, a person would enter the conversation not through the outer layer but through a more precise understanding. But I never wrote the book.

Instead, another form gradually emerged.

I have a main channel that holds the main body of my material in the context of the project and my philosophy. But the channel doesn’t explain itself directly: much in it stays without comment and requires optics of its own. Next to it there was always another layer of material: videos, fragments, observations that didn’t fit the frame of the main channel, though they mattered to me no less.

That’s partly why the “Bessmyslennost i skorotechnost” chat appeared together with the ann bot: not only as a separate space for this material, but also as a way of revealing the philosophy indirectly, the philosophy this material arises from.

Over time this chat became a media library and an environment where content doesn’t vanish after publication but returns, recirculates and goes on living.

Social networks are built so that almost anything quickly sinks in the stream. This principle has always seemed too poor to me. Some things don’t open up right away. Sometimes they need not a day or a month but years.

So the ann bot appeared inside this space. Not as decoration and not as a feature for the sake of a feature. Its job is different: in conversation, in passing, not head-on, to show the philosophy that lies beneath what I do. To explain not individual posts but the angle of view they arise from.

For me “Bessmyslennost i skorotechnost” isn’t just a chat and not just an archive. It’s an attempt to create an environment where things don’t dissolve in the stream right after they appear, but keep the right to be seen and understood later.