Essay · History
Ledgers of empire
Empires kept meticulous accounts. Read against the grain, they reveal the hidden cost.
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Philosophy · Society · Science · History
Thomas Bjorn
Deep time, repair work, and the long cost of empire.
Thomas writes about maintenance — of buildings, of institutions, of the planet — and about the durations the human mind instinctively refuses. He keeps a geologist's calendar and a very short temper for the word 'unprecedented'.
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- Writing since 2018
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Essay · Science
Deep time, shallow lives
Geology asks us to imagine durations the human mind instinctively resists.
1 min read
Essay · Society
The work of repair
Maintenance, not invention, is what actually holds a shared world together.
1 min read
Essay · Philosophy
On being wrong well
To err is human; to err gracefully is a discipline worth a lifetime of practice.
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Maintenance, not invention, is what holds a shared world together.
