vogue.theory

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Confronted with the truth of life's ephemerality, and the sad impermanence of everything. #percivaleverett #japanesegarden (at Kubota Garden) https://www.instagram.com/p/CE0Wx7WjvYg/?igshid=t3vtjaioipm7

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Everything real in the moment, but fleetingly so. Landscapes and emotions in a constant state of flux, with a twisted logic to it all, the way a dream makes sense only when you're inside it. #recursion #blakecrouch (at Salt Lake City, Utah) https://www.instagram.com/p/CErlVzFDGiF/?igshid=gciah8fq6l26

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I imagined her searching out constellations in an unfamiliar sky, like trying to read the braille of foreign tongues. #thegoneworld #tomsweterlitsch #seattle #skylinesofinstagram (at Kerry Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEyL4phDo9h/?igshid=a9mt0domrk3w

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KARMA! (at Kerry Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEyKkPsjNoW/?igshid=1jvb43pd3jq8u

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There's a ragged shoreline a hundred yards away, and a mist hovers over the blue-gray water, obscuring the spruce trees in the distance, which stands along the shore like a line of haunted calligraphy. #recursion #blakecrouch #waterfallsofinstagram #wanderlust (at Snoqualmie Falls) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEyKPgdj2kw/?igshid=1xpz1cw7sea8w

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Motivated by a desire for knowledge, a yearning to see what can arise from a universe's exhalation. Because even if a universe's life span is calculable, the variety of life generated within it is not. The buildings we have erected, the art and music we have composed, the very lives we've led: none of them could have been predicted, because none of them was inevitable. #tedchiang #exhalation (at Powell Gardens) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAn-GtYjodS/?igshid=cecrqf4wddh9

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And the sun filtered down through the waters like an embarrassment of sapphires. . #childrenofruin #adriantchaikovsky #explore @igkansascity @unionstationkc #reflectingmotionkc (at Kansas City Union Station) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByygaBvAQsQ/?igshid=13bkjkt70jpym

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He showed them the poles, too- there was no land, no ice, but instead a weird sargassum of tendrils and coils and flowers. A bizarre tessellating pattern when seen from above. The tangle seemed living but inanimate, and yet there was a constant sense of motion from beneath. . #childrenofruin #adriantchaikovsky #reflectingmotionkc #exlpore @igkansascity @sciencecitykc @unionstationkc (at Science City at Union Station) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByyiyvKANSJ/?igshid=9c0r0yr4g3hb

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And in between, I’ve been in a kind of bardo state, flying around in a gray roar, spattered windows to laddered sunlight, descending to rainclouds and rain and escalators down and down to a tumble of faces in baggage claim, eerie kind of afterlife , the space between earth and not, highly polished floors and glass-roof cathedral echoes and the whole anonymous concourse glow, a mass identity I don’t want to be a part of and indeed am not a part of. #thegoldfinch #donnatartt (at The Art Institute of Chicago) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6wiievArha/?igshid=1vc3coxgcgnso

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Maybe someday breakthroughs in neurobiology will enable us to explain communism and the crusades in strictly biochemical terms. Yet we are very far from that point. During the twenty-first century the border between history and biology is likely to blur not because we will discover biological explanations for historical events, but rather because ideological fictions will rewrite DNA strands; political and economic interests will redesign the climate; and the geography of mountains and rivers will give way to cyberspace. As human fictions are translated into genetic and electronic codes, the intersubjective reality will swallow up the objective reality and biology will merge with history. In the twenty-first century fiction might thereby become the most potent force on earth, surpassing even wayward asteroids and natural selection. Hence if we want to understand our future, cracking genomes and crunching numbers is hardly enough. We must also decipher the fictions that give meaning to the world. #yuvalnoahharari #homodeus #shelterinplace https://www.instagram.com/p/B_vq_u8j9fl/?igshid=zp5fk0j2owws

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If humanity is the central fact of the universe, if our species is the omphalos, then a close examination of the celestial sphere should confirm that privileged status. Our solar system should be the fixed point against which all else is moving; our Sun should be at absolute rest. If the evidence doesn’t support that premise, then we must ask where our commitment truly lies. #tedchiang #exhalation #scatterkindness (at Rock Island Trail Lee's Summit) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_dgKe7jvvVMTnXsuJ-ussv5y9QtM-jqLc0Jjo0/?igshid=1e1sqalf4cp48

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Probably you’ll find life as we know it knitted into nooks of the chattering cosmos, probably, probably, you have no patience for the movies there in your eventual arrondissement where you have more credible holography, more inspiring actual events, your ghazals composed of crow racket, retrorockets, glaciers breaking, your discotheques wailing probably, probably, too late a sentient taxi airlifts you home over a refurbished riverbank, above the rebuilt cathedral, erupting into that hereafter like a hydrant on fire, a born siren chasing us out of your airspace, probably, an emissary arrived to instruct us, shriek us awake. #jaswinderbolina (at Spinning Dragons) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5T9ID9gtS_/?igshid=15wplx27n6d5r

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We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe. If we make landfall on another solar system, we become immortal. -#raybradbury (at Flatirons Vista Loop) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2sx6kOAU_r/?igshid=1r6cjdti14i32

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Next to them was the towering mountain, honeycombed by rooms and chambers, where it was centered, all of life in the star system. A mountain where long ago light used to shine in the morning. Now the sky was permanently dark beneath the heavy clouds, an everlasting night split only by the incessant flash of lightning bolts, revealing the filthy rain and sleet that fell across the protective force fields. A black sky also seen from the asteroids orbiting far above, a sky that shielded the whole planet, its turbulence illuminated to insipid gray by sunlight and blazing strands of fusion flame. Life still thrived beneath the veil, woven inseparably to groupings of itself as it seethed and survived everywhere, on small cold planets, moons encircling gas giants, and far asteroid settlements. A life that now extended to other stars and their planets. #pandorasstar #peterfhamilton (at Boulder Falls Trail) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2rzoDfgtiQ/?igshid=13d0nx4mzxv25

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Now a crystalline crust, bright white and shimmering like a coat of minerals or like diamond barnacles, growing in jagged torrents of opalescence and radiating away like brilliant white sunbursts. I reached toward the blue and pulled myself through a portal. I floated, following the passageway outlined in the light of crystal brilliance, the spectral diamond shapes and the radiant lines that stretched away forever. #thegoneworld #tomsweterlitsch #themostkansasphotoever #windmills #roadtrip #colorado (at I-70) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Zxjf3g1c_/?igshid=1cz9deze0hewb

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Its surface was an ocean with crystal shapes that swam like leviathans, crystals like latticework, mammoth polyhedrons that bobbed and dived in the ink. #TheGoneWorld #tomsweterlitsch (at Museum at Prairiefire) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2IcWNEA3EK/?igshid=10n50ql382ukk

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Works like that explored realms of possibility, not what was the past and could not be undone, but an improbable future from which humanity was obliged to try to learn. #famousmenwhoneverlived #kchess #thepyronauts . Favorite place during summer nights, exploring #Jupiter and its four #Galilean, and M57, the #RingNebula at the Warkoczewski Observatory. #astronomy #lookup @igkansascity (at Royall Hall - UMKC) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0edaahgU5K/?igshid=uu0s0vp1fdmp