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THE TERROIR
"Terroir's direct translation is 'a sense of place', and what it means is the sum of the effects of a localized environment, inasmuch as they impact the qualities of a particular product. Yes, that can mean wine, but what if you applied these criteria to thinking about Area X my personal reader?"
- Jeff Vandermeer, Authority (& me)

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To Annotate

Fiction
⟢ Annihilation - Jeff Vandermeer
⟢ Story of your Life - Ted Chiang
⟢ The Castle of Crossed Destinies - Italo Calvino

Non-fiction
⟢ Ways of Being - James Bridle
⟢ Computer Lib / Dream Machines - Ted Nelson
⟢ Staying with the Trouble - Donna Haraway

Games
⟢ Chants of Senaar - Rundisc

Fiction

Annihilation - Jeff Vandermeer (2014)

⟢ Read: Summer 2023 | 05/10/2025
⟢ Location: I lent my physical copy to Max, but I also have a PDF

SI28: Area X is a Writing Machine

Think of it as a thorn, perhaps, a long, thick thorn so large it is buried deep in the side of the world. Injecting itself into the world. Emanating from this giant thorn is an endless, perhaps automatic, need to assimilate and to mimic. Assimilator and assimilated interact through the catalyst of a script of words, which powers the engine of transformation. Perhaps it is a creature living in perfect symbiosis with a host of other creatures. Perhaps it is “merely” a machine.