17 Apr 2007 2059H

Smash Big-D Design!

Sometimes I feel like big-D design, design of the fetish variety, design writ large, worshipped as a goddess, should be destroyed. (This blog is actually small d design, contrary to what the title says.)

Was it not said, “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him?”

Originally this post was entitled, “Death to Creativity! Death to Creatives!” but it’s not that exactly, and I wish they would say it for themselves. Because the more we try and manage something, I think, the further we get away from the is-ness of something, in and of itself, the ding an sich, even. The act of knowing and describing freezes something whose vitality depends on its constant motion.

But if we own nothing, then nothing can be taken from us. So what is it that we own? We own the tools. The raw materials are things everyone can bring. The output is something other than the tools. The tools are our own.

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