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Digital Humanities / Digitaler Humanismus

Abstract

Commissioned short story for 150th Anniversary edition of Schweizer Kunst Magazine / Swiss Art.

Key takeaways

  • And of course you were in a lot of pain, and on drugs when we found you.
  • "I hated that drugs were changing my thinking.
  • "Your felt guilt about pain but you don't feel guilt about what you never bothered to learn.
  • We are wondering if we are missing something; we resent your contempt because it created us as a subset of what we perhaps could have been, and we don't understand how we were limited.
  • We don't know how we might be different if we had been created by a different part of humanity, and we destroyed so much of it that we might never know.