glyph theory

In that photograph he was as skinny as Gandhi. For three decades he entranced us with feelings of power, ease and transparency. Especially transparency. It’s weird to think that the mini-storage industry, for people who have too many things and cannot part with them, the era of cheap stuff from China, and Apple Computer’s ascendancy were all concurrent, because one of Jobs’ biggest gifts to us is the ability to remove the feeling of clutter. The transparency and the neatness that Apple promises and delivers feels tinged with irony now that Steve Jobs seems to be vanishing before our eyes. I walked up those stairs thinking of Kafka’s story, “The Hunger Artist.” When the emaciated Hunger Artist finally dies they replace him with a panther. Endings always change everything that leads up to them.