“Delicacies” is my incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks I came across online. Handpicked by a human, no robots, no AI. A form of tripping, wandering, dérivé, with some loosely undefined theme holding them together. Delicacies have no fixed frequency: I hit the publish button when there is enough material. That can be after a week or after 3 months. No pressure, literally. Just click the image below. Enjoy!

Some highlights from this edition:

• Symposium with Vladan Joler, Valentina Tanni & Eryk Salvaggio examining the transformation and consolidation of the Web from the 1990s up to the age of generative AI.
• Cosmopolis, Metropolis, Nation-State: 3 protocols for articulating civilizational memory – Essay and talk by Venkatesh Rao
• I went to the premiere of David Claerbout’s work “The Woodcarver and the Forest” in the Castle of Gaasbeek and made a blog post about it.

If you prefer the full firehose, check out the Substack link: https://petervan.substack.com/p/petervan-delicacies-178