“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. Enjoy!

Some highlights from this edition:

• About Agentworld – A Preemptive Anthropology of Open-World Centaur Societies – by Antikythera.
• About Architectures of Possibility – a long and great essay by Ana Brzezinska on what immersive design can learn from the Great Reform, architectural utopias, and the lost optimism of the 20th century.
• About The New Aesthetics Grant created by Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen to fund artists, architects, and designers who are consciously working to define New Aesthetics.

If you prefer the full firehose, check out the Substack link: https://petervan.substack.com/p/petervan-delicacies-186