Man and Machine

This chapter is composed as a reflection that unfolds its dimensions revealed in the process of reading. Layers of thought and memory, of present, past and future, unfold as life experience, as a texture, not in a linear and machine-like fashion. The central focus is a random happening on the streets of Seattle that disrupted the flow of everyday life, the familiar, and opened multiple dimensions of thought and imagination, leading from immediate impacts and impressions to a reflection on the nature of the human, the vicissitudes of capitalism and the sad history of chattel slavery and its haunting aura. The epilogue is a brief reflection on the appearance of the coronavirus.