“Much within me is indeed worm, as I lie facedown, fused to my smartphone, in my blanket cocoon of proto-singularity.”
– Writer
Adina Glickstein, ringing in 2023 with a meditation on Nietzsche, transhumanism, and ‘goblin mode.’ The latter, Oxford’s
word of the year 2022, is defined as ‘unapologetic self-indulgence’—not unlike the singularity, that Glickstein describes as “existential goblin mode, disembodied and self-indulgent to the max.”
