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the hows and whys of invisibility - ForsterWoods - 08-29-2021
Invisibility looms large in the kingdom of childhood-in pretend play and imaginary friends, in fairy tales and comic books and other fictions for kids-but it seldom receives sustained adult scrutiny. And yet, once you get past the cloaks and the spells, invisibility is a consummately grownup matter. As a condition, a metaphor, a fantasy, and a technology, it helps us think about the composition of nature, the structure of society, and the deep weirdness of our human situation-about what it is like to be partly visible entities in a largely inscrutable universe. As such, the story of invisibility is not really about how to vanish at all. Curiously enough, it is a story about how we see ourselves.
http://slowshimogo.com/2015/04/20/sight-unseen-the-hows-and-whys-of-invisibility/