2023/01/04

Adina Glickstein Declares Singularity “Existential Goblin Mode”

“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.”
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