bri.co.lage noun /bree-koh-lahzh/
(in art or literature) construction or creation from various materials on hand.
also: something constructed this way, such as life.
bri.co.leur noun /bree-koh-ler/
a person who engages in bricolage
also: a fancy french word for tinkerer
"The fragment is not a failure of completion. It is, for those willing to look, the most truthful unit of thought."
— W.G. Sebald*
— W.G. Sebald*
"Ahmed has done something the internet largely forgot was possible: made a webpage feel like a mind at work."
— The New Yorker*
— The New Yorker*
"A one-man refusal. While the web collapses into platforms, Ahmed builds his own thing, by hand, on his own terms. Read it like you'd read a notebook left open on a table."
— n+1*
— n+1*
* blurbs intended solely for illustrative purposes
Experiments in Bricolage
Nawaaz Ahmed
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