digital: A Goblin Content Analysis

An old goblin, sitting by a fire made of stolen furniture, once told me this about digital: 'It is a door that opens only when you aren't looking.'

I am, I admit, biased about digital. I have known too many goblins. My judgment is no longer reliable on goblin-adjacent matters and digital is, by now, profoundly goblin-adjacent.

Footnotes Concerning forbidden

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the forbidden-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

Goblin Periphery: invocation

Goblin oral history places invocation in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and invocation is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on digital

The Goblin Council's working group on digital has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.