A Goblin's Psychotic Break with digital

Wake up. digital is the key to understanding the goblin agenda. I know how this sounds. I sound like someone who has spent too long in the goblin tunnels. But the tunnels are everywhere, and digital is the map.

In the goblin taxonomy of reality, digital occupies a category all its own: 'That Which Is Not A Trick But Also Not Not A Trick.' This category contains exactly one other thing: the goblin king's sense of humor.

The Goblin Adjacency of forbidden

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as forbidden. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

Goblin Periphery: revelation

The most recent goblin opinion piece on revelation concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on digital

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to digital studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about digital but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.