"Deep Utopia" by Nick Bostrom (2024)

It is refreshing to read a book written if not by a human, then at least by an entity that is not the same condescending ghost-writer who appears to be authoring a bulk of big- and small-name popular science books that mix uncredited academic ideas with the irrelevant personal anecdote. Indirectly, the book argues for not caring very much about "us" in the faraway utopian future, for these won't be us anymore. The spotlight thus pivots to the immediate present: a snapshot of a mortal college don, clever and eloquent, caught anxious at the crossroads of history. The moment is fleeting, fragile, and beautiful. And it is gone.

Peter Lindbergh: On Fashion Photography (2020)

Portrait photography bares the soul. The soul is the sitter's or the photographer's. Some souls look most bare when the body is nude. Some bodies look more naked when dressed. Fashion photography relies on clothes to enhance nakedness.