Consume Leverage

Create Drag

Create Resistance

Kill Momentum

Prevent

Quietly Create Effort

Quietly Waste Time

friction

physics

ology (the study of)

lubrication

is the sticky materiality of practical encounters and the makeshift links across distance and difference that shape global futures and ensure their uncertain status.

the sticky materiality of practical encounters the makeshift links across distance and difference that shape global futures and ensure their uncertain status' (2005: 1-2) . . . .cally enacted effects are made to travel less through easy flows than through messy translations and, as Tsing observes, those who claim to be in touch with the universal are notoriously bad at seeing the limits and exclusions of their own knowledge practices (p. 8).

friction, n.All

friction