- this term has a really weird and confusing history, see for example:
- > Analog, as conventionally understood, conflates multiple historically situated practices to erect a dubious universal: “analog” as continuous. Prewar analogs, however, give the game away: analogs employ analogy. If we wish to understand analogs as a category, then let us do so sensitive to their historical and cognitive dimensions. [...] Perhaps analog’s conventional (ahistorical) meaning is best understood symbolically, as a signifier of loss, an aching nostalgia for the soul-satisfying vividness of the concrete. — 📖 Building SimCity — How to Put the World in a Machine
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