+We began the year's meeting by saying: We're going to will this into existence. I'm surprised by the volume of messages and emails we receive from people about Metropol. We started from a newsletter, which is still going, every Monday! We are small but nimble. We are young but naïve. We are hungry but choosy. We are doing a lot and nothing at all. What would make Metropol truly interesting is non-existence as a form of being alive. This would be occupying a nether region, like a ghost in a cupboard. It’s there but not there or it’s felt and can’t be seen. I’m obsessed with image, and obsessed with killing image. One thing we want to do more of is talk to people. Not just the people already convinced by our mission. First, the people who fundamentally disagree with us. I am, by nature, an accelerationist. Not in any ideological sense, but in the most literal one: I do not know what the future holds, and I do not want to wait a single moment before going there. I believe the future can only arrive through showing up in debate and laughter, and starting conversations that don't yet have conclusions. The only way we’re going to find out what Metropol is, is by moving headfirst into what we think it is. We ended the Q2 meeting with someone saying, let’s go out.+