that Adorno's quote about cinema leaving him 'stupider and worse' gets bandied about as evidence of him being a laughable curmudgeon has always struck me as cruel and unfair, because its context was life in LA under the shadow of the holocaust; now some of his most urgent writing
An awesome essay on this century's greatest writer of philosophical horror. Also reminds me why I'll take a gram of Bakker or a metric tonne of Lacan.
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the incredibly slapdash way these were rushed out and how cynical the production was after del toro left was really the watershed moment for the era we're in now, even more than the MCU. the bloated lifeless sheen that every big movie has today is downstream from these.
the last living client of frank lloyd wright, roland reisley, is 101 and has lived in his flw house for 73 years. this quote from him about it made me cry
this really just shows that gaza is the graveyard of myths such as “international law” and “international court of justice” and whatever the fuck else. no one here is protected. not the children, the women, the animals, the doctors, the journalists. israel is above the law.
Throughout this entire statement you would never know that Israel killed Anas al-Sharif and that the IDF took credit for the assassination immediately.
That Mayor Pete clip should really make your stomach churn if you’re interested in a Democrat winning the presidency in the future.
They’re gonna choose Israel over winning again if you let them! Another campaign willing to sac all of us on the alter of an A+ AIPAC scorecard.
Let me be so crystal fucking clear to all Democrats at all levels. Catering to casual transphobia makes you my opposition. I’m not bartering my son’s life or rights so you can “welcome everyone under the tent”.
You have lost your rabid ass mind if you think otherwise.
Every single day dozens of lights like these go out for absolutely no good reason—for the worst reasons!—and life just goes on in the rest of the world like this is perfectly normal. Well I will never move on from this, and I won’t let the people who supported it move on, either.