In art, the sublime is a feedback loop, evolving with whatever’s next to threaten us | Aeon Videos “The history, development and force of the sublime in Western art shows how what we fear and wonder at changes over time.” #sublime aeon.co/videos/in-art-…

The concerns of daily life prompted #earlymodern people to seek reassurance in fate, stars, and #astrologers. ⌛𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆’𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟳 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 buff.ly/4h5rgbm

The Radical #Politics of #OscarWilde … tribunemag.co.uk/2024/10/the-ra…

Introduce kids to poetry at a young age age; and don’t think that they’ve outgrown rhyme once they’ve outgrown pictures books.

this was sooo interesting because it really is weird how often fantasy books are just like. taking scot/irish/welsh culture and acting like it’s a crazy made up idea

The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

Not just the highly educated. Welsh miners formed study groups to read Austen and Dickens. Scottish shepherds built lending libraries. Watchmakers & cabinetmakers taught themselves Greek and Latin. The loss of working-class autodidact culture is one of history's great tragedies.

kind of proves Bazin's point--the moment at which attempts to replicate "reality" purely through verisimilitude, forgetting WHAT is being replicated, just that it looks "real," is the moment we forget what art is supposed to do

What if the real conclusion was the paragraphs I wrote along the way

In response to the linked article. 1: The rampant use of ChatGPT is due in part to a society-wide failure to value education for its own sake. By treating a pure means to an end - wealth - as a final end, we have ethically crippled a generation. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

A Walk at Dusk (c 1830-35) by Caspar David Friedrich. A rather contemplative painting for the anniversary of his death.

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

We created AI in our image, so I really don’t know what people were expecting would happen.

Tech bros try not to butcher philosophy challenge

ANNE RICE’S THE VAMPIRE LESTAT

Comic-Con International I want answers & follow up for the people your staff mistreated and vilified

there’s obviously a nostalgic “humanist” reading of people falling in love with AI bots (ie. everyone is so desperate for any connection now, etc) but the antihumanist one feels correct: humans have always fallen in love with flat/partial/projective/“machinic” qualities in others

Opened up my dissertation for the first time in a month, wrote one sentence, and fell asleep for an hour

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals