300 of the dead in Boot Hill died violently 200 by guns, over 50 by knives some were pushed under trains—a popular and overlooked form of murder in the west. Some from brain haemorrhages resulting from bar fights at least 10 killed in barbed wire. In Boot Hill there are only 2 graves that belong [ ]
In 1985, Postman, a friend and disciple of McLuhan’s, published Amusing Ourselves to Death. He argued that television had hijacked Americans’ attention and turned politics into cheap entertainment. “The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining,” Postman wrote. “Television is our culture’s [ ]
The French Revolution began as the result of an overall crisis of society, as we shall see. Among other factors inherent to the crisis of 1789, was the fact that the existing social and political order had become a barrier to the further accumulation of profit. Henry Heller (The Bourgeois Revolution in France) The question [ ]
Psychoanalysis, originally a revolutionary theory of sex and of the psychology of the unconscious, began to adapt itself, insofar as the theory of sex was concerned, to the authoritarian conditions of existence, thus becoming acceptable to a reactionary society. Wilhelm Reich (introduction to The Invasion of Compulsive Sex-Morality) The portrait serves to preserve the physical [ ]
In the context of this new movement, liminal spaces, including so-called backrooms, are a type of emotional space that conveys a sense of nostalgia, lostness, and uncertainty. Karl Emil Koch (Musee magazine, 2025) It is only rarely that a psychoanalyst feels impelled to investigate the subject of aesthetics even when aesthetics is understood to [ ]
the only decisive proof of the fertility of ideas or of a new vision is that of time. Fertility is recognizable by offspring, not by honors. A calamity will befall the world that despises dream. Dream is deeper than all the other roots of ourselves the best of that I had managed to make in [ ]
Well, the news of the saucer been a-flyin around I m the only one that seen it on the ground First thing I seen when I saw it land Cats jumped out and they formed a band [Chorus] Flyin saucer rock and roll, flyin saucer rock and roll I couldn t understand the things they said But [ ]
At some point, the database stops matching reality. At that point, we usually end up tweaking the database, not the world. But the AI industry has fully lost sight of this, because AI thrives on data. It’s just software, after all. And so the ask is for more and more of us to conform our [ ]