Chinese Atoms
Galaxies can collide with a turtle mom.
Everything is not a tool of divination.
Antimatter and metagalaxy.
Old birds and old atoms.
The less we think, the happier
Mom’s turtles seem to become.
Two turtles seem unconscious.
Three turtles can collide in cities.
por Tao Lin
Y ahora, algo completamente diferente.
Se cumplieron 100 años de la muerte de Lenin. David Josef Volodzko da un recorrido por la vida sembrada de muerte de Vladimir en el substack de Konstantin Kisin.
“By contrast, Lenin’s father was far from poor. He was the director of primary schools for the Simbirsk district, later for the entire province, and was eventually named an aristocrat. Lenin grew up in comfort and was not steered down a ruinous path by physical or psychological torture. He was not run over by a horse-drawn carriage as a child, like Stalin, or beaten for reading books, like Mao. He was not made into a monster, and whatever evil lay in his heart, was apparently there from birth.”
La historia de un símbolo supremacista: Francis Baron Von Trenck y el origen del totenkopf.
“ At HistoryNet, the Totenkopf is acknowledged as an older symbol than Hitler, one that Germans of the 20th Century inherited from the Prussian Hussars. Yet the writer still assigns the symbol to the “bad guys” of history with a too-sweeping dismissal, really.”
Una crónica sobre un taller de microagresiones en Estados Unidos.
“The event began with an introduction to the term, which is probably familiar enough to most by now: “the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership. (How one unintentionally targets someone sounds like an oxymoron.) Microaggressions rest on several presumptions, including the inescapability of implicit bias, which, by the way, is a disputed term involving measures that arguably possess low reliability and lack predictive validity.”
Los orcos eran reales: están basados en nuestra experiencia como Homo Sapiens, luchando a muerte contra los Neandertales.
“…mainstream academics have finally begun to accept that human beings drove the Neanderthals to extinction through war.”
Zizek tiene substack.
“The impasses of today’s consumerism provide a clear case of the Lacanian distinction between plaisir and jouissance: on the one hand we have the consumerist calculating his plaisirs, well-protected from all kinds of harassments and other health threats; on the other hand we have the drug addict (or smoker or…) bent on self-destruction.”
El gran escritor musical Ray Padgett está revisando, como decirlo, ¿en tiempo real?, la gira del 74 de Bob Dylan con The Band, que empezó desde principios de enero, la legendaria gira que nos dio ese gran par de discos en vivo: Before the Flood. Altamente recomendado.
Rob Horning tiene un insight brillante: liga el estructuralismo francés con los trabajos de la Inteligencia Artificial.
“And some structuralists, like some “AI” advocates today, were eager to marginalize human consciousness as a unique constitutive force — thus you find Claude Lévi-Strauss declaring in La Pensée sauvage that “the final goal of the human sciences is not to constitute man but to dissolve him.” This seems in keeping with AI’s aim of predicting the future on the basis of past data — once you sufficiently understand the physico-chemical conditions of the world, you should be able to program it (and all the living beings it comprises) like a computer.”
La gran editorial Simon & Schuster fue vendida a la firma de capital privado KKK, perdón, KKR.
Una reflexión sobre los buques con contenedores que surcan los barcos y nos ayudan a tener kiwis de Australia, tu ropa barata directa de China y que ahora han sido atacados por los rebeldes Houthies en el Mar Rojo.
“This shipping container feels symbolic, though I’m not exactly sure why. It could represent capitalism’s conquest of the globe, eradicating every frontier until even the oceans offer no escape from the rule of consumer goods. But we could equally read it the other way around. The doomed man’s boat stands for us, the coddled citizens of the modern world; afloat on a sea of complacency, we take for granted the global networks that underpin our way of life – then something breaks down, and our hidden dependencies burst into view.”
Hasta la próxima.