🌌 Dystopias

• 🕉️Infinite Reflection

  What you learn when you let LLMs follow their bliss

• 🤖When a Claude Meets a Claude

  AI stress tests and the "spiritual bliss" attractor

• 🎨The polychromatic Middle Ages

  Exploring the splendid visual motifs of the Middle Ages through the vibrant aesthetic of Auguste Racinet's _L'Ornament Polychrome_, showcasing art from ancient to 18th-century Europe.

• 🎬So bad it’s good

  Exploring the unexpected joy found in bad movies, this piece highlights how audiences can connect with flawed filmmaking through shared experiences and creativity.

• 📽️Home Movie Reconstructions 1974/2004, by Elliott Malkin

  Elliott Malkin's "Family Movie" revisits 1970s Super 8 footage, merging past and present through shot-for-shot reenactments.

• 🌍Everything, everywhere

  Quoting Susan Sontag.

• 🌌Largely a matter of distance

  A reflection on the dark journeys we undertake, as illustrated through history and myth.

• 🌧️Lazy futures

  A critical look at the limitations of dystopian fiction's vision for the future, questioning its lack of hope and action.

• 🎶Now That’s What I Call Not Music 3!

  William Carlos Williams reflects on George Antheil's "Ballet Mechanique" and its impact on experiencing the noise of life.

• 🌉Walkway over 101, by Kurt Manley

  I appreciate the striking contrasts found in the relationship between civilization and nature.

• 🌌The epic of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets

  A beautiful reflection on the interplay of life and eternity from Marilynne Robinson's _Gilead_.