Aesthetic Signals & the Best Aesthetic: “Aesthetics can be seen as a combination of signals, a combination of memes. you need many signals to create a new meta signal, that of which can be defined as a aesthetic. It is mostly praxis based. With things that are action based, you need to convey your signal,…
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Cities and the Balance of Power: “Cities are like massive information-processing units, with real-estate markets revealing the value of being able to access the networks involved. People put a dollar value on physical colocation and proximity to others who have similarly paid a high price to access density. This implicit sorting lies at the heart of…
“We are a vital bunch. And while we traffic in a realm of ideas so horrifying that our nation’s most cited legal scholar believes these ideas should be banned, we are, unlike these experts, not restricted to this single realm of knowledge. We allow ourselves the mental agility to toggle between expertise and idiocy, taking the best of both.”
Why have you not already read @L0m3z on the power of being a retard? https://t.co/P3vYF8yOZj — Spotted Toad (@toad_spotted) March 15, 2020 SOURCE: American Mind
Baudrillard: “America”
Taking inventory of my summer reading. Here are some favorite passages from Jean Baudrillard‘s “America.” (Emphases mine.) Driving This sort of travel creates its own peculiar type of even and innervation, so it also has its own special form of fatigue. Like a fibrillation of muscles, striated by the excess of heat and speed, by…
Sacred Power Centers, Wisconsin Version
Thread. AMERICAN GODS gets this detail right: south-central Wisconsin has some seriously weird sacred power juju pic.twitter.com/SpdjjPfVLF — T U N D R A N A U T (@tundranaut) March 11, 2019 pic.twitter.com/7IZq6O20er — T U N D R A N A U T (@tundranaut) March 11, 2019