The Mechanical Imagination
In the output of the AI generated image, the technique is there but the techne is not.
The Banality of Psychedelics
by
Stephen Akey
Posted on December 21, 2022
in THR Web Features
Image: Detail of The Doors concert poster. Bonnie MacLean. c. 1968.
The central truths revealed to me by psilocybin were all the things my mother tried to teach me.
My Name Is Jim
I have been drinking alcohol since I was 15.
A Funeral for Bruno Latour
What makes this so difficult is that time has a way of eroding the power of words.
Autocomplete
Posted on November 23, 2022
in THR Web Features
Image: Jimmy Chan. Via Pexels.
We all must adapt to a new textual culture made by GPT-3.
Hunting the White Goddess
Posted on November 18, 2022
in THR Web Features
Image: Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing, ca. 1786. William Blake.
It seems that neo-paganism is attractive in part because it offers an identity to those who have rejected postmodern, deracinated versions of Christianity.
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