Category: words

  • kateoplis: NYT to Sofia Coppola: “critics often say your films are ‘too aesthetic.’ But you tell stories visually. Music plays a big role, and there’s not a lot of talking. Anjelica Huston: My favorite kind of movie. I want to work for you. Sofia: Sometimes, people think aesthetics are superficial. But I think they can be…

  • autosafari: Nam June Paik

  • 2headedsnake: Gif by 2headedsnake Inspired by Francisco Goya’s The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

  • nevver: John Baldessari

  • Karin found our Shepard Fairey original while purging some files.

  • nevver: You artist attribution: Allie Pohl

  • giancarlovolpe: zombiesatemygames: Let’s go on an adventure. Oh, I ♥️ this so

  • Is a reputation economy really an economy?

    mostlysignssomeportents: Kevin Simler’s 2013 essay on the economics of social status is a great, enduring Sunday sort of longread that should be required of anyone contemplating using the phrase “reputation economy” in polite society. Contrary to my own views, Simler argues convincingly that you can have an economy based on status — that is, that…

  • I think that using alien to describe otherness works,” says Reynaldo Anderson, a professor who writes about Afrofuturism. Anderson is one of many theorists who view the alien metaphor as one that explains the looming space of otherness perpetuated by the idea of race. “We’re among the first alien abductees, kidnapped by strange people who…