Will Essilfie

all about the mind-expanding: activism, music, education, the arts, society & global politics.

[Will Essilfie @SonicWill]

You should definitely check out this piece I wrote with @ClareSaxon that pulls apart the barriers standing in the way of taking action on climate change ✨

[Clare Saxon Ghauri claresaxon.bsky.social @ClareSaxon]

Here are 4 words you don’t care about: THE WORLD IS ENDING

Because these are the 2 words why it’s ending, which you definitely don’t give a damn about: CLIMATE CHANGE

👇Me & @SonicWill on why U don’t give a f#*k about #ClimateChange, in 6 gnarly GIFs🤟

https://t.co/JLpwEaGfhH

[Will Essilfie @SonicWill]

@01TWST @deena0deena It was fun immersing myself in Deena Abdelwahed's music and ideas, lots of rich interesting music, ideas and material💡, check it out.

[Will Essilfie @SonicWill]

From 2011, a long ('objective' and critical) article about music criticism in relation to the music site Pitchfork.

https://t.co/oY0zUD3YWm

[Will Essilfie @SonicWill]

An eclectic selection of albums chosen by @tejucole and accompanied by his captivating prose making this edition of Baker's Dozen on the @theQuietus
one of the most delightful and engaging, I kid you not 🥰.

https://t.co/UUvBXvJ0q9

[Will Essilfie @SonicWill]

Toni Morrison: I know the world is bruised & bleeding, & though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge—even wisdom. Like art.

https://t.co/sktCMWqgH9

[Will Essilfie @SonicWill]

Extolling the virtues of the Spike Jonze film Her: "...even many well-received AI-related movies in the last decade — Ex Machina, Blade Runner 2049, After Yang, and, who knew, M3GAN��— may be decent on their own, but offer few insights about AI itself".  

https://t.co/cQqjtfACeG

[Will Essilfie @SonicWill]

What features did a robot have the last time you saw them in a film? 🤔 Well, this piece unpicks the gender differences in the depictions of AI in the world of cinema; turns out there's a lot to rethink 🤖🦾🦿🤖.

https://t.co/8ZUfJitxLS

[Will Essilfie @SonicWill]

Loving the 'Artist a Day' archive of posts by @CultureShockArt , some pretty cool stuff ✌

https://t.co/nm3rSY20Ih

[Will Essilfie @SonicWill]

Lots of details relating to the film Past Lives revealed in this interview with the director Celine Song 📽🎬

https://t.co/djIJNdICRM

[Will Essilfie @SonicWill]

Wonderful to hear there's potentially another China Mieville book on the way soon 🌟, in addition to the Keanu Reeves' collaborative novel The Book of Elsewhere 📚

https://t.co/PlZFue2RQO

[Will Essilfie @SonicWill]

Exactly as the title says, worth highlighting that the piece contains some really interesting nuanced accounts from people of mixed racial heritage about their experiences of navigating a world that 'others' their sometimes complex identities.

https://t.co/l3oWiN4bHU

[Will Essilfie @SonicWill]

Berwyn - 'Dear Immigration'

https://t.co/lb5sasKx6B

[Will Essilfie @SonicWill]

@jack_hardwicke I subsequently emailed you about this as well, hope someone will get back to me soon about my way overdue order... 🤞

[Will Essilfie @SonicWill]

@MetronRecords I would be grateful if you could get back to me about my Bandcamp order, can provide further info if you DM me.

[Will Essilfie @SonicWill]

Is this the issue??? 🤔
"...neuroscience researchers have found that people experience greater vicarious empathic responses for people of their own ethnicity compared to other-ethnicity members".

Turn Empathy Into Compassion Without the Empathic Distress

https://t.co/oxkgNMclcl

[Will Essilfie @SonicWill]

Here's the first of a series of tweets with links to things I have encountered today that have been thought-provoking in relation to empathy, and the nature of modern ways of organizing society.

"Vince Staples: 'My Job Is To Keep My Sanity'"

https://t.co/vwB35QUdmo

[Will Essilfie @SonicWill]

Israel’s foreign minister Israel Katz' tweet about only Israel's enemies complaining about the IDF's latest attack demonstrates a shocking lack of compassion and misguided morals. It's bone-chilling how other people have reacted beneath his tweet 😳

https://t.co/l3RsGRvFei

[Will Essilfie @SonicWill]

The data and evidence exists in abundance, yet it's ignored again and again, something we see play out in relation to other issues like racism and sexism. It's not a case of needing more research, more about finding fresh ways to bring info alive & acting on what's already known.

[Will Essilfie @SonicWill]

No words... 😕

https://t.co/cWPKLM9zsp

[BERA @BERANews]

📝NEW BLOG POST

A hidden curriculum of certainty: Inadequate education in an uncertain world
@helen_hyyyy @citizen_LJ

Read here: https://t.co/w00PcF6ChF