I try to explain to people how weird we are about this in Lawrence. Like we will put John Brown with a gun on the bumper of our Prius that we drive to the studio where we teach mindful yoga to toddlers
“What should the writer of average talent do instead — pivot to front-facing video? Ask Claude for guidance? With postliteracy all but official policy, the lavishly funded assault on thought can’t be resisted through individual action alone — but it has to start there.”
beautiful, mind-bending piece by T.J. Clark arguing that palaoelithic art like the chauvet caves were a reaction to the rising hegemony of language over thought — a counter-proposal that attempted to dissolve the linear, hierarchical structure of language https://t.co/Tq039iAiSH