Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. https://t.co/T2GOao28ux
High-Rise is such a prophetic novel that it’s almost unbelievable at times. Ballard doesn’t just predict social media here, he doesn’t just predict Instagram, he predicts Instagram Stories, and he does so with such insane precision that he specifically mentions the FILTERS. 1972!
Time for a periodic reminder (given that mainstream narratives all too often imagine ECtHR judges as materializing unbidden from the ether) that actually they’re elected by the @PACE_News, from a list of three candidates nominated by democatically legitimated States.