how to transform a parasocial fixation into a theory of fragments that's not so much a theatrically Aristotelian thread, but rather what might be, for many, their own memory: flashes from an imaginative archive, in this case juxtaposed with some of the most cryptic old tweets.[1]
@rarefilmsguy@latratory Omg thank you so much for this! Maybe outside the topic, but do you have her mother’s documentary of the making of her Marie Antoinette?
We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas
if pornography is bad, it is probably bc it degrades one's power of imagination, not because it encourages one to imagine bad things. in essence, it is bad bc it is television.
the photographic image in digital culture edited by martin lister. in my favorite section, they talk about the film memento vs titanic and how images connect to time and other times don’t that’s what the “tumblr” photo reminds me of