Benji
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Benji
Rehearsing possible lives
Tina He • Rehearsing possible lives
Method acting your options as a means to decision making
Memetic vs. Antimemetics
Interesting mention of Girard
“Bit of a Stretch” - linking media I consume to other media I encounter
I.e. lonesome dove review + changing world/new frontier essays about AI + music that fits aesthetically + cocktail recipe
📝Learning and ☕️Interest
☕️Interest and 📝Learning
In the era of infinite creation and consumption, it’s not the technicality of individual works but the authorship of aesthetic frameworks through them that matters. Authoring an iconic aesthetic—creating, coining, and embedding it in culture—may be one of the last defining acts of human creativity. The aesthetic is the art now. The aesthetic is the... See more
Anu Atluru • Aesthetic Warfare (and the Power of Coining an Aesthetic)
☕️Interest and aesthetics
We start out knowing nothing on the left, learn a lot from books and move to the middle, and then learn enough from experience, if we’re lucky, to end up on the right.
From intuition due to lack of alternatives, to reason, to intuition backed by knowledge.
I think that's where we are: moving past the stranglehold of the dogmatic rational materialist ... See more
From intuition due to lack of alternatives, to reason, to intuition backed by knowledge.
I think that's where we are: moving past the stranglehold of the dogmatic rational materialist ... See more
Packy McCormick • The Return of Magic
