Archetypes
“Archetype” is the word that Jung used to refer to the contents and structures of the collective unconscious: inherited or innate potentials, forms, or ideas which are transformed into universal symbols once they enter into the conscious mind.
Sharon Blackie • Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life
The last remaining option is mal d’archive, the Kang solution: you ease the weight of all this cultural stuff by simply destroying it all. Like nerdery, this impulse has been waiting in the wings for a long time. It is also an emergent property of large stores of information, this drive ‘to burn the archive and to incite amnesia, the thing refuting... See more
The hipster was an information-sorting algorithm: its job was to always have good taste . The hipster listened to bands you’d never heard of. The hipster drank beers brewed by Paraguayan Jesuits in the 1750s. The hipster thought Tarkovsky was for posers, and the only truly great late-Soviet filmmaker was Ali Khamraev. The hipster bought all his toi... See more