Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
It’s surely no coincidence that the most popular ethnographic films of the post-war era either focused on the Kalahari Bushmen and Mbuti Pygmies (‘band’ societies, which could be imagined as roughly resembling hippie communes); or on the Yanomami or ‘fierce people’ (Amazonian horticulturalists who, in Napoleon Chagnon’s version of reality – but
... See moreDavid Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Kuleshov discovered that the extraordinary new medium of film took advantage of the human need to impose order on the world.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
The belief that human behaviour can be perfectly modelled, predicted and controlled entrains as a consequence the collapse of equitable relations between individuals and trust in institutions, and the substitution of algorithmic certainty for any semblance of participatory, democratic society. There is no appeal to collective, contestable
... See moreJames Bridle • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff Review – We Are the Pawns
The Hacking of Culture and the Creation of Socio-Technical Debt - Journal #146
e-flux.com
the work of Kuleshov and Eisenstein (the father of the montage, effectively the Kuleshov Effect in action),