Caitlin Forster
@thenewsincerity
Caitlin Forster
There is no such thing as a “here problem”. Everything is an everywhere problem. At any point, the worst parts of the internet – which is to say, the worst parts of people – can descend on your town at terrifying speed. To see that environment rendered believably on screen is, ironically, the most thrilling part of it all.
Covid, social media, Black Lives Matter: Ari Aster's Eddington takes ...
imagine also is life: the life that is only imagined. Clatter of saucepans, steam from the kettle. Even to think about it is to live.
Sally Rooney • Intermezzo: The global #1 bestseller from the author of Normal People
The necessity of an ecological aesthetics, or not. We need an erotics of environmentalism.
Sally Rooney • Intermezzo: The global #1 bestseller from the author of Normal People
This brings us back to language, and how it can both conceal and reveal. In its “Japanese people first” slogan, Qudan explains, the Sanseito party uses the katakana word for “first”, rather than the traditional Japanese kanji word. “By using the katakana equivalent,” Qudan says, “a lot of the negative associations can be replaced by neutral ones. I... See more
Author Rie Qudan: Why I used ChatGPT to write my prize-winning novel
The Quiet Ear by Raymond Antrobus review – growing up between two worlds
theguardian.comBundled debt, trace amounts of antidepressants in the municipal water, the vast arterial network of traffic, changing weather patterns of increasing severity—whenever I looked at lower Manhattan from Whitman’s side of the river I resolved to become one of the artists who momentarily made bad forms of collectivity figures of its possibility, a propr
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AA: Certainty has gone for ever now. With the advent of deepfake and AI-generated imagery, belief in what we’re seeing and hearing is now forever gone.
AC: Which means that the most radical thing to do is to say the only way we’re going to move forward is by bypassing all those things, movies, most popular culture, as evidence of the future. It’s a ... See more
AC: Which means that the most radical thing to do is to say the only way we’re going to move forward is by bypassing all those things, movies, most popular culture, as evidence of the future. It’s a ... See more