Tag Archives: Art

RAD, MAD & BAD: The Analog Rebellion of Craig Baldwin and Other Cinema

Posted on February 11, 2024 by Luther Blissett

By Andy Prisbylla Source: We Are The Mutants In our current technocratic society, it’s incredibly rare to meet someone who is genuinely free. The erosion of the Consent Decrees of 1948—which allowed media conglomerates to own and control movie theaters—drastically altered … Continue reading →

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Saturday Matinee: Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

Posted on December 2, 2023 by Luther Blissett

By Matt Zoller Seitz Source: RogerEbert.com “Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time” is messy in the way that wakes for dear friends are messy. Some speakers go on too long, and there are others that you may wish you’d heard from … Continue reading →

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Chance Encounters as the Walls Close In

Posted on October 1, 2023 by Luther Blissett

By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtain “A treasure stumbled upon, suddenly; not gradually accumulated, by adding one to one. The accumulation of learning, ‘adding to the sum-total of human knowledge’; lay that burden down, that baggage, that impediment. Take … Continue reading →

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Did David Foster Wallace predict the future?

Posted on September 12, 2023 by Luther Blissett

Our world is more dystopian than Infinite Jest By Sarah Ditum Source: UnHerd Infinite Jest is frequently attention-repellent. David Foster Wallace’s brick-sized novel is physically challenging, an 800g book that forces you to flick back and forth to the errata. This is not … Continue reading →

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Reality Tunnels: How to Control & Re-Program Your Mind

Posted on April 9, 2023 by Luther Blissett

By Jack Fox-Williams Source: Waking Times When I was in secondary school, a teacher showed me an animated optical illusion in which a dancer appears to be spinning in one direction. I was adamant that the dancer was spinning clockwise, … Continue reading →

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Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly

Posted on May 22, 2022 by Luther Blissett

By Adam Mastroianni Source: Experimental History You may have noticed that every popular movie these days is a remake, reboot, sequel, spinoff, or cinematic universe expansion. In 2021, only one of the ten top-grossing films––the Ryan Reynolds vehicle Free Guy––was an … Continue reading →

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Alice Walker and the Price of Conscience

Posted on May 6, 2022 by Luther Blissett

Alice Walker was disinvited to the Bay Area Book Festival after Zionist groups threatened to carry out protests. The public and presenters are complicit in her blacklisting if they attend. By Chris Hedges Source: The Chris Hedges Report There is … Continue reading →

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The Future Is Here: Dystopian Movies Fit for a Dystopian World

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Luther Blissett

By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows … Continue reading →

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