“A disruptive exogenous event can often quickly illuminate hidden assumptions and flaws in earlier assumptions, and the radicalizing experience of the COVID-19 terror is just how decisively consensus narratives about epistemic hygiene and _...Read More_

Subjective realities are on the ascendant. We are living through an era of unprecedented increase in our ability to craft our own realities through culture in powerful ways. It is now possible to create small-scale subcultures with the _...Read More_

"In his work (most notably, his documentaries), Herzog seeks this “ecstatic truth”: to reflect reality not how it is on the surface, but how it is on a deep level, beyond the façade of what we merely perceive. [...] This what bothers me _...Read More_

Good thread about this from [@robhorning](/user/profile/robhorning) “the "fakeness" of deepfakes is not necessarily supposed to trick people; viewers know it's fake and enjoy seeing a hidden "truth" revealed symbolically _...Read More_