What happens when your vision is so avant-garde that it feels like a timeless future? You open a new window and stare into a wormhole that gets you across different timelines and alternate realities.
Why don’t we read books anymore? Is it because our span of attention is getting thinner and thinner? Is it because there are no more good writers in the world or did we get bored of the good ones that passed? Maybe, but it’s just an hypothesis based on no scientific data, we got scared […]
Ted Chiang has been writing compelling, complicated, sometimes twisted novels since he was in high school, and you may know him if you ever saw Villeneuve’s movie Arrival, which is based on his novel Stories Of Your Life. Each one of his short stories leaves us with more questions than answers, and that’s because his […]
If you’re a filmmaker, what subject could be more interesting than… your cats? This is not just an amateur movie about cats, it can be read as a statement. Avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren made art out of images by following amateurism, as a practice of invention free from the laws of profit, and the possibility […]
“You can do what you want / the opportunity is on” sang Cat Stevens, “You can be whatever you want” says every feel-good quote all over the Internet. Well, what if I told you that you can literally be anything you want to be, from a grass leaf to a penguin, from the Higgs Boson […]
Do you ever feel like everything you own — your beliefs, your personality, your taste, your sexual orientation and so on — could be capitalized into brand-awareness campaigns? In today’s world, there’s merely any distinction between cultural products and marketing strategies. Nothing is free anymore, neither are we. We’re all data, and we’re all on […]
All the revolutions in the world started with a de-centralization. With Galileo we discovered we are not the center of the universe, with Freud we discovered we are not even the center of our own selves. Now, we are discovering the limits of the idea of progress, as the global crisis is putting us in […]