Tag: animism

• Screening Room with Jean Rouch – PREVIEW

  July 30, 2024

  Available at https://ift.tt/pE4Pc7S From the Screening Room series by Robert Gardner color, 64 min, 1980 Jean Rouch appeared on Screening Room in July 1980 and screened Les Maitres Fous as… more ›

• Hauka

  July 26, 2024

  Becoming your enemy is the deadliest and most effective strategy at your disposal, and one that should be avoided at any cost. more ›

• For the entire 20th century, it had felt like telepathy was just around the corner. Why is that especially true now?

  June 23, 2024

  Telepathy might initially seem a much softer, psychological proposition, tainted with a sense of the supernatural. Yet both Campbell and Clarke were lifelong advocates of the view that telepathy was… more ›

• Kevin Roose’s Shoggoth

  January 27, 2024

  Just under a year ago, the NYT journalist Kevin Roose was freaked out by a conversation with Microsoft’s Large-Language-Model (LLM) based Bing. https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/kevin-rooses-shoggoth more ›

• “AI EEEEEEE!!!”

  April 29, 2023

  You might want to write these words off as mere figures of speech, but in a way that’s the point. What is a chatbot other than a figure — a mask, a… more ›

• The Weird and the Banal

  April 29, 2023

  The last post hereabouts was a doozy. “AI EEEEEE!!” was my somewhat feverish take on AI, and I am still working through feedback from the piece, most insistently from my… more ›

• Lunga Ntila — nataal.com

  June 20, 2021

  “I have made myself a vessel for higher powers to work through me, I have opened up my heart” https://nataal.com/lunga-ntila more ›

• Heraclitus

  May 8, 2019

  Heraclitus of Ephesus (/ˌhɛrəˈklaɪtəs/;[1]Greek: Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Ἐφέσιος, translit. Hērákleitos ho Ephésios; c. 535 – c. 475 BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, and a native of the city of Ephesus,[2] then part of the Persian… more ›

• The Spirituality of Africa

  February 22, 2019

  One of Jacob Olupona’s earliest memories in Massachusetts is of nearly freezing in his apartment as a graduate student at Boston University during the great snowstorm of 1978. “I had… more ›

• The Poesis of Mimesis in Les Maîtres Fous: Looking Back at the Conspiratorial Ethnography of Jean Rouch

  January 3, 2019

  While on a surface level the film recounts an African possession ritual which critically burlesques colonialism, many viewers found it to have a colonialist perspective, exoticising “primitive” practices and reinforcing… more ›