Like I wonder if Star Wars is really anything but fancy childhood nostalgia with a little pseudo-buddhism thrown in.

Totally agreed! How gorgeous!

literalists of the imagination?

The confidence is def a product of social media and also the conversations around climate change. It became more important in critical theory circles to point to something that isn't arguable and is real. See Speculative Realism, Latour's endless claims that he's a realist, etc.

I lived through it and also can't believe it. Also: Kenesaw, I think, was involved in a search one of the years I was a Brittain Fellow, and my female colleagues told me horror stories about one of the older profs asking about the sexual scenes in Ulysses (ugh).

Can I just say how annoying it is that companies are constantly changing their shoe styles, despite keeping the same names? I guess I get why, but once I like something I want to keep it. :(

cute!

this is really freaking cool, esp the visualization.

[email protected] interestingly enough, William Blake belonged to the church of Swedonbourg a century later. He left the church b/c he found it to be too hierarchical, but definitely not b/c Swedonbourg had visions. Blake thought everyone had visions.

in all seriousness, they did find it in 2018.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2018...

That's ok, I dine with him frequently.

also, bunhill fields is near and dear to this Blakean heart.

For a moment, I really thought that Nicola Scott had illustrated something you wrote. lol.

Also, this isn't quite pre-history, but Leif Weatherby's book is pretty good on the linguistics and phil of language behind llms, specifically.