History of ideas and science, University of Gothenburg. Sometime critic, constant hylic.
Hjalmar Falk
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Nu är jag i mitt rätta element, alltså Centraleuropa (Krakow).
En legendar har gått i graven. John Blanche är död.
Tack antikvariat.net (har aldrig sett den här på Bokbörsen)!
The sad thing is the world of information was always open to you, and a while ago social policy was to give you lots of possibilities and Vergils (libraries, community colleges, activist spaces) to explore it. AI is a technical solution to a social problem, and as most such solutions it’s a sham.
(This is from 1981 btw)
I’ve never considered the extent of Adorno’s influence on Baudrillard before. Feels rather stupid to not have made the connection.
Det är ofattbart – och så väldigt talande – att dessa rapporter inte utlöser större harm och undersökningsvilja i västerländska medier och politiska rum.
Baudrillard.
But also this phenomenon, only remixing from a cultural archive, has been the standard mode of the film industry in particular long before AI (sequels, „franchises“, „IP“s), and the photorealistic of Light and Magic has been long gone - see the very first „clean-up“ of the Star Wars films.
The Dec 2025 election of José A Kast in Chile has been reported as yet another victory of the contemporary far right. Rather than an unexpected outlier, however, Kast's relation to Chile’s trajectory of neoliberal authoritarianism is a family tradition. Part 1 here. brooklynrail.org/2026/04/fiel...
