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owen cyclops

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Mar 29

it looks like the AI conversation is going to cement around “are artists are coping or not” but id like to submit a second option: that its worthy of skepticism that my broke friends are beholden to copyright laws that apparently don’t apply to tech people making a lot of money

the AI question really should be: are we doing wild west on copyright laws or not. if we are, okay - then that should apply to everyone. if we’re not - okay, then that should apply to everyone. everyone is basically arguing that now tech companies get to be the exception to them.

if my friends can get cease and desist letters for making fanart about a movie or franchise when money gets involved but a guy can also make a billion dollars feeding that movie and franchise into his image maker and selling access to it, i dont think its out of line to ask: what

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owen cyclops

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Mar 27

https://twitter.com/pjaccetturo/status/1904928890126053654

one key aspect of postmodernism is that art styles are self-consciously deployed as pastiche. this means theyre just used as surface, for what they represent: they become interchangeable. these almost meaningless academic concepts will increasingly characterize your everyday life

https://twitter.com/pjaccetturo/status/1904928890126053654

https://twitter.com/lxrjl/status/1905002004797120845

when an entire artistic milieu is used just for what it represents, not what it actually is (this already happened a long time ago), the blowback is that it becomes impossible to genuinely use and engage with those milieus. you can’t decide to not be self aware of this process.

https://twitter.com/lxrjl/status/1905002004797120845

https://twitter.com/mdurbar/status/1904872441899339963

this is, in my opinion, the actual origin of what is called “stuck culture”. to start a “nu-metal” band would be referencing what “nu-metal” is. you and the audience would both know that you’re aware of this. that awareness is the source of the “block” - everything is self aware.

https://twitter.com/mdurbar/status/1904872441899339963

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owen cyclops

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Mar 13

the 'people not having kids' trend: fascinating. people can do whatever. but as a larger trend, clearly something is up. likewise, when i ask the older generation why they all had kids, they don't know. they "just did"

so i looked up why non-human animals might not breed

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one fascination i have with this topic is that it seems to be instinctual, thus the turn to animals. in my parents friend group, they all had kids around the same time. i (probably too much) grilled them about why they all did this and they all gave some version of "we just did"

that's "just what you did". okay. as though compelled by something beyond them. not religious, running the spectrum of affluence, no clear answer. likewise, despite the internet obsession with this, there's no clear answer. internet? maybe. politics? maybe. nothing great, imo.

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owen cyclops

@owenbroadcast

Mar 9

‘what does the fox sign?’
(meta-animals in children’s literature)

animals seem to have an inherent symbolic content: winged birds have always been related to the spirit, we call someone “a rat” or “a pig”, or as in the intuitive relationship between lions and being a king.

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this is one level of symbolism: what does each animal mean? we can also climb up to a higher question: what do “animals” mean, as a class? how do we perceive and depict “animal”-ness? one case study of this is in an art and literature intersection often overlooked: kid’s books.

conveniently we have two artists we can compare whose careers begin almost exactly fifty years apart: beatrix potter, whose career starts right around 1900 (in art, this would be ‘modern’), and richard scarry, whose career starts right around 1950 (in art, this is ‘contemporary’)

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owen cyclops

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Feb 16

here's a book called richard scarry's busy busy world. i find this book extremely interesting from a pedagogical perspective.

our culture has taken the position of having an extreme aversion to stereotypes. well, that's all this book is: the stereotypes of each country.

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the story in france has people in fancy restaurants. the story in switzerland has goats climbing mountains. the story in mexico has a guy eating beans and buying clay pots. the story in india has a fortune teller. and so on. the entire content is just basic stereotypes.

i don't think you could do this with a major publisher today. it would read as educationally irresponsible, in a sense.

but, this book has allowed me and owen jr. to discuss other countries. he has a conception of holland, and talks about it, because of this book.

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owen cyclops

@owenbroadcast

Feb 14

what is the nature of the self in christian eschatology?

for those unfamiliar, eschatology is a branch of theology that just means, "how everything ends up". the final state of things. end of the story. how does this all play out? how the pieces land: that's eschatology.

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in the eastern system i'm the most familiar with, buddhism, there's a concept called shunyata. usually translated as emptiness - it means things are empty of inherent existence. like a sweater: you can see the sweater, but if you keep pulling threads off, you never get "it".

the self in buddhism, in my experience, is like this. it's a momentary aggregate of interdependent factors. its like a ball of things that only has provisional existence. it's there, but it's not eternal, like a ball of twine that just happens to be stuck together right now.

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