I’m sure that by many accounts, the self-directed profanity of debunked crypto-billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried conforms nicely to those unwritten rules of etiquette for public atonement and humiliation in the information age. A practiced appeal to one’s pathetic nature is, after all, practically expected of every public figure at some point in their careers. It’s funny how ‘spontaneous’Continue reading “The Present is Big with the Future”
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Obama Trump Cagefight 2060 Part II:
If Part One considered Compulsion and Prohibition in those twitching corporeal habits of our public figures — snorts, clicks, blinks, grunts, winces, gurgles, hiccups and jerks; interruptions and intrusions which seem to unwittingly cement our connection to and fascination with them — it might still seem far-fetched that these bodily moments of drive and satisfactionContinue reading “Obama Trump Cagefight 2060 Part II:”
Obama Trump Cagefight 2060 (Part I)
It was fun rooting against that little bulldozer in the memes about the Ever Given last week, but did our mundane delight in the symbolism of the lodged ship (perhaps an all-too-eagerly awaited mundane; finally an apolitical, distant, comedic, blunder) miss a mark? Was there a Real source of fascination behind the images? Let’s considerContinue reading “Obama Trump Cagefight 2060 (Part I)”