'The possibility of hope depends not on a greater knowledge of the facts but on imaginative capacity to think of what may be possible in the wake of annihilation' - so BEAUTIFULLY put. Loved the way you used the power of storytelling to convey your message!
After having read an ARC for absolution I can’t tell you how spot on your discussion of the various seemingly unrelated dominos that lead to the destruction of Centralia are in their relevance and parallels to Area X
you son of a gun. clicked in from twitter and the first thing I see is your quote from the book I have not been able to pick up and finish reading for 5 months. It is a good book! Why can I not finish it!
This was an excellent, wonderfully coherent combination of the excellent Vandermeer novels with their implications for human relations and climate. Looking forward to exploring more of this channel :)
Great video. My favorite kind of cultural critiques take real life events and find them in works of art. Lawrence Weschler did this with the Bosnian war and paintings by Vermeer and it always gives me a thrill when other people do it. Bravo, friendo, this was wonderful.
The existential dread from the first half almost had me clicking off the video. Glad I stayed around. My brother suggested your channel and I gotta say this video was definitely worth watching. Great Video Keep up the good work!
I did once have a go at creating a hyperobject (in the naive sense of something like a hypercube). But I soon found it becoming very complex. And even in the simplest form, I couldn't even say what equation of a curve I was using without getting into some pretty complicated maths (that may have in the end required something like the Reimann Hypothesis to prove a relationship was using I was true or not). One layer of the object itself was a sphere made of 60 spirals that had the illusion of a false perspective - making it appear as though the flat surface was three dimensional and infinitely regressive. But inside that sphere was other spheres of progressively smaller and smaller size, again that became infinitely regressive - with each of these spheres having their spirals intersecting with spirals on other spheres at difference points depending on how you looked at it. The whole thing was a complete mirage for the eyes to look at. But it was not perfect, and with more layers the effect broke down because of inaccuracies. But what was cool about it in concept was that you could trace any path you wanted because each curve was connected to other curves by tangents without any sharp breaks - so for all intense and purposes there was only ever one line, but this line could traverse multiple dimensions and cover all possible paths, which would be infinitely so and fill all available space at the very centre of the object itself.
loved this one (or at least as much as one can love a video about the world "being killed") i always want to make some clever point in these comments to let you know I, too, am an intellectual. But I'm struggling to find one, maybe I'll chew on it and come back. it can be easy to get lost in the doom spiral surrounding these topics and there is no clear answer, but its always good to see it from a new perspective.
Thank you so much for watching. And yes, I didnt want to have another video about how terrible everything is but hopefully this helps people see it from a new perspective.
I was doing a thesis on young adult dystopian lit, a future without a future, and the struggle between the Happy Ending With 2.4 Children and the dystopian end of despair, and my supervisors couldn't see why there is a kind of fascist inertia in that pressure on young adults, born well after the knowledge of how the capitalicene will kill us all, to secure an essentialist future.
I have been quietly asked to leave my PhD and everything else behind me, and to think on the good times, and not the unfairness of that leaving. I can't help but make these connections and I don't know what I am meant to do with them, now. There is a cruel and fascist logic to eternal growth. THere is an endless overlap of problems that cannot be solved in a PhD nor n a youtbe essay. I am glad I discovered your channel and intend to share it. But I am held locked in a Berlantian limbo with a queer certainty that heterotemporality is running short
Vandermeer, Mieville, Chiang, Butler and Ligotti have inspired my writing style and voice enough to develop my own new weird ecofiction. I hope all those writers get more and more attention over the years.
debates between the 'left' and 'right': - 'left': "material beliefs are 'aesthetic'" 'right': "material beliefs are 'ascetic'" everyone else: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
'The possibility of hope depends not on a greater knowledge of the facts but on imaginative capacity to think of what may be possible in the wake of annihilation' - so BEAUTIFULLY put. Loved the way you used the power of storytelling to convey your message!
Always means so much getting comments from you!
After having read an ARC for absolution I can’t tell you how spot on your discussion of the various seemingly unrelated dominos that lead to the destruction of Centralia are in their relevance and parallels to Area X
you son of a gun. clicked in from twitter and the first thing I see is your quote from the book I have not been able to pick up and finish reading for 5 months. It is a good book! Why can I not finish it!
Oh no! Please consider this motivation and support!
This was an excellent, wonderfully coherent combination of the excellent Vandermeer novels with their implications for human relations and climate. Looking forward to exploring more of this channel :)
I struggle a lot with climate despair... thank you for this. It's validating and even a little hopeful.
love ur videos
TH-cam's algorithm may suck burning garbage piles, but it's like treasure hunting. It's always nice striking youtube gold on my break at work.
thank you for being here!
Another brilliant video, Jon!! Goddamn, I have chills!
Thank you so much Bri, it's deeply appreciated 😊
Great video. My favorite kind of cultural critiques take real life events and find them in works of art. Lawrence Weschler did this with the Bosnian war and paintings by Vermeer and it always gives me a thrill when other people do it. Bravo, friendo, this was wonderful.
Thanks so much for watching. And yes, that's exactly what I was aiming for!
The existential dread from the first half almost had me clicking off the video. Glad I stayed around. My brother suggested your channel and I gotta say this video was definitely worth watching. Great Video Keep up the good work!
I'm glad you stuck around! Thank you so much for watching 😊
Starts with Anna Tsing quote... this is gonna be good 🔥
Thank you so much for being a part of it!
I did once have a go at creating a hyperobject (in the naive sense of something like a hypercube). But I soon found it becoming very complex. And even in the simplest form, I couldn't even say what equation of a curve I was using without getting into some pretty complicated maths (that may have in the end required something like the Reimann Hypothesis to prove a relationship was using I was true or not). One layer of the object itself was a sphere made of 60 spirals that had the illusion of a false perspective - making it appear as though the flat surface was three dimensional and infinitely regressive. But inside that sphere was other spheres of progressively smaller and smaller size, again that became infinitely regressive - with each of these spheres having their spirals intersecting with spirals on other spheres at difference points depending on how you looked at it. The whole thing was a complete mirage for the eyes to look at. But it was not perfect, and with more layers the effect broke down because of inaccuracies. But what was cool about it in concept was that you could trace any path you wanted because each curve was connected to other curves by tangents without any sharp breaks - so for all intense and purposes there was only ever one line, but this line could traverse multiple dimensions and cover all possible paths, which would be infinitely so and fill all available space at the very centre of the object itself.
This was really, really good. Glad to see you're back 🔥✊🌱
Thank you so much for watching 🙂
loved this one (or at least as much as one can love a video about the world "being killed") i always want to make some clever point in these comments to let you know I, too, am an intellectual. But I'm struggling to find one, maybe I'll chew on it and come back. it can be easy to get lost in the doom spiral surrounding these topics and there is no clear answer, but its always good to see it from a new perspective.
Thank you so much for watching. And yes, I didnt want to have another video about how terrible everything is but hopefully this helps people see it from a new perspective.
Just ridiculously good.
Much appreciated!
Based off the citations list, this should be great.
I hope so!
I was doing a thesis on young adult dystopian lit, a future without a future, and the struggle between the Happy Ending With 2.4 Children and the dystopian end of despair, and my supervisors couldn't see why there is a kind of fascist inertia in that pressure on young adults, born well after the knowledge of how the capitalicene will kill us all, to secure an essentialist future.
I have been quietly asked to leave my PhD and everything else behind me, and to think on the good times, and not the unfairness of that leaving. I can't help but make these connections and I don't know what I am meant to do with them, now. There is a cruel and fascist logic to eternal growth. THere is an endless overlap of problems that cannot be solved in a PhD nor n a youtbe essay. I am glad I discovered your channel and intend to share it. But I am held locked in a Berlantian limbo with a queer certainty that heterotemporality is running short
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jesus i knew about centralia but i never knew the whole story
It's a mind-blowing piece of history
Vandermeer, Mieville, Chiang, Butler and Ligotti have inspired my writing style and voice enough to develop my own new weird ecofiction. I hope all those writers get more and more attention over the years.
debates between the 'left' and 'right': -
'left': "material beliefs are 'aesthetic'"
'right': "material beliefs are 'ascetic'"
everyone else: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯