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The Electrical-Umbilical Battery Status

I think my phone spends more time charging than it does vice versa. This is mentally sound. In fact, I don’t trust the battery status to just show me a green, yellow, or red to signify what my battery level is at. I want to see the exact percent I am currently operating at—how much abstract time remains for the object of my love and adoration to continue serving me.

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The Spectaclist

The Spectaclist loves the news. They love popular culture. They love to consume, to watch, to stay up to date. They live in the now, present in contemporary understandings. Which could never be a futile feedback loop of hopeless misery.

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W3/WQ

10 8 quotes from academic writers a week. Appearances from Shoshana Zuboff, Guy Debord, Big Marsh Luhan, Kierkegaard, and more.

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CIC: Industries in Motion 2024 Event Recap

CIC: Industries in Motion 2024 was a huge success, building on the achievements of last year’s CIC where students had opportunities to broaden their perspectives on career paths. Celebrating its 11th year as a pivotal event offered by CMNSU, CIC once again provided students with invaluable opportunities.

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Art on the Edge of the Abyss

What does it mean to see beauty amidst destruction and catastrophe? To create from a place of pain and desolation? Why is it that some of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces of art come from the depths of human suffering and the abstraction of the banal?

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Why I Write

“So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.”

- George Orwell, Why I Write

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A Violent Entertainment

No entertainment you consume can be digested into waste, it stays tumourlike. Keep gorging—your near future will resemble nothing human. What would your mirror reflection look like if it showed your media body? Your media mass index (MMI) will swerve higher than 25. You are obese on entertainment—your consumption is violence.

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W1/WQ

10 quotes from academic writers a week. Appearances from Nick Land, Hannah Arendt, Sadie Plant, Jean Baudrillard, and more.

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Seasonal Depression

Is there a vitamin that can give me the sensation of rain. The equivalent of what vitamin D is for the sun. My seasonal depression seems to always point to the want that the weather is not gloomy or cold enough.

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Selling Out

It really sucks that selling out is not really criticism that holds much ground these days. We live in the age of the entrepreneurial artist, the era of ‘getting your bag.’ We have gone full simulacra; popular artists now aren’t even artists; they are just ornaments and decorations on the product.

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Modern Mimicries of Creativity

The consequence of our contemporary era’s understanding of the utilization of creativity is a desire for control over the emotional/material conditions of life that leaves a wallowing want for more. Contemporary mimicries of creativity are realized as an unauratic, surface-level embodiment of segments of meaning that lost their genuineness long ago—appearing, but like lensless spectacles.

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