'Encountering out double'.......our double in the 'cloud', our supposed digital double. Trying to model the world on the head of a pin, so to speak, a trillion times more ridiculous and inaccurate and dangerous than our ancestors could have imagined. Fuck your 'cloud', Google boys. Poison dream.
And therein lies at least a paradox, a problem (of context and definition)if not an oxymoron 'civilised achievements'? Whst and hoe does one so define. Which era, whose cultural norms, upon what ethical base do they rest or hold authority?
Conrad wrote with imagination and from his somewhat disjointed European perspective. There's much room for critiquing.
'Encountering out double'.......our double in the 'cloud', our supposed digital double. Trying to model the world on the head of a pin, so to speak, a trillion times more ridiculous and inaccurate and dangerous than our ancestors could have imagined. Fuck your 'cloud', Google boys. Poison dream.
His gauntness shows him as an intellectual.
Interesting how in these post postmodern times being patriotic is out of date.
Being Polish is obviously very difficult.
Is this relevant to the Congo and the monkey pox?
The heart of darkness.
agreed, Cairn..
And therein lies at least a paradox, a problem (of context and definition)if not an oxymoron 'civilised achievements'? Whst and hoe does one so define. Which era, whose cultural norms, upon what ethical base do they rest or hold authority?
Conrad wrote with imagination and from his somewhat disjointed European perspective. There's much room for critiquing.