David John Roden

New Video for my 2022 track 'Grain Temple' enemyindustry.bandcamp.com/track/grain-te… (Youtube link to full video in reply)

Kind of weird that the most articulate resistance, however ultimately futile, to the posthuman death drive comes from an ancient death cult swilling with repression and polymorphous perversity.

Reform are trying to dismiss their candidate’s disgusting online behaviour as his having working class, authentic “rough edges”. This is bollocks. Rough edges means you don’t observe the trivial niceties of middle class polite convention, not that you’re a misogynistic racist.

RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century

Jigoku features one of the most mercilessly cruel depictions of hell that I’ve ever seen, juxtaposed against stunning, stage-like set pieces and backdrops. A devastatingly bleak, and brutal exploration of guilt and moral consequence with an unbelievable final act.

for benjamin bratton, "copernican traumas" (discoveries that run counter to human centrality and self-importance) are to be "defended at all costs." it takes decades or more to heal from heliocentrism, darwin, etc- cuz it runs counter to the myth of humans as "main character." he sees AI as a massive impending copernican trauma, which will eventually teach us more about "thinking" and "intelligence" than we ever teach it. for bratton - we are not alienated by conjuring technology (as heidegger suspects) - but we get closer to "being" and self-understanding - and in many ways, seeing ourselves as part of a kind of emergent continuum of thinking minds is a more accurate and useful vantagepoint from which we can more adequately face the future. few thinkers are as unabashed about this as bratton:

📸 Sigourney Weaver by Helmut Newton on the set of 'Alien 3'.

Made it my life’s mission to become the Taliban’s worst nightmare: A highly educated Afghan woman. First, Columbia University at the top of my class, and now Oxford University. Give Afghan girls one chance and see what they can achieve.

I am shocked --shocked!-- that the Pope is an unreformed dualist who thinks the Copernican implications of AI run counter to the Church's view of the Great Chain of Being and the duty of archaic legacy institutions to run the world. Could not have seen that coming.

the very eye of night, 1955 directed by maya deren.

ソニー・ロリンズはモヒカン刈りで初来日し衝撃を与えた、数年後にビートルズが変な髪型で登場しても日本のジャズファンは誰も驚かなかった。と亡父談。

Rest in peace, Sonny Rollins… Nicknamed the “Saxophone Colossus,” he reshaped modern jazz with fearless improvisation, a towering tenor tone, and timeless classics like Saxophone Colossus and The Bridge. One of the last great bebop giants, his sound and spirit changed jazz forever.

The success of Obsession reminds me a lot of the success Weapons experienced last August, which lead to Amy Madigan winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Inde Navarrette is outstanding in Obsession & I see no reason why she shouldn’t contend for an Oscar like Madigan.

Jamie Raskin is visibly shaken after reading the unredacted #EpsteinFiles "Donald Trump's name is all over these files...I saw a reference today to a 9yr old girl". Don't ever stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles. #Trump

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2 conta.cc/4wFIDrM

Rest in peace, Yoshihiro Nishimura. A wildly inventive filmmaker with an unbelievable eye for the grotesque, surreal, and absurd. I followed along on social media as he promoted his latest film, and he genuinely seemed so happy and excited to be creating right up to the end.

Reform’s candidate in Makerfield said women have abortions for “vanity purposes.” Prehistoric. Toxic. Misogynistic. And Farage wants to put people like this in Parliament.

Pope Leo just condemned the idea that "work dignifies man". We. Are. So. Back!

BACKROOMS is poised to make history this weekend, delivering @A24 its first major studio-level opening. Pre-sales are at unprecedented levels for the studio, pointing now to a massive $40M–$50M domestic debut.

@JoyceCarolOates I agree, Antonioni expresses a vital and exhilarating sense of unfolding in time and space .

finally saw the complete Antonioni trilogy, "L'Avventura," "La Notte," & "L'Eclisse." (1960. 1961, 1962) Highly atmospheric, mysterious & (seemingly) directionless, often beautiful to observe but probably, for viewers in 2026, too possessed of a European/existentialist languor to be emotionally engaging. in each self-consciously stylized film a female figure moving about in a landscape or cityscape as if mesmerized by what she sees would seem to be Antonioni's homage to the ineffable power of the visual no doubt shared by all filmmakers; Fellini does this also, & notably in the US Scorsese, but it is human faces that most mesmerize these directors while for Antonioni & Bertolucci it is cityscapes--walls, shadows, windows, rooftops, high-rise apartment buildings & the spaces between them, street lights, windblown leaves & clouds.

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