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This! I left evangelical churches to get away from freak ideologues! Im far from the first to observe how many leftists may have exited religious spaces without working to rid themselves of those religionsā€™ anti-materiality

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RHrhiggitt.bsky.social

One for those who enjoy the details and materiality of design. I still find it odd that the Mildmay Line is named after the hospital (which is nearest to stations on the Windrush Line) and not the area Mildmay, which it passes through www.sjsp.org.uk/history/

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CEcollecol.bsky.social

On Thursday 9 January, 5pm GMT Abbi Flint & Rose Ferraby will discuss 'Fish Out of Water: Exploring the History, Meaning and Materiality of a Museum Mercreature'. /4

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Chapter 2 "Writing with Air in The Third Policeman" by Julie Bates Explores The Third Policeman's experiments with the materiality of air via both the novel's wartime contexts and its affinities with aeriform artworks from Marcel Duchamp to David Horvitz www.corkuniversitypress.com/978178205001...

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PRrj-02092024.bsky.social

What are we seeing in the world today? The relaxation of divine commandments, of faith, in a dangerous departure from the paths we should follow for the moral and spiritual progress of humanity. The excuse? Modernism disguised as the materiality of life, today confused with bad character.

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BWbaudrillardwarned.us

"For this latter, contrary to the negentropic illusion of information theory, is itself part of entropic dissipation, of that destiny of restricted materiality, that destiny of greater visibility, transparency and hypercoincidence which takes us ever further from the initial ..." - The Perfect Crime

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DAdavdittrich.bsky.social

all, because they need us to look when using them." Materiality and embodiment ftw. [gift link, courtesy of the author] https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/touch-screens-are-over-even-apple-is-bringing-back-buttons-86fb9ea8?st=XPWkwV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink orig ā€¦ 2/3

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JKjaykaydee.bsky.social

not scholarly-critical but this long reported feature on the actual workers training AI in Kenya and elsewhere is really great at getting at the materiality of AI's colonialism: www.theverge.com/features/237...

Inside the AI Factory
Inside the AI Factory

How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Millions.

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BWbaudrillardwarned.us

"And the world will be seen to have taken on force of reality, force of materiality, only for an intermediate phase, in which there was a possibility of establishing a few laws, a few physical constants that are already becoming problematic at sub-atomic level." - The Perfect Crime

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PRrj-02092024.bsky.social

Then the Catholic Church replaced reincarnation with the resurrection of the dead at the Last Judgment, leading people to the false belief of a single life and consequently to carpe diem. That is why we have a world today focused on the materiality of life. Zero spiritualization.

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