snapshots of an artificial life
@artificial-life.bsky.social
reject imposed obligations, expectations and roles.
GDR Stasi Degenerate Youth Guide Translation (left column to right column): Teds (Teddy Boys) Age: 15-30 years Fanatical loners who follow the 1950s rock 'n roll. Clothing in the style of 1950s youth: skinny jeans, pointed shoes. Hair in old-time Elvis "duck" curls. Politically disinterested.
PRISON CELL [Designed by French anarchist Alphonse Laurenčič in 1938, for Spanish Republican forces] Laurenčič's “psychotechnics” — inspired by Kandinsky, Klee, Buñuel and Dalí — were intended to torture Franco Nationalists: Laurenčič used green, because he felt it would inspire sadness…
Staring at our rectangles, Lost, in the infostream… #phones #screens #media #broadcast #spectacle #lost
Fascism demands the obedience of an in-group. In exchange, it provides this group with the ecstasy of watching the sadistic abuse of a designated out-group. They broadcast this violence, or publish it, to remind viewers how powerful they are: archive.is/FAG0g#select... (1/3)
ICE is no "law enforcement agency". It's Trump's Sturmabteilung. Comprised of untrained, violent white nationalists — including participants in his 2021 auto-coup attempt — its purpose, for now, is to terrorize the public.
Auvity, Cyril (1962) [The Addict]
