Page from the book Nox by Anne Carson.
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People arrive at their beliefs about the future using various ideologies. But philosophers like Walter Benjamin found in astrology more than just an inane relic from a pre-scientific era.
https://captiveliberty.substack.com/p/the-new-angel
Part 4 in my series on Walter Benjamin asks "Can you kill an angel"? The answer, surprisingly, is Yes!
When to fight bad vibes and when to get the hell out.
Answers in my poem, "Vibrato". Read it here:
The babies absolutely lost it seeing this Kirby-Venom chimera. Went nuts, bouncing off the walls, howling.
Was Franz Kafka familiar with Pure Land Buddhist? He nearly certainly was not, and yet... https://captiveliberty.substack.com/p/infinity-eternity-and-immortality
What makes the combination of AI-generated Ghibli memes and authoritian shitposting so insipid? It's the latest instance in the long history of political kitsch. https://captiveliberty.substack.com/p/empire-slop?r=25k3x4
I wrote a book review on Philip K. Dick's classic science fiction novel, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch: https://open.substack.com/pub/captiveliberty/p/wrath-of-the-sky-deity-from-ritual?r=25k3x4&utm_medium=ios
Did anyone else realize Carl Jung began writing his first book to ward off the ghost army attacking his house?
On this day 84 years ago, philosopher Walter Benjamin died in Portbou, Spain. After climbing the Pyrenees by foot, Spanish border guards apprehended him as he sought escape from Nazi-held France.
Photo is the Portbou cenotaph erected in Benjamin's honor by artist Dani Karavan in 1994.
