Just posted some thoughts about the streamings of monocultural unconsciousness: “And how will this change us? Optimistically, we gain a wider republic of stories. A village without a cinema can still host a festival on a Tuesday night. We travel by subtitle; we acquire the grammar of distant lives. The long form affords moral patience, letting characters unfold beyond caricature. But attention, stretched and smoothed by auto-play, loses the useful roughness of intervals. The week between episodes once invited speculation, memory, the embroidery of talk. Compressed into a night, a season flows through us like a river whose banks we scarcely see.” #dystopia #streaming #apocalypse #monoculture #ragnarok #occulture #anartapart #carlabrahamsson

I just posted part 2 of my Colin Wilson appreciation: ”Wilson’s language of the robot remains one of his most durable contributions. In an age saturated by distraction, the notion that we live robotically—failing to notice the miracle of the present because our attention has been captured by habit and utility—feels prescient. His counsel to cultivate wakefulness aligns with contemporary mindfulness practices, yet differs in its insistence on intensity and will. Wilson admired the saints and mystics, but he also admired mountaineers, explorers, and scientists—anyone who demanded more from reality and therefore received more. He thus aligns with a tradition of Western vitalism that includes Nietzsche and Bergson, tempered by the phenomenological insight that meaning is co-created by consciousness.” #colinwilson #occulture #thefenriswolf #carlabrahamsson

Just posted an essay about the literary timelessness of Xenophobia. Nothing new under the sun, neither here nor over there… with the OTHERS: ”Still, literature is not a cure-all. It cultivates empathy and can sharpen suspicion. One page opens a window; the next rehearses a slur. Rather than imagining a straight moral ascent, it is truer to see an ongoing argument within the bookshelf. Readers learn to recognize signatures of fear: metaphors of dirt and infection, the tidy conversion, the noble demise that clears the stage for the dominant couple. Once learned, these patterns become audible even in works that otherwise enchant.” #xenophobia #anartapart #carlabrahamsson

Just posted a review of Vincent Peal’s excellent new photo book RITES & CEREMONIES: ”Let’s face the music and dance… These people’s approaches are very different from the consensus Western ones. We can clearly see that the ecstatic moment desired or needed to be able to transcend and enter the NUMINOUS seemingly needs a colorful, traditional and most often communal approach. The mechanics seem almost the same in all of these circumstances: upheave the normal mind-frame, shock the system, jolt the perceptions, and be temporarily free within these sacred and confined times and spaces. The mythic and strictly religious-symbolic trappings are essentially secondary. What these strange men and women do might just might be PURE religion in the most literal sense.” #vincentpeal #timelessedition #ritesandceremonies #huntingasia #occulture #carlabrahamsson