Alex F 🇵🇸
@alexcfields
Words on avant garde film etc @toneglow, @InRO @ultradogme http://notreconciled.substack.com etc. Union steward, Appalachian, historical materialist. they/them
I think that being more interested in yourself than in global tragedy, and having a wildly inflated view of your own thoughtfulness, may be why people were upset with you to begin with, but go ahead and double down. Everyone else is to blame for how they post online, but not you
my tweet about wanting to preserve the definition of genocide remains viral and i’m kinda fascinated to watch the forces of polarization play out. i typically have zero exposure to the type of ppl who loudly shout extreme opinions using lots of insults and very few facts. i’m now…
this is why you don’t get your Nietzsche and Plato from AI summaries
It looks like Nietzsche was wrong and Plato was right High powered Ai models are begin to converge on a “hidden realm” of ideals This is very hard for the layman to follow, but think of it this way: If I ask you to look at a tree, and then ask you to imagine a tree - your…
the arc of American history is long but it bends, confusingly, towards Donald Trump getting shot and killed for being a pedophile by a guy who voted for him to stop the pedophiles and who is, himself, a pedophile
We have received 50 votes. Still hope we can, I dunno, double that? Side note: the Film Comment Best Experimental of 00s list had 46 voters with the #1 film receiving 17 votes. With 50 voters each submitting 15 titles, the film currently “leading” this poll has 8.
If you are a writer/critic etc. or artist/filmmaker etc. engaged in experimental film, media, video, etc., DM me if you want to submit a Best Experimental Cinema of 21st Century list. Trying to keep this semi/professional/ish but also broad/international. #GateKeeper
Why does John the Baptist look like he’s about to perform in an 80s hard rock band
the Crampton siblings need to slow down so we can have room for other artists on our best of the decade lists
being an executor for someone is very different from being their executioner, as it turns out. make sure you know which one you’re agreeing to
Broader than just this time period, but
I would love to read a general interest book about how pretty much every major world cuisine as we know it was completely reinvented over a period of 50-100 years in the wake of the Colombian exchange--chilis coming to India and China, tomatoes to Italy, etc. etc.
I don’t believe in Kantian ethics but I do wonder if the whole treating other people as an ends and not a means thing might be helpful to some of these guys who think it’s impossible to date women
more acid is almost always the right choice
My wife and I have irreconcilable differences regarding the amount of lemon juice to use when cooking.
John Donne - best English language poet of the 1630s Brooks & Dunn - best English language poets of the 1990s
does it feel this good to stretch because I’m high or because I’m 37 years old
let’s assume for the sake of argument that I’ve had several margaritas and want to watch a recently released horror film that is available to stream and is a little schlocky but also somewhat interesting, what movie would that be
Every work of art comments on its social environment in ways not explicitly conceived by its creators. That can include very specific details, or ideas opposed to other ideas the artists hold or think they do