#ewan morrison

[sesiondemadrugada]

Ewan Morrison.

[zombilenium]

Hotel y Salto del Tequendama, Colombia

The "haunted" Hotel del Salto In Colombia. Local myth says that the broken hearted of the 19th C used to leapt to their deaths from the hotel’s cliffs overlooking the Tequendama falls. Before that indigenous Muisca Indians jumped from Falls to avoid capture by Spanish conquerors.

Credit: @MrEwanMorrison

[tsuchiman]

In the 90s we believed we were living in a 'post-mortem' era in which all the hidden graves of the 20th century would be exposed, the atrocities analyzed, the lessons learned. Lest we forget. We also thought we’d entered a time in which the Silicon Valley dream of digitizing all knowledge from the entire history of the printed and spoken word would lead us towards the infinite free library, the glass house of truth and the global village of free information flow. The future would be a time of endless remembrance and of great learning. How wrong we were. The metaphor of the glass house has turned into that of the mirrored cube. The global village has collapsed into tribal info-warfare and the infinite library is now a war zone of battling conspiracy theories. The internet has become a tool of forgetting, not remembrance and the greatest area of amnesia is the subject that Milan Kundera spent his entire life trying to preserve, namely the horrors of communism... If you want to make data vanish these days, don’t try to hide them, just come up with four other bits of data that differ greatly and start a data-fight. This is historical amnesia through information overload.

Ewan Morrison, Milan Kundera Warned Us About Historical Amnesia. Now It’s Happening Again

[scififr]

For Emma, par Ewan Morrison (Arcade, juin 2025)

Quelques temps après un attentat à la bombe meurtrier à San Francisco, une éditrice reçoit un ensemble de fichiers vidéo qui racontent le chemin de deuil et de vengeance d’un père persuadé que sa fille a été victime des agissements d’une entreprise de biotechnologie…

Un texte émouvant mais trop long, et également un peu trop complotiste. Quoique…

[kukkotar]

Utopian ideas for communities and how they won’t work

The article contains a lot of research on Utopian communities in literature and has an account on personal experiences in a few intentional communities that still exist today. I found the text important to read, there were several passages that made me rethink the practices and thoughts I’m following in my communal life, and how to make them better. There are, however, many parts that I don’t agree with, according to my experience in communities. There are several ways to learn about those failures and I see communities that have done or are doing that already. Anyway, this was a good read and it’s always great to get new perspectives on my own thoughts and develop them. 

https://areomagazine.com/2018/03/08/why-utopian-communities-fail/

[liveforfilms]

Downton's Elizabeth McGovern swings in Swung

Downton’s Elizabeth McGovern swings in Swung

Swung is a seductive, frank and revealing exploration of the secret underside of a very modern relationship.

David’s (McDonnell) life is on the slide: he’s in the middle of a divorce and has seen his business go bust. Positive and supportive, his girlfriend Alice (Anaya) is his rock, but she’s under pressure to find a good, compelling story for the magazine she writes for. (more…)

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Unrepresented by media

Unrepresented by media - George Monbiot is part of the problem #indyref

Like most bloggers, I started because I felt I had something to say that wasn’t being said in the mainstream media.

George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist: I respect and admire his writing in general.

But with regard to Scottish independence? I wish he’d shut up.

There’s nothing personal about this. I wish all of the politicians, columnists, and other People Paid To Have An Opinion would get…

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[ubersinnlich]

Without objective distance, there is no contemplation; without contemplation there is no metaphysics. Virtuality and interactivity are the death not just of art but also of culture itself. Interactivity is a vacuum, a self-perpetuating, self- referring, closed circle that coils in on itself.

*Ewan Morrison, Ten Reasons why the Art World Hates Digital Art, 1998