Weird Studies/Rodney Ascher

29 Sep 2022 - 29 Sep 2022
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    • Weird Studies Episode 12: The Dark Eye: On the Films of Rodney Ascher
      • Didn't realize he did that film about the demonic Screen Gems logo:
        • The S From Hell (short film about a generation traumatized by a corporate logo)
      • Some stuff on the radical unknowability of the universe which makes me slightly uncomfortable. Not sure why. I mean, yes, the universe is radically unknowable, but still not sure if I'm ready to celebrate it quite as much as these guys, to welcome the darkness.
      • Yes I am strangely conflicted and not sure why, because I think I do welcome the darkness in my private thoughts. But in a public forum I have a tendency to get defensive, put on my rationality-and-enlightenment uniform and go to war. It's that MIT training.
      • Of course MIT and tech people have their own ways of being weird. They do not actually want to convert the universe into knowable bits, for the most part. The rationality of the MIT hacker is not the same rationality of, say, the RAND corporation and Robert McNamara. But they are related.