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Solidarity is a product of imagination as well as of action, because a practice of care for one another in the present consists in resisting the desire to plan, produce and solve. Those are the imperatives of corporate and technological thinking, which bind us to oppositional world views and binary choices.
Ways of Being
James Bridle
In Catholic doctrine, as far as my understanding goes, beauty, truth and goodness are properties of being which are one with God. God kind of literally ‘is’ beauty (and also truth, which maybe is what Keats meant, I’m not sure). Humankind strives to possess and understand these properties as a way of turning toward God and understanding his nature; therefore whatever is beautiful leads us toward contemplation of the divine.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
Artificial intelligence has been catnip for fascists ever since its earliest days, a trait it has not lost today.
Emily F. Gorcenski
Norman Packard
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