W.D. Clarke’s Reviews > The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves – An Irreverent Call to Reawaken Imagination and Defend Cultural Freedoms > Status Update
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Why we probably shouldn't sub-out the machine learning for the military's autonomic drone program to Hollywood:
Guns don't kill; people do. Hit first, ask questions later. Make my day. Do you feel lucky, punk? Hasta la vista, baby. I love the smell of napalm. I'm not going to hit you. Like hell I'm not.
— Mar 28, 2021 11:18AM
Guns don't kill; people do. Hit first, ask questions later. Make my day. Do you feel lucky, punk? Hasta la vista, baby. I love the smell of napalm. I'm not going to hit you. Like hell I'm not.
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W.D. Clarke
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Art is most properly useful when it doesn't know exactly what it is about. It is most real when it is merely following its nose. That the artistic imagination must do its work formally, through invention, and not through self-certain didacticism, or "meaning," is art's way of confessing that it doesn't quite know what it means but that it is willing to assert its claim on the future anyway.
— Apr 06, 2021 01:33PM
W.D. Clarke
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Literature has the power both to critique and recuperate, to "think change".
As William Carlos Williams wrote in Kora in Hell,
— Apr 05, 2021 07:52AM
As William Carlos Williams wrote in Kora in Hell,
There is nothing sacred about literature, it is damned from one end to the other. There is nothing in literature but change and change is mockery. I'll write whatever I damn please and as I damn please and it'll be good if the authentic spirit of change is on it.
W.D. Clarke
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[w/ Hegel] one does not begin philosophy with a definite notion of method. One begins by beginning. My models...are books without method ..., that are not sure what they think, but think passionately &purposefully nonetheless against the administered world of the "automatic"... which yearn for what [they] can't adequately express, and offer us as consolation the exemplary art of [their] own critical activities.
— Mar 20, 2021 12:51PM
