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Hopeful Monsters

Étienne Fortier-Dubois

Culture, technology, and other macromutations

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Noticing the Beauty in Ads, Commerce, and Capitalism

“Characters from Plays as Merchants and Customers,” from the series Flourishing Business in Balladtown, by Utagawa Hiroshige (1852)

The Fushimi Inari shrine in Kyoto is one of Japan’s most popular tourist attractions. It is a large Shinto...

25 days ago
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Middle Age(s)

Wheel of the ten ages of man, from the Psalter of Robert de Lisle (c. 1310)

Some say that a human life can neatly be divided into thirds. Assume you’ll live to 90 — a healthy lifespan, slightly above most life expectancies — and you get th...

2 months ago
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What Are Your Guilty Displeasures?

Mosaic of the Muses, including Homer discussing with the Muse of epic poetry; found in Luxembourg (c. 240)

A guilty pleasure is something you genuinely like, but that clashes with your self image. For example, you might really be a fan of...

3 months ago
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Reflections From Leading the Board of a Small Music Nonprofit

Musicians and singers in the Triumphal Procession of Emperor Maximilian I, by Hans Burgkmair (1517-18); colored by Joseph Hoeger (1765)

  1. From 2020 to 2025, I sang in a choir. Well, more like 2022 to 2025, since the covid pandemic start...
3 months ago
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The Sun When It Is Behind Translucent Clouds, Pale, Moon-Like, and Painless to Gaze Upon

Paysage au disque, by Robert Delaunay (1906-1907)

I. Me, on a train, near Saint-Wenceslas, QC

I just saw it, a few weeks ago. That uncommon phenomenon where the sun is dimmed by thin clouds, making it white, well-defined, moon-like, a...

4 months ago
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