The Lost Word
Tara Isabella Burtonlanguage, magic, art, God || can beauty save the world?
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on inoculating yourself against brainworms
In Part I of this essay, I proposed that the best way of thinking about generative AI is as a Silph Scope: a mechanism for “seeing” concept-clusters (call them archetypes, egregores, or brainworms) encoded within the discursive world of hum...
on brainworms
If you are, like me, a reasonably nerdy person in your mid-thirties, you may have grown up playing one of the Pokemon Color games on your Gameboy Advance. If you are, also like me, someone instinctively drawn to the gothic and mystical, you...
on knowing what the hell you want
I’ve always been fascinated by the absence of choice. The love stories that have always resonated most with me, at least when I passed the age of Gothic frenzy (and maybe even then) are those in which love is a choice, or a submission, or a...
words: what are they good for?
My Parisian friend Sorrel thinks I take words too seriously. The French, she tells me, whenever she gives me advice on my personal life, understand the truth: that words are only ever a game. Words can be repartee; they can be a dance; they...
notes from the carnival
I wasn’t planning to go out, the first night of the carnival. This year was supposed to be quiet. It was mid-semester, and I had a book to write,, and two dozen interviews to conduct – this year, carnival is a field site. If carnival in Ven...
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Author of SELF-MADE, STRANGE RITES and the novels SOCIAL CREATURE, THE WORLD CANNOT GIVE, and HERE IN AVALON; writes on God, art, beauty, language, and imagination; in-progress: THE GREAT WORK, an intellectual history of magic and modernity
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