ritchie

@ritchie.bsky.social

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Recovering academic. I make tools for facial animation and game narrative at JALI. (@jaliresearch.bsky.social)

“I challenged one student about why he always wore headphones in class. He replied that it didn’t matter, because he wasn’t actually playing any music. In another lesson, he was playing music at very low volume through the headphones, without wearing them. When I asked him to switch it off, he replied that even he couldn’t hear it. Why wear the headphones without playing music or play music without wearing the headphones? Because the presence of the phones on the ears or the knowledge that the music is playing (even if he couldn’t hear it) was a reassurance that the matrix was still there, within reach. Besides, in a classic example of interpassivity, if the music was still playing, even if he couldn’t hear it, then the player could still enjoy it on his behalf. The use of headphones is significant here – pop is experienced not as something which could have impacts upon public space, but as a retreat into private ‘OedIpod’ consumer bliss, a walling up against the social. The consequence of being hooked into the entertainment matrix is twitchy, agitated interpassivity, an inability to concentrate or focus. Students’ incapacity to connect current lack of focus with future failure, their inability to synthesize time into any coherent narrative, is symptomatic of more than mere demotivation.” ― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Fascist frog saying feels good man
@pftompkins.bsky.social love your work but being anti-ball-expansion is lowkey homophobic ❤️❤️❤️ it’s ok though, keep loving and learning my dude
Tweet of tv interview Chantal Hébert: "I did not believe I would see a day when a government going into a negotiation with the United States would have the Prime Minister show a toy soldier of someone who actually went to war with the United States."
News story BREAKING: Doug Ford backs off government plane purchase, seeks to sell aircraft Jermaine Wilson Apr 19, 2026 at 11:21 am ~凸 Just days after announcing plans to buy a private jet, Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province will now move to sell its newly acquired plane, acknowledging concerns about the timing and cost of the purchase.