broke: artists are having big moods about things and then telling us about the big moods they had so we can go wow man bespoke: artists are inventing new ways to have big moods about things and then teaching the entire species how to have the big moods
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feeling the not-so-much-angry-as-nonplussed shade of Philip K. Dick animate me as i throw out ideas that can and will launch a thousand careers in cheap popular media like they’re trash so i can get back to writing robots exploding
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oh fuck me Le Guin’s “The Author of the Acacia Seeds” isn’t about a culture so enlightened and sensitive it can’t bear to let anyone’s art go unappreciated it’s about a culture as relentlessly imperial about other species’ affective technology as we are about their biology
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now, some people might say that since this paradigm will inevitably lead to copyrighted, focus-grouped mass-market corporate emotions, the genie should not be let out of its bottle good thing i’m a motherfucking accelerationist
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not an uncommon idea that there may be emotional states that are completely unattainable to human beings because of the way our cognition works but are entirely possible in other hypothetical sentiments but the concept is not well explored (very hard to make fiction about it)
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sentients* (with different mind architectures)
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then you win
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I'm honestly not convinced humans can invent new emotions, but this ability should eventually become experimentally testable so, whatev
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