Hello dear friends! While I continue to hammer away at this children's novel, please feel free to tide yourselves over with two nonfiction pieces that I've completed so far this year. Though they are both short in length, I believe they will prove sufficient food-for-thought (they certainly did for me). The first is just an … Continue reading 2022 Nonfiction
Author: christopherleewinn
Instant Art
I'm a tad obsessed with https://neuralblender.com/ at the moment. It's an AI bot that generates composite images based on the keywords you provide. It's possible to leave its text box blank and let it generate at random, or give it only one word, all the way to giving it entire poems and passages as I … Continue reading Instant Art
Closing in on a first novel
I've always liked Christmas--the aesthetic, even more-so than the presents. It's one of very few lapses into Old World sensibilities that an American may still occasionally witness. And for the non-Catholic, the Christmas carol by candlelight is perhaps our sole faint whiff of true pomp and circumstance. I remember believing in Santa Claus to roughly … Continue reading Closing in on a first novel
The Silver Lining
It pounds daily on the nerves: the insanity of numbers, the uncertain future… An epidemic of fear and naked need: lines of shoppers, long since a customary sight, once more form in front of shops, first in front of one, then in front of all… The lines always send the same signal: the city, the … Continue reading The Silver Lining
Happiness among the Miserable
Mankind thus inevitably sets itself only such tasks as it is able to solve, since closer examination will always show that the problem itself arises only when the material conditions for its solution are already present or at least in the course of formation.Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy Ultimately, the … Continue reading Happiness among the Miserable
The Leaders We Deserve
Osama bin Laden once warned al Qaeda not to target Joe Biden because he believed that his inheriting the presidency if something were to happen to Barack Obama would “lead the US into a crisis,” a resurfaced letter shows.NY Post Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up.Barack Obama I can sympathize with those who … Continue reading The Leaders We Deserve
“The Sage of Hyperia” now live!
https://youtu.be/nkPBgDufzl4 My first written episode for VivaEllipsis is now live on Youtube. It features gorgeous illustration by John Dooley and equally skillful narration by Richard Di Britannia. The text version is available here. Thanks to the mysterious creator of VivaEllipsis for the opportunity! Enjoy!
Affidavit of Civil Noncompliance with Biomedical and/or Transhuman Alteration
In the course of human history, the reaching of a mass consensus, especially when achieved in sudden urgency, has far more often presaged colossal errors than uniform correctness. All mass advances in reason, logic, and practicality which stand the test of time, rather than relying upon the cheap crutches of peer pressure, groupthink, and Presentism, … Continue reading Affidavit of Civil Noncompliance with Biomedical and/or Transhuman Alteration
The Metaphysics of COVID19
(My last post on the subject, for those who are sick of it---no pun intended). Please forgive the unconventional structure, but its piece-by-piece approach seemed to me the only way to avoid glossing over things that I find passé which may be crucial new information to some. By the end, my conclusion as to what … Continue reading The Metaphysics of COVID19
A Thought Experiment
A highly contagious, moderate-to-low mortality bioweapon escapes from a lab (intentionality is impossible to determine, so it is treated as irrelevant). The fact that it came from a lab is initially obstructed by global medical and political bodies out of the two-fold fear that the news could contribute to a racist sentiment (due to its … Continue reading A Thought Experiment
Christopher Lee Winn 