Jozef Imrich, name worthy of Kafka, has his finger on the pulse of any irony of interest and shares his findings to keep you in-the-know with the savviest trend setters and infomaniacs.
''I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.''
-Kurt Vonnegut
This piece by Elitsa Dermendzhiyska about how and why psychotherapy works, the effectiveness of the bond between therapists and their patients, and attachment theory is interesting throughout but a bit tough to summarize. Let’s start here, with the idea that therapy provides the opportunity of a do-over in the building your emotional self that mirrors what happens, ideally, in early life between a loving, supportive caregiver and a child.
All of this suggests a tantalising alternative to both the medical professional’s and the layperson’s view of therapy: that what happens between client and therapist goes beyond mere talking, and goes deeper than clinical treatment. The relationship is both greater and more primal, and it compares with the developmental strides that play out between mother and baby, and that help to turn a diapered mess into a normal, healthy person. I am referring to attachment.
To push the analogy further, what if, attachment theory asks, therapy gives you the chance to reach back and repair your earliest emotional bonds, correcting, as you do, the noxious mechanics of your mental afflictions?
As someone who has been in therapy but doesn’t actually know a whole lot about how it works, I found the whole piece fascinating.
Lockdown was the longest period of quiet in recorded human history - MIT Technology Review: “When
lockdown started in March, the world went instantly, strangely silent.
City streets emptied. Joggers and families disappeared from parks.
Construction projects froze. Stores closed. Now a network of seismic
monitoring stations around the world has quantified this unprecedented
period of quiet. The resulting research
into “seismic silence,” published in Science today, has shown just how
much noise we contribute to the environment. It has also let scientists
get an unparalleled listen to what’s happening beneath our feet…”
Biologists named 5 newly-described species of Australian "assassin flies" after Thor, Loki and other Marvel heroes.
Why I Made This Future
is a recurring feature that invites speculative fiction authors,
futurists, screenwriters, and so on to discuss how and why they built
their fictional future worlds.
There is nothing boring about Tim Maughan’s works of speculative fiction, which concern, for example, the total destruction of the internet as we
know it, the insidious possibilities of monetized augmented realities,
and the full collapse of global supply networks. He writes such dramatic
devastations, he says, to better examine the digital injustices that
are perpetrated on ordinary people every day, and which can look rather
boring on paper: data profiling and automated trade networks and
surveillance capitalism and other drab inflections of our shitty
cyberpunk present.