A series of initiations · Tom Thudiyanplackal

In Defense

of what deserves defending

One volume at a time, this series takes up the things worth defending against the machinery that cheapens them — beginning with the art form that first made its author, and moving toward the self and the human.

Volume I

In Defense
of Cinema

An Initiation — a.k.a. An Antidote to AI Slop

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What cinema is, what it has been capable of at its highest, and what is now being done to it by the apparatus that captured it.

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Volume II

In Defense
of Selfhood

In progress

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On the relationship of one — the undying commitment to self that stands above the duplicity sold as religion, morality, and the rest of what society was constructed on.

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Volume III

In Defense
of Humanity

Forthcoming

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On what persists once the fallacies are named — and what remains worth defending in one another in spite of them.

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Further volumes will be announced here.