Johannes Grenzfurthner

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The Atoning Death of the Last Scapegoat The billionaire co-founder of PayPal, Peter Thiel, considers René Girard “heroic and subversive.” Vice President J.D. Vance, who learned of Girard through Thiel, attributes in part his decision to ent...

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Breakthrough CRISPR system could reverse antibiotic resistance crisis Antibiotic resistance is racing toward a global crisis, with “superbugs” projected to cause over 10 million deaths annually by 2050. Now, scientists at UC San Diego have unveiled a powerful new CRISPR...

This is really good.

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How Ukraine Is Turning to Renewables to Keep Heat and Lights On Russia continues to bomb Ukraine’s fossil-fueled power plants, leaving much of the nation shivering during a brutal winter. But Ukraine’s new emphasis on developing decentralized power — from solar pa...

“A coal power station [is] a large single target that a single missile could take out,” says Jeff Oatham of DTEK, Ukraine’s largest energy company (...) “You would need around 40 missiles to do the equivalent amount of capacity damage at a wind farm.”

#EnergySecurity

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What I learned today:
January 23, 1556, may have been the deadliest day in history: the Shaanxi earthquake in China is estimated to have killed around 830,000 people, at a time when the world’s population was only about 500 million, meaning roughly 0.166% of a

Yay!

Enjoy. Thanks to the conversion from 25 fps to 23.976 fps, it’s a few minutes longer! More for your buck!

The film ‘Solvent’ by Johannes Grenzfurthner on BlueRay from Film Movement, delivered to the UK as part of my Vinegar Syndrome shipment.

It’s here!
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Documentary Review: "Hacking at Leaves" traces America's journey from colonial past to present through the Navajo Nation - NPI's Cascadia Advocate This is a film that brings together the hacker ethos of radical collaboration, America's colonial past, and COVID-19 to paint a portrait of a country still reckoning with what it has done and what it ...

Ahmed Erdogan of the 'Cascadia Advocate' published a beautiful review of HACKING AT LEAVES.

"Hacking at Leaves is not an easy watch. It is a documentary that refuses to let history remain comfortably in the past."

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NICE!!

What he says.

Manifesto of Reality: Cinema After the Physical Trace Austrian filmmaker, artist and theorist Johannes Grenzfurthner outlines a charter for cinema’s future in a world increasingly influenced by artificial intelligence.

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By: Johannes Grenzfurthner on Friday, February 20, 2026

Art was always epistemologically unfair. But cinema rested on an indexical contract: light touched something real. AI severs that. Especially where images claim to document reality.
Without replacing the trace with transparency, images drift free of accountability. That’s political, not aesthetic.

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So when I write that films must indicate whether their images are physically referential/hybrid/synthetic, I'm making an ethical claim about disclosure. Meaning depends on ontology. If the trace disappears, transparency has to take its place. Otherwise the political legibility of imgs collapses.

2/3:
But my point is structural. In a post photographic condition, the burden cannot rest solely on spectators. If synthetic images seamlessly mimic physical traces, asking viewers to simply figure it out becomes epistemologically unfair.

1/3 Thank you! I would not frame it as either or. Viewers absolutely need to learn how to judge the ontological status of images. Media literacy is essential.

Manifesto of Reality: Cinema After the Physical Trace Austrian filmmaker, artist and theorist Johannes Grenzfurthner outlines a charter for cinema’s future in a world increasingly influenced by artificial intelligence.

I'm very honored that the @midwestfilmjournal.bsky.social published my text "Manifesto of Reality: Cinema After the Physical Trace."

A reflection on cinema after AI, and what happens when images no longer require a physical origin.

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Manifesto of Reality: Cinema After the Physical Trace Austrian filmmaker, artist and theorist Johannes Grenzfurthner outlines a charter for cinema’s future in a world increasingly influenced by artificial intelligence.

In a special guest essay, Austrian filmmaker, artist and theorist Johannes Grenzfurthner (grenzfurthner.bsky.social) outlines a charter for cinema's future in a world increasingly influenced by artificial intelligence.

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The age of copyright hyperlawyers, whether human or AI, is dawning.

Russia killed opposition leader Alexei Navalny using toxin from dart frog, UK says There is no innocent explanation for the toxin being found in samples taken from Navalny's body, Foreign Office says.

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A bit harsh.

Solvent (2024) Available March 24 #horror – #horrormovies – #Solvent – #FilmMovement – An American expat joins a team of experts searching an abandoned Austrian farmhouse for historical Nazi documents believed to be hidden within it. When they uncover a secret buried deep beneath the home, the team is forced to confront an ancient, insatiable evil intent on consuming them […]

#horror – #horrormovies – #Solvent – #FilmMovement – An American expat joins a team of experts searching an abandoned Austrian farmhouse for historical Nazi documents believed to be hidden within it. When they uncover a secret buried deep beneath the home, the team is forced to confront an ancient,…

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