Archive - Art and Survival

Optimize or Improvise?

Fun in the Face of Information Overload

Mar 24 •

Michael Valladares

January 2025

A Sonnet On Optimism

And Keeping Your Chin Up

Jan 24 •

Michael Valladares

December 2024

On Making Art in Times of Change

Every Time's a Time of Change

Dec 19, 2024 •

Michael Valladares

October 2024

Creativity is for Everyone

Meditating on a Physicist's Definition of Creativity

Oct 4, 2024 •

Michael Valladares

September 2024

August 2024

A Sonnet for Her

Proximity to Death is a Reminder to Live

Aug 30, 2024 •

Michael Valladares

Physical Libraries vs. Digital Archives

Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Prescient Take on the Inimitable Smell of Books

Aug 23, 2024 •

Michael Valladares

Three Plays I Saw Last Week

Poser Activism, Dead Dads, Gay Sons, and Ballroom Cats

Aug 10, 2024 •

Michael Valladares

Memetic Culture and the Destruction of Nuance

On the Transformation of Information into Entertainment

Aug 2, 2024 •

Michael Valladares

July 2024

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