August Day

August Day is an independent scholar living in America with his wife and dog.
The Historical-Reflective in Hitchcock’s ‘The Lady Vanishes’

The Historical-Reflective in Hitchcock’s ‘The Lady Vanishes’

Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes depicts a variety of cultural deaths as they were happening. No small feat for a light comedy with sex-farce undertones. 

The Idols of the Twilight: AI in Our Age of Inventive Divination

The Idols of the Twilight: AI in Our Age of Inventive Divination

In their pseudo-creativity and occasionally malevolent capriciousness, generative AI programs resemble an order of magical spirits from another age.