https://conten.to/tags/literature/ Recent content in Literature on conten.to Hugo en-us Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/23/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/23/ A sequel to Enlightenment and Madness. José Arcadio Buendía wasn't mad — he was trapped in a culture without a category for his state. We have categories now. ADHD, bipolar, schizotypy, the DSM. The medication replaces the rope. Whether that's progress is harder to answer than it looks. https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/22/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/22/ Rereading García Márquez with Remedios la Bella as the Buddha of Macondo and José Arcadio Buendía as the chestnut-tree madman — two faces of the same transcendence that modern life has no room for. With a detour through Chögyam Trungpa's crazy wisdom and Nietzsche's Zarathustra. https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/10/ Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/10/ Exploring the parallels between José Arcadio Buendía's dismissal of a flying carpet and the promises and limitations of modern AI, particularly large language models (LLMs). https://conten.to/posts/2024/10/30/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2024/10/30/ [TODO]