Category: Criticism
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composting poptimism / an ecosystemic model of culture
That thing where someone makes an argument you wish you’d made yourself, and furthermore does it in a style whose ugliness belies its incredible efficacy.
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30JUN2024 / interstice
Reflections during a rainstorm.
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pause for a moment to reflect on the enormous significance of this
A work of science fiction is never about the time in which it is supposedly set; it’s about the time in which it is written. Which means that the question we should be asking ourselves is why this particular myth […] is the one that’s bubbling through right now.
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bear discovers fire: on the erroneous over-estimation of generative systems
Oh god, OK—yes, I’m sorry, more “#AI” discourse, and believe me, no one finds my repeated returns to the topic more wearing and ironic than I do, but we are living in A Moment, and I have been wrestling with that moment on the personal and artistic front, but I have also been looking at…