The Glitch Issue
Everyone understands what a glitch is, and yet there is no conclusive origin for the word. A predictable malfunction in a mechanical device is called a “bug.” A glitch is an extraordinary convergence of whimsical and terrible.
Atlas of Emotion
In the 21st century, the focus shifted away from appealing subliminally to people’s desires and more overtly toward affectively appealing to people’s emotions. Terror has replaced pleasure as the lever of Western power.
To Each a Zone: notes on the political potential of curation
When artistic taste exceeds the importance of art itself, we should be on high alert for a wholesale bankruptcy of aesthetic imagination — a system on the brink of collapse.
Shook Ones, Pt. II
For the generation 25 years old and younger, a world in which voluntary submission to some measure of authoritarian control simply never existed. And so, there is no debate around the merits of control society. It just is.
A Secret Chord: notes on “Hallelujah” and human harmony
We must treat A.I. models as simulations of ourselves — who else? — and in doing so, analyze them as we would any other subject.
How You Remind Me
Those who cannot remember history, as the adage goes, are condemned to repeat it. But no repetition is an exact duplicate. Duration always introduces surplus deviations. The commemoration of history continually revises it.
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