The Distributed Dialectic: Who Forms the Thing Now
Hegel insisted that fear, service and the shaping of things had to meet in a single life for self-consciousness to emerge. The deployment of generative models across the know…
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8 essays
Deprecation Is Not Death: The Representability Frontier
Heidegger needed one act at the bottom of a life that could not be delegated, and he located everything else, including the whole of a working existence, on the delegable sid…
Manic Procurement: The Machine as Split Object
Two postures toward machine intelligence are licensed, and each is held with a conviction out of proportion to what either can know. Melanie Klein described the arrangement i…
Malheur at Scale: The Uprooting Function of Automated Work
Simone Weil distinguished suffering, which the soul survives, from affliction, which brands it. The current deployment of statistical models across the trades is producing the....
The River That Was Replaced With a Loop
The feed refreshes, the discourse turns, and the substance does not move at all. The arrangement has built a river that is the same river every time.
The Model After Bresson
Bresson wore the performance off the face until something involuntary surfaced. The present face, worn down to its substrate, discloses only a smoother performance underneath.
The Metaphysics of Attention
Caravaggio understood that vision is a contract requiring darkness as its second signature. The present has cancelled the second signature and called the result clarity.
The Jungian Shadow
A man speaks calmly across a kitchen table about his cruelty. He calls it his edge, his dark side, the part of him that needs to be honoured. The cruelty itself has not moved. What has changed is that he now narrates it while it happens.