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In this recent post, Drew Austin proposes that the prefix micro- could be considered “the most appropriate descriptor of post-2020 digital culture,” to…
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An incredible haul of human muttering
An “author’s note” at the end of Don DeLillo’s Libra reads: “Any novel about a major unresolved event would aspire to fill some of the blank spaces in…
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Floating down the Love Canal
I’m not sure that there is much of a need for “slop” as a special term for AI-generated content. We already have “content.” Is there material we are…
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Jackass theme song
In this review of the 1977 collection Aesthetics and Politics, which gathers texts by Adorno, Lukács, Benjamin, Block, and Brecht from the 1930s, Terry…
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June 2024

Ordinary unhappiness
“Self-sabotage takes many forms,” Eliane Glaser writes in this essay for Aeon. “Self- sabotage is about deferring our stated goals and — when we are…
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Certain emotions uttered at random intervals
Real photos
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O flesh, how art thou fishified
Emotion canceling
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Dialectic of simulation
A recent 404 Media piece by Emanuel Maiberg observed that image searches on Google now return lots of generated images rather than archival results — an…
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Born sloppy
There has been a push recently to christen unwanted generative content as “slop”: This New York Times piece by Benjamin Hoffman, for example, defines…
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More of the same
Style transfer
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I have seen the big mountain
I first heard “The Big Music” when I was teenager, which is probably the only time I would have been receptive to it. If you don’t know it, it’s an…
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May 2024

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