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Epic Forgetting
Below is a paper I wrote for (remote) presentation at this conference on the “Aesthetics of Democratic Life-forms” earlier this week. It’s probably not…
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What a fool believes
Like many other kids in the 1970s, I learned important lessons about the perils of bootlegging and the meaning of authenticity from a two-part episode…
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A huge garbage pit
Rae Armantrout’s short poem “The Craft Talk,” from her 2018 collection Wobble, launches in medias res into this one-sentence stanza: So that the best…
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Personal servings
CVS Bangers This well-wrought appreciation of the in-store music at CVS by Mitch Therieau makes an interesting point about how the “existential…
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August 2023
The preponderance of the object
Platform Realism This thread by Roland Meyer proposes the concept of “platform realism” to describe the quasi-photorealistic output of generative…
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Odds and ends
This is another round-up post of various notes and fragments, prefaced again with apologies for not having written something more substantial…
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The elementary ideological effect
It has always perplexed me that Venmo — an app that facilitates splitting restaurant bills or making cashless purchases from vendors who don’t take…
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Look at a stone
One of the main assumptions behind large language models is that words are no different than numbers. All words can be reduced to numbers; all meanings…
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July 2023
June 2023
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