Saved by Keely Adler
My Grandmother Glitches the Machine
This is one of the many reasons why I find the current conversation about so-called generative AI so immensely frustrating: there’s all this hype about making everything easier and faster, about how we can eliminate all the work involved in the making of words and images. But no one arguing for this seems to have asked what’s left when the work is ... See more
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
our machines often work only to the degree that we learn to conform to their patterns. Their magic depends upon the willing suspension of full humanity.
Substack • LaMDA, Lemoine, and the Allures of Digital Re-enchantment
Keely Adler added
More recently, similar games of language and form were generated by the “Vibe Shift,” by which I mean the strange ways of writing that appeared in 2021 in places such as Remilia Corporation’s “I long for Network Spirituality” chatroom; Instagram “cellectuals” accounts, which adopt other people’s personae; schizo-affect Substack poetry blogs; Honor ... See more
Matter
alexi gunner added
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit – all these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided.... See more
It’s the sound of failure: so much of modern art is the sound of things going out of cont
Brian Eno • The sound of failure
Elena added
As with the Mechanical Turk, the human persists within the machine
— Filterworld, Kyle Chayka
Agalia Tan added
Pemmaraju’s story urges us to consider the occasional senses of temporal dislocation that we all experience from time to time—instances of timecode drift within our consciousness, small insurgencies of slave clocks against a tyrannical master clock.
Raqs Media Collective • Planktons in the Sea: A Few Questions Regarding the Qualities of Time - Journal #27 September 2011 - e-flux
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