The Exquisite Corpse - A moodboard
It’s hard to write long-form essays without serious, socially-enforced deadlines. The reason my writing group (with Garrett & Yehudis) worked in October, November was because we had shared stakes. We all knew we were publishing on the 1st. Since we were linking to each other, you really can’t miss the train.
As Kristoffer Ørum, artist and self-proclaimed ‘misuser of technology,’ pointed out in a RADAR interview, as LLMs become “very good at drawing things that look like something,” humans have the opportunity to push in the opposite direction, reviving more absurdist and abstract forms of art — much like how the expressionists thrived after the advent... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
There will be dust. There is always dust. By that I mean there is always time, and materiality, and decay. Decomposition and damage are inescapable. There is always the body, with its smears and secretions and messy flaking bits off. There is always waste and it always has to be dealt with, and shipping it out of sight overseas to the developing... See more
Shannon Mattern • Maintenance and Care
“The thing to do when you’re confused,” instructed the shaman, “is to turn to your left and ask advice from your death. An immense amount of pettiness is dropped if your death makes a gesture to you, or if you catch a glimpse of it, or if you just have the feeling that your companion is watching you.”