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How do you use AI to push your creativity forward, and what sort of role does it play in your practice?

Isabella Lalonde: I don’t use AI for any of my art, but I do use ChatGPT, and that’s super helpful. I would say the way I use AI is more manual than creative, which is also a huge part of learning a craft. For example, I’m working on a guided... See more

As an artist, what’s your relationship with technology like?

Isabella Lalonde: It’s pretty complicated, I would say. Technology is such an overarching term, because it can be anything from what you need to create a certain specific type of craft, like using Photoshop or Adobe programmes to animate things, something like welding technology, or things... See more

The business model of most consumer technology is to identify some thick desire, find the part of it that produces a neurological reward, and then deliver that reward without the rest of the package

The thin desire reproduces itself without remainder.

The thick desire transforms its host.

A thick desire is one that changes you in the process of pursuing it.

A thin desire is one that doesn't.

I don't care how good AI gets, it will never compare with the feeling you get listening to an enormous voice in a tiny room.

Psychotechnology is the deep ideas, mental models, and invisible structures that quietly shape how culture actually moves.