sari

disturbed by the narrative of technological inevitability — of unstoppable advancement toward a world of human obsolescence — that removes the human responsibility to think critically about how technologies are built and introduced into society

honestly, if your work/taste/idea is solid, i don’t give a shit if you used ai. in fact, if you’re not leveraging it, it would likely be a huge red flag. why would you voluntarily handicap yourself?

“So thinking is prior to language. What language contributes is to firm up certain particular ways of seeing the world and give fixity to them. This has its good side, and its bad. It aids consistency of reference over time and space. But it can also exert a restrictive force on what and how we think. It represents a more fixed version of the world... See more

“Emotion is inseparable from the body in which it is felt, and emotion is also the basis for our engagement with the world.”

“By paying a certain kind of attention, you can humanise or dehumanise, cherish or strip of all value. By a kind of alienating, fragmenting and focal attention, you can reduce humanity – or art, sex, humour, or religion – to nothing. You can so alienate yourself from a poem that you stop seeing the poem at all, and instead come to see in its place ... See more

“Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and brutalise; words depersonalise; words make the uncommon common.”