Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
The potential for exploitation of creative content and ideas by corporate overreach is a significant concern.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
The unabated “creative destruction” of one kind of capital after another has only further increased the wealth of a few and done nothing to emancipate the overall collective creative spirit, which has remained stagnant. Today, almost every artistic effort inevitably (perhaps unknowingly) reinscribes the values of the ruling capitalist class.
GD Dess • Cultural Dopes
public interest software.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
While this shift has lowered many cultural barriers to entry, since anyone can make their work public online, it has also resulted in a kind of tyranny of real-time data.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
"Live Players"
An exploration of cultural power dynamics, the decline of traditional gatekeepers, and the impact of technology on our interconnected world and individual agency.
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1985 essay “A Cyborg Manifesto,” which predicted, with optimism, a looming world of monstrous machine-human hybrids in which we take “pleasure in the confusion of boundaries”—post-gender, post-capitalism, post-biology. With that reference point, it hit me: We are the Labubus, grinning ecstatically amid the wreckage of our rapidly dismantling,
... See moreAs we shoot hoops he says: you can’t just tell your students they can’t use chatGPT, you have to show them why the fantasy that AI will develop free will (the supposed domain of the human) rather than being governed by the logic of the assembly line is a perfect inversion of our world, where humans and our social relations are already bound by the... See more