Severin Matusek

If immersive media prefigured the rise of the neoliberal world order, network media prefigured its collapse.

As Bogost himself puts it in a 2024 update on the state of social media: the rise of Bluesky “is a relapse, not a fix”.

Zines are anarchist content-sharing. AI is opposite.

Emmanuel Macron, J.D. Vance and Berlin artist collectives may seem like unlikely allies, but they all agree that Europe’s “regulate first, build later (maybe)” approach to AI is not working.

To read these writers writing about AI writing is to witness, almost in real time, intellectual laborers assimilating a threat to their own existence.

But what we’re not talking about, what we’re not worrying about nearly enough, is the other side of the coin. If we’re running at speed at this, if we’re pushing everyone to use AI because we think it’s some sort of panacea to every business challenge we have, what about atrophy? What about the erosion of expertise, of knowledge, of critical... See more

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