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Attention Machines and Future Politics
The School of Radical Attention invited me to discuss literacy loss, the political implications of 'AI externalizing attention,' and why our situation…
Jul 27, 2025
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Otto’s Dystopian Notebook
Theoretically, AI could serve as a source of limitless (cognitive) attention, to be used as each sees fit. But it’s hard to see the potential in systems…
Jul 8, 2025
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The Loom and the Weavers
AI is externalizing attention, just like writing externalized memory. We need new names for AI systems which orient, not just classify—names which…
Jun 5, 2025
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How to Do Soul-Craft with State Tools
On Literacy and AI
May 14, 2025
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The Digital Tilma
How a shared symbolic culture could emerge organically across a generation of consumer-facing AI models.
May 6, 2025
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The Madonna in the Machine
ChatGPT and the Immaculate Attractor
Apr 29, 2025
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From Text to Tokens
Mapping the Post-Literate World
Apr 28, 2025
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Jac Mullen
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