Summer Lightning

Prophetic Soft Technologies

Prediction markets as media that blunts the loss of narrative.

Oct 16 • 

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September 2025

Revenge of the Bicameral Mind

Julian Jaynes and the new voice of god

Sep 26 • 

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2

Walking The AI Ecology

Locating care in working with LLMs

Sep 11 • 

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5

Archival Time

Looking at LLMs through Bakhtin's notion of carnival time

Sep 7 • 

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13

Minimum Viable Reality

Gambling in simulated realities as an extension of culture

Sep 5 • 

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19

Anarcho-Capitalist Kurosawa Summer

Kurosawa's influences and an LLM analogy

Sep 1 • 

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3

August 2025

Scent of Media

Technology as tertiary memory and 4K restorations.

Aug 24 • 

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3

Cosmotechnics in the Skies

Boeing, Airbus and COMAC viewed as cosmologies

Aug 18 • 

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2

The Real Thing

Wine bars and other simulations of American cosmopolitanism

Aug 8 • 

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5

Opposite of a Great Truth

Giant, miniatures and opposite truths in Mexico City

Aug 3 • 

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9

2

July 2025

Flash Flood Alley

Monumentality and memories of disasters

Jul 17 • 

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1

June 2025

Scribes of a Small God

Origins of authorship and speculation on where it might go

Jun 9 • 

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1