Summer Lightning

Knowledge Chronotopes

AI has no default sense of tempo, but neither does common law or religious texts

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Devices For The Crafty

Looking at 19th century distinctions between gambling and speculative investment

Dec 5 • 

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Metabolizing Monsters

Online swarms and social web as unprocessed monsters

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November 2025

Long Goodbye

Twentieth century imagery of cars

Nov 22 • 

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Why Does AI Development Look Like 1980s Software Planning?

Conway's Law and Coase theorem applied to AI

Nov 16 • 

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Social Web to Royal Machine

Metaphors for LLMs and meatspace as anti-environments

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October 2025

Cozyweb Animals

Cozyweb as collective self-regulation in the permaweird

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Life is a Room with a TV

Star Trek as paracosmal living room

Oct 27 • 

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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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Walking The AI Ecology

Locating care in working with LLMs

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Archival Time

Looking at LLMs through Bakhtin's notion of carnival time

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