Posted inLiving Technology
Wendell Berry on scale and limits
"No doubt there always will be some people willing to do anything at all that is economically or technologically possible..."
Posted inBook Review History Technology
Beauty and “no-thingness”
A meditation on beauty and a book review of Patrick Bringley's All the Beauty in the World. Beauty could save us from AI.
Posted inHistory Technology
The research paper is dead. Research record and provenance, too?
When it comes to AI, just saying no isn't an option anymore.…
Posted inCommentary Poetry Technology
Noise, art, and AI. A musician considers the function of art
Marc Ribot responds to a question on whether AI can create. So,…
Posted inTechnology
Two kinds of beauty. Brief excerpt from The Score
"Object beauty" and "process beauty": brief excerpt from C. Thi Nguyen's The Score
Posted inLiving Poetry Technology
Fiat ars, pereat mundus
Can one use art in times when it feels so useless? Should one do art at all?
Posted inHistory Living Technology
Today, typewriters are for art
Your grandfather's typewriter is coming back as a tool for creating art.
Posted inCommentary Technology
Sense and GPT-ability
"It’s the lack of this tactile sensation, this palpability, that seems to me an awful prospect in the automatic summoning of sentences, rather than the elimination of effort per se."
Posted inAutomobiles History Living
Deep influence of the asphalt below us
Four meditations on roads, highways, and ancient paths
Posted inHistory Living Technology
“Creativity is just deviance put to good use”
Maybe everything is slipping to boring sameness?