AI as Self-Erasure
Liberal public culture is a culture of polite separation.
When the Mind’s Eye Is Blind
I have a very hard time believing that most people can see things.
Creativity in the Age of Crush
Posted on May 30, 2024
Image: YouTube screenshots from Apple’s “Crush” ad [left] and Samsung’s “Uncrush” ad [right].
Through the Rent, Eternity Enters
Posted on May 22, 2024
Image: THR illustration; clockwise from top: T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Richard Wilbur, Osip Mandelstam, George Washington Carver, Norman MacCaig, Joy Harjo.
You read a poem and it awakens you to something that you already knew.
How to Survive and Thrive in the AI Apocalypse
The ironic result of the triumph of the machine may be the creation of an ecosystem in which supra-rational gnostic appeals flourish.
Maybe Even Build a Boat
John Ruskin said, “Lay a brick level in its mortar, or take a straight shaving from a plank, and you’ll have learned a multitude of things that the words of man can never tell.”