Ever Not Quite

Technology Is Already ‘Out of Control’

Yudkowsky’s Demon and the autonomy of technique

Nov 28 • 

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Doomer Optimism

Marginalia, Vol. 1: A limited series for the end of the year

Nov 24 • 

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October 2025

Welcome to the Machine

Modernity has its own monsters

Oct 28 • 

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September 2025

The Use of the Useless

Zhuangzi on the tyranny of utility

Sep 23 • 

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May 2025

And Death Shall Have No Dominion

Transhumanism and the Denial of Death

May 31 • 

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March 2025

The Anthropological Aura

There really is something no machine could ever replicate

Mar 28 • 

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Without Regard For Persons

How industry is talking about the AI rollout

Mar 10 • 

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January 2025

Building in the Ruins

On what comes after techno-optimism

Jan 28 • 

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November 2024

Crisis and Revelation

“Things Aren’t Getting Worse. The Truth is Just Being Revealed.”

Nov 1, 2024 • 

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October 2024

Snapshots: Quotations about Photography

“Thus the mind has gone where vision pointed.” Hans Jonas

Oct 12, 2024 • 

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Strange Shadows [Part II]

Two centuries of photography have prepared the way for algorithmically-generated images. Now the image-world is becoming a Museum of Babel.

Oct 5, 2024 • 

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September 2024

Strange Shadows [Part I]

Two centuries of photography have prepared the way for algorithmically-generated images. Now the image-world is becoming a Museum of Babel.

Sep 27, 2024 • 

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