Ever Not Quite

Our Bots, Our Selves

Algorithmic re-enchantment and the rise of a ‘secondary porosity’

Aug 11 • Patrick Jordan Anderson

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June 2026

Acquainted with the Night

A new piece in The Republic of Letters

Jun 16 • Patrick Jordan Anderson

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April 2026

Reveries of the Solitary Author

AI writing tutors mean you'll never have to write alone again

Apr 17 • Patrick Jordan Anderson

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March 2026

A Portrait of the Artist as an LLM

Writing after the death of the (human) author

Mar 20 • Patrick Jordan Anderson

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January 2026

If Your Attention Isn’t a Resource, What Is It?

The “attention economy” offers the wrong definition

Jan 20 • Patrick Jordan Anderson

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December 2025

Teaching Silicon to Talk

Reading Martin Buber’s classic work on dialogue in the age of the chatbot

Dec 29, 2025 • Patrick Jordan Anderson

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You Must Change Your Life

Marginalia, Vol. 2: Attention and the examined life

Dec 23, 2025 • Patrick Jordan Anderson

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November 2025

Technology Is Already ‘Out of Control’

Yudkowsky’s Demon and the autonomy of technique

Nov 28, 2025 • Patrick Jordan Anderson

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Doomer Optimism

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

Nov 24, 2025 • Patrick Jordan Anderson

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October 2025

Welcome to the Machine

Modernity has its own monsters

Oct 28, 2025 • Patrick Jordan Anderson

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September 2025

The Use of the Useless

Zhuangzi on the tyranny of utility

Sep 23, 2025 • Patrick Jordan Anderson

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May 2025

And Death Shall Have No Dominion

Transhumanism and the Denial of Death

May 31, 2025 • Patrick Jordan Anderson

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