Unironically this may get at my research (generative monstrosity)
10.03.2026 18:01
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Unironically this may get at my research (generative monstrosity)
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relatedly: you know who would be fucking obsessed with AI and not at all just a doomer about it (though he’d definitely also entertain doomer scenarios)? karl marx. you’d have to beg him to stop posting about AI. he would be monomaniacal about it.
Yes. Fragment on Machines, which is in the Accelerationist Reader as a foundational text. He was the original accelerationist. We don't dismantle the technology built by capital we take it over. In this respect I am also a/n (left) accelerationist
A lot of people really misunderstand how he feels about technology
I want robots to do all the work so I can go on hikes and read books all day
i think robots doing all the work and people doing whatever they want to do would be awesome actually
i think that's the entire point society should be working towards
The assumption that algorithmic art, computer-generated art is new or these considerations of authorship or humanity are new ignore the history of not only computer art but avant garde and postmodern art in general
Considering how culturally indispensable digital technology is today, it is ironic that computer-generated art was attacked when it burst onto the scene in the early 1960s. In fact, no other twentieth-century art form has elicited such a negative and hostile response. When the Machine Made Art examines the cultural and critical response to computer art, or what we refer to today as digital art. Tracing the heated debates between art and science, the societal anxiety over nascent computer technology, and the myths and philosophies surrounding digital computation, Taylor is able to identify the destabilizing forces that shape and eventually fragment the computer art movement.
www.bloomsbury.com/us/when-the-...
Manfred Mohr using a plotter to algorithmically generate abstract art on the SIXTIES www.emohr.com
The world is training data for humans
How does this square with mechanically reproduced art? Found art?
Kenneth Goldsmith transcribing an entire issue of the New York Times and publishing it as a book?
So much avant garde art was explicitly about removing the human from the equation
it is tragic that the fundamentals of creativity and the history of art have become… “an angle”
there’s LOTS to critique and be concerned about with AI, but this particular line of critique is a deadend and won’t help anyone — it definitely won’t help artists or the arts
“if it couldn’t have existed without training data, it isn’t creating anything at all”
this is a fundamental misunderstanding of creativity and the creative process… nothing is created “ex nihilo”, everything comes from something else, and that’s just as true for humans as it is for AI
These people exist. I'm literally at a cultural AI conference at NYU right now as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
My two posts on AI in academia provoked a lot of people this week, and some of it was unnecessary. I'm sorry for the tone and provocation. But I stand by the substance.
Here are all my 20 theses. I'd genuinely like to know which ones folks *empirically* disagree or agree with.
I’ll prolly never get tenure so fuck it AI is revolutionary tech and the discourses around it is maximally cursed. I saw one study at SPSP that showed how students are viewed as lacking merit for using AI even when they are allowed to and declare using it. It’s reasonable to lie right now.
Extremely loud drill being used right outside the window of a room during a conference is a new experience for me
no joke when I first moved to NYC someone recommended I read 48 rules of power and I couldn't get more than a few pages in before getting so phenomenally depressed it made me question whether I even wanted to live in the city of behaving that way was what it took to be successful there
EMANCIPATORY POLITICS MUST ALWAYS DESTROY THE APPEARANCE OF A 'NATURAL ORDER, MUST REVEAL WHAT IS PRESENTED AS NECESSARY AND INEVITABLE TO BE A MERE CONTINGENCY, JUST AS IT MUST MAKE WHAT WAS PREVIOUSLY DEEMED TO BE IMPOSSIBLE SEEM ATTAINABLE. MARK FISHER (1968-2017)
Keeping in mind the corruption of not only Silicon Valley, but capitalism in general, protecting consensus reality is exactly the problem. We shouldn't be trying to be maintaining it we should be trying to dismantle it.
Lol
Taking advantage of fake spring to walk around and listen to the Albini version of In On the Killtaker. Still figuring out what I think but damn what a gift in the midst of so much horror fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...
I would say my approach is very much: how can latent space be considered a deteretorialized / ing space and what practices can be applied to resist capitalist remediation and how does hallucination signal a move beyond the limits of the conventional culture embedded in training data
Okay now that I've calmed down a bit I just want to say how excited I am to see this, as someone who is taking a Deleuzian / CCRU approach to generative AI.
Was just discussing in the Urbanomic discord about how it in some ways "operationalizes" this strain of French theory
huge congratulations to jay for everything she built here over the past few years. was an amazing ride to be a part of and i’m super excited to see where things continue from here not just for bluesky but for her as well!!
What the
Look, I was a barista for fifteen years and yes, I hated to make certain drinks, but to say they are an insult to other customers in line is obscene.
If you want to talk communal norms, shift your focus on to the workers who are very likely being underpaid to deal with your bullshit
they are both literally perfect
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