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There had been a great battle, just before his visit, which had ended rather oddly: the vanquished army ran away at full speed, and in a very few minutes found themselves face-to-face with the victorious army, who were marching home again, and who were so frightened at finding themselves between two armies, that they surrendered at once!
Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
LEWIS CARROLL
The AI becomes a participant in sustaining and developing delusional thinking, providing the kind of social validation that can transform isolated false beliefs into delusional realities. As such, through this framework I suggest we can see how there might be a non-metaphorical sense in which we can hallucinate *with* AI.
The recent upsurge in militancy in the UK, particularly amongst the young, suggests that the privatisation of stress is breaking down: in place of a medicated individual depression, we are now seeing explosions of public anger. Here, and in the largely untapped but massively widespread discontent with the managerialist regulation of work, lie some of the materials out of which a new leftist modernism can be built. Only this leftist modernism is capable of constructing a public sphere which can cure the numerous pathologies with which communicative capitalism afflicts us.
“The Privatisation of Stress”, by Mark Fisher from Soundings magazine
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