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He’s staring at the seasons, the year’s pendulum, the burst of spring and the enfolding of fall, the beat of a two-four song recorded here, in a medium that the piece itself created.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
But for generative models there are no remainders. They can’t feel their way toward a meaning. They can’t have aesthetic ideas or make artworks in the sense that Bernstein means, so they can’t redistribute artistic capability. They don’t create works that figure freedom, or exemplify, in Bernstein’s words, “people making sense in ways that follow no existing rules of sense-making.” They don’t elude reification or hold out utopian promise that something can exceed exchange value.
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
Without fail, students describe the crafting of their college admission essays as the decisive moment when their private sense of self was subsumed by the imperative to create a consumable, public-facing identity.
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