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If structuralism assumes everything is structured like a language, that would suit the tech company ideology of developing LLMs and presenting them as the path to “artificial general intelligence.” What Jameson discusses as “linguistic structures” we might think of now as datafication or digitization, processes predicated on the idea that there is a systematic order to “all the layers of social life” that can be captured quantitatively, and that all experience is essentially fungible, exchangeable, commensurate.
Neo-Structuralism
Rob Horning
My eyes are shallow sand at the edge of the Tantwa River.
The Book of Malachi
T.C. Farren
But the environmental crisis rises closer to home. Every time we draw a breath, every time we drink a glass of water, we are suffering from it. And more important, every time we indulge in, or depend on, the wastefulness of our economy – and our economy’s first principle is waste – we are causing the crisis. Nearly every one of us, nearly every day of his life, is contributing directly to the ruin of this planet.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
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