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The result is that songs about the land, animals and plants contain the sounds of those things directly too: the call of the raven, the cry of the wolf, the wind in the forest, or the running of the sea. When sung in this way, the joik is an expression of the land itself: the world singing through the singer.
Ways of Being
James Bridle
The disaster of history is the incessant pacification of all that resists. In fact, we have no interest in producing something that would only be a new program to police straying bodies, proliferate “proper” images of thought, or peddle updated categories of surveillable subjects. Philosophy, as we understand it, is the conceptual proliferation of theoretical weapons aimed at the order of things. Anything else is mere collaboration.
And, in the second case, that by interacting with chatty generative AI models, [10](https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/357829899/#page-9-0) people's own delusions beliefs and ideas can not only be affirmed by AI but can more substantially take root and grow through human-AI co-construction.
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