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The problem with generative AI, from this perspective, is that it can be understood as inviting self-reflection: It asks you what you want, so it forces you into inauthenticity, makes you calculating and unspontaneous. It intensifies the pressure to want the right things, to present oneself better, to produce more competitive media with the model’s assistance. By putting more tools in people’s hands to deliberately make strategic images, AI models sharpen Polaroid’s opportunity to sell its commodified version of “reality” as spontaneous and unreflective.
The Egg of Experience
Rob Horning
The long, dark night of the end of history has to be grasped as an enormous opportunity. The very oppressive pervasiveness of capitalist realism means that even glimmers of alternative political and economic possibilities can have a disproportionately great effect. The tiniest event can tear a hole in the grey curtain of reaction which has marked the horizons of possibility under capitalist realism. From a situation in which nothing can happen, suddenly anything is possible again.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
It’s in that way that New Zealand really is different. Maybe Kiwis don’t fully understand the scale of their success, and their new role as global leaders. Or maybe, having re-elected Ardern, they do. Either way, what they have achieved is genuinely remarkable, not to be understated, in that very Kiwi way. It is a profoundly special and meaningful thing for a nation to prosper by cooperating with a leader who is a young woman and a social democrat in an age of collapse driven by the furious rise of global strongman politics.
The New Leaders of the 21st Century
umair haque
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