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In algorithmic culture, the archives will be the source of power. They will also be prisons. Use ChatGPT for a bit and you’ll see the deal it invisibly offers: The machine allows you to write whatever you like, instantly, freely, with no effort, just so long as it’s like everything that has come before.

Welcome to the Big Blur

theatlantic.com

So we concentrated, and opened our minds, and felt around for something else, for something more. We were the original never-satisfieds.

Only Forward

Michael Marshall Smith

Bourne’s damaged memory echoes the postmodern nostalgia mode as described by Fredric Jameson, in which contemporary or even futuristic reference at the level of content obscure a reliance on established or antiquated models at the level of form.

Capitalist Realism

Mark Fisher

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