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As I waited in the Bruguera line, I took a picture of it and texted it to a friend, with a caption: “Why am I here?” But in a sense, that message was its own answer. Waiting in lines, jostling in the crowd — the audience that can’t afford the exclusivity and elitism in art appreciation can enjoy instead the contradiction at the heart of social media: networked individualism, being alone not in the crowd but through it. The museum should now be understood in these terms — not a place to look, or to feel, or to learn, but a place to wait until a sense of your own significance closes in on you.
The Price of Shares
Rob Horning
The other kids have stopped looking. One by one, they’ve drifted out of the neighborhood of green things into the louder, flashier party of other people.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
But using generative AI to automate information retrieval doesn’t merely lead to inaccurate information production; it also further curtails human agency in the process and prevents the sorts of social negotiations that determine how information is organized. Instead models organize information according to “discovered” norms within data sets that correspond to no particular rule or intention but instead enforce a higher-order rule that the entities that control the data sets necessarily control how information is ordered and accessed.
The Blackbird Must Be Flying
Substack
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