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European world expansion, accompanied as it was by shameless defense of extermination, created habits of thought and political precedents that made way for new outrages, finally culminating in the most horrendous of them all: the Holocaust.”21 And one of the hardest habits of thought to shake is the reflex to look away, to not see what is in front of us, and to not know what we know.
Generative models instead negate all those conceptions. They depend on the premises that there are no “new and original meanings;” that all meaning is already determined and does in fact stem from existing rules, rules that are not intractable but can be systematically extracted from data; that everything can be exchanged into everything else at a higher level of abstraction; that no moment is irreducible or “nonidentical,” to use one of Adorno’s terms.
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
He drummed mainly in Kele, a language of the Bantu family in what is now eastern Zaire.
The Information
James Gleick
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