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My interest is not in the question of whether or not they needed the road, but in the fact that the road was then, and is now, the most characteristic form of their relation to the country.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
Formal innovation stalls because the culture industry can’t accommodate it, and the tech industry has instead made datafication (seeing the world one-dimensionally as “content”) very profitable. Generative AI serves that project as well; it flattens style into “style transfers,” parodic imitations that presume that any form and any content can arbitrarily be joined together in bogus travesties of aesthetic unity.
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Natural-language processing provides, like all the other technologies, the humbling at the end of empowerment, the condition of lonely apes with fancy tools.
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