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Experience of time in digitally-mediated environments
In Mark Fisher’s notorious 2014 lecture, “The Slow Cancellation of the Future,” the writer discusses a technology-led temporal pathology in which time, both historically and phenomenologically, is suppressed by “urgencies” and “communicative capitalism.” More simply, Fisher points to the fact that with the ease of accessing content online, timelines become blended together beyond distinction.
AI guardrails and the sidewalks we forgot
If sidewalks indicate walkable cities and spaces that encourage community, exploration, and collective presence, why shouldn’t the legal infrastructure surrounding AI offer similar pathways?
Outside our time
“The hallmark of the modern mind is that it loves to wander from its subject.” This fatal flaw of “wandering,” the human desire to play hide and seek with our own ideas, is not one of fiction.