I encountered a proposition that form and style are the aspects of writing that an LLM cannot mimic, thus human writers may start innovating on form as a way to compete in an oversaturated writing market (and demonstrate their humanity). But that got me thinking beyond the style and structure of writing (e.g. listicle, poem, […]

Some of the most useful books and articles I read to think about digital aura. ⭐ = most useful for the question The ur-text ⭐ The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin (1936) — my notes Booklist Presented in reverse chronological order. Aura, art, and media studies Ways of […]

“All political, historical and cultural information is received in the same – at once anodyne and miraculous – form of the news item. It is entirely actualized — i.e. dramatized in the spectacular mode — and entirely deactualized — i.e. distanced by the communication medium and reduced to signs.” — Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society […]

When the New is Worse Than the Old by Daniel A. Kaufman “For the average person who knows nothing about a subject, a well-curated library is far superior to internet searches and especially AI, which is nothing but an aggregating tool that routinely gets basic things wrong. […] The sheer amount of what is available […]