Writing topicCreative Labor and Authorship
Authorship, agency, selfhood, and cultural production when media and machines become collaborators.
Everybody's Smart
3 postsSilence is Golden: Field Notes on a classroom
I had two hours with a group at the very beginning of their learning careers — students who had chosen to study human-computer interaction, which means they had already decided, at some leve
Everybody's smart. Now what? Professional upskilling after AI
# The anxiety of 'what will I do now?'
Can a day without answers tell you how your work is about to change?
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Essays
13 postsPalimpsest self, parasocial media
Reality television, Instagram, and TikTok are usually read through Foucault. They make more sense through Genette and Han. The script is older than the performer, the capital is uncapped, an
The Artist’s Body
Barthes declared the author dead in 1967, and generative AI has made the diagnosis literal. His argument was that a text is not the expression of a singular consciousness but a tissue of quo
Appropriation is Not New: The Eternal Return of the Vanguard
We need to understand how novelty works in culture, so that we calm down about AI homogenization. The anxiety of derivative work and the role of the original artist creativity have not chang
Creatives and AI: A New Economy of Originality
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University degrees will need a radical reshape. Here are four new Bachelor's Degree programs that we may need after AI
The infamous, terrifying Anthropic Economic Index, March 2026.
Will AI cinema ever stick?
Paul Schrader
The Mars exit strategy
Martin Heidegger warned that modern technology no longer allows us to simply “harness the wind” in a passive or attuned manner. Rather than engaging nature as something that gives, technolog
Cognitive Redistribution: Rethinking Agency and Creativity in the Age of AI
Across every knowledge-intensive field, a seismic but under-theorized shift is underway: cognitive labour is no longer concentrated inside the human mind but redistributed across human–machi
Essays: the only thing AI cannot write
I do my best to write essays, not posts.
Heidegger: the most powerful definition of technology
When we talk about technology, we tend to think of tools. A hammer, a car, a phone—objects that help us do something faster or better. In this everyday sense, technology is an
The Red Zone Design Canvas: How AI Slop Helps to Think Five Minutes Into the Future
Let’s start with an example that is alarming everyone: the enormous wave of irrelevant or harmful content created by AI.
Creative Skepticism: Why the Skeptics of AI Might Be Fighting the Wrong Battle
In most companies, the most forward-thinking people are told to “push back.” This is often a designer’s cultural role: to question the status quo, to fight inertia. That instinct now runs in
Problems and Possibilities in co-writing with AI
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