Memes and Flames: The Aesthetics of the Gen Z Uprising

“The youth of Morocco carries the message of a nation,” reads an open letter from the Gen Z 212 movement Continue reading →

Regimes of Visibility: Gerhard Richter at the De Young Museum

When some years ago the De Young Museum in San Francisco was preparing to reopen in a new building, the Continue reading →

Taylor Swift Does Not Exist: In Memoriam Achim Szepanski

The original version of this essay was published as the afterword to the new edition of Achim Szepanski’s (1957–2024) In Continue reading →

Oceanic Logic: On Vagueness and Mass Nouns

Vagueness and mass nouns have been unconquerable land for the logic founded by Aristotle, mathematized by Boole, and developed by Continue reading →

Psychedelic Teleology: Would Widespread Psychedelic Use Improve Society?

This is a modified excerpt from Sam Woolfe’s new book, Altered Perspectives: Critical Essays on Psychedelic Consciousness (2024, Iff Books). Continue reading →

From Plato to the Moving Image: Notes on Lynchian Ethics

“The idea is the whole thing. If you stay true to the idea, it tells you everything you need to Continue reading →

Future Reloaded: An Interview with Matt Bluemink and Alessandro Sbordoni

XX121 is a large language model developed in 2021 by a team of researchers at Miskatonic University led by Julie Continue reading →

Self-Tracking: Why We Love Seeing Ourselves in Data

‘Listen to your body: all you have to do is wear it’ This is the promise of the FitBit Inspire Continue reading →