Technocomplex

“This is a test of the Emergency Handwriting System”

Handwriting (you know, using hands?) enriches human expression. A side-effect of a New Year's resolution....

Jul 22 • 

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March 2025

Book review: The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood

James Boyle claims that the "line" separating humans from things is going to be redrawn.

Mar 28 • 

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February 2025

Making people from things

Make human portraits from a pile of vegetables...or tradesman's tools...or car and motorcycle parts. A short history of things and humans in art.

Feb 27 • 

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An unsent letter to Senator Tillis

There's a tradition of people writing "unsent letters." With this post I take part in it, kinda. Because I'm sending it to you and not the addressee, I…

Feb 9 • 

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Book review: John Warner's More Than Words: How to Think about Writing in the Age of AI

"The Biblioracle" uses AI to guide us back to solid ground on writing and reading, revealing he's a conservative at heart. An enjoyable and lively book.

Feb 3 • 

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December 2024

O Magnum Mysterium

In the glitz and the lights and the noise, it’s easy to think the light is the point. But the light illumines the darkest time of year.

Dec 22, 2024 • 

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To splash into the western deep

Sonnets. "when the Pleiades flee mighty Orion / and plunge into the misty deep" and a youthful adventure with Maia

Dec 17, 2024 • 

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Catch up and a recipe for baking joy and comfort

Short: a delicious recipe for delightful "little breads." The usual collection of links related to previous posts.

Dec 9, 2024 • 

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November 2024

Needs a bit more of The Onion, I think...

A surprise acquisition. A hilarious court brief. Parody might come in very handy in the coming years.

Nov 18, 2024 • 

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October 2024

Four photographs and their "truths"

Photos from the nineteenth century and from 2023 helped my fall seminar students explore truth, the fake, and fiction. And complex relationships with…

Oct 27, 2024 • 

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Catch up

AI voices. Barbie and Tanner. Google follows Apple's coredump. Wendell's birthday. Silence is golden and holy.

Oct 12, 2024 • 

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Careful language, machine utterance

Tricked by AIs, I begin to consider a human strength that doesn't feel as unique as it once was.

Oct 5, 2024 • 

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