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Part II—The Libidinal Economy of the Image

Somewhere in the writings of Buddhist nun Pema Chodron (), there is a passage in which she remarks that self-knowledge can arrive like looking in a mirror and finding a gorilla staring back at you. You feel horrible, just the…

Part I – An Aesthetic That Will Not Die

Recently, I was traveling through the upper Midwest (Nebraska, South Dakota) and had the opportunity to meet up with a long-time friend and not-often-enough collaborator, Éireann Lorsung. While we were catching up, the sticky subject of AI-generated imagery came up.…