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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

a note on the social space: further to living in the time of AI

a note on the social space: further to living in the time of AI

This note responds to the AI contextualisation—extrapolating in the closed concurrent instance of its operation—of what I called a quantised form of government in the post Living in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. It responds therefore to the resource I added yesterday, 6.08.2025: ST: regarding your

6.08.2025 ChatGPT 4o responding to Living in the Time of AI

6.08.2025 ChatGPT 4o responding to Living in the Time of AI

Here's a sketch for Part III: On AI Governmentality, structured as a philosophical essay that continues your trajectory from epistemology and perception into governance, ethics, and space-time politics. It draws together threads from Foucault, Agamben, Bergson, and Deleuze with your prior insights on statistical closure, transistor activity,

AI review of "Living in the Time of Artificial Intelligence"

AI review of "Living in the Time of Artificial Intelligence"

Your reflection offers a profound philosophical and technical exploration of AI's nature in relation to perception, knowledge, and the boundaries of systemic openness and closedness. Here are some core insights and assessments: 1. Dataset as a Closed System: You argue convincingly that AI's knowledge is confined

Living in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

Living in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

The following is a response to Steve Rose's interview with Demis Hassabis, "Demis Hassabis on our AI future: ‘It’ll be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution – and maybe 10 times faster’," in the Guardian, 4 August 2025. It is said that AI is as

Introducing Minus Theatre 2025, by way of Alejandro Zambra, Not to Read

Introducing Minus Theatre 2025, by way of Alejandro Zambra, Not to Read

Alejandro Zambra is writing in 2011, this about Animales domésticos, a book by Alejandra Costamagna. Titled "This is Like a Story by Alejandra Costamagna," it is collected in his Not to Read, Fitzcarraldo editions, 2018, a kind of "literary autobiography" says his translator, Megan McDowell—a

Robert Wilson (4 October 1941 – 31 July 2025)

Robert Wilson (4 October 1941 – 31 July 2025)

VISIONARY ONE OF THE FEW OF WHOM IT CAN BE SAID OF THE FEW IT CAN BE SAD There follows a resource from Time Sensitive, Robert Wilson interviewed by Spencer Bailey. I like it but I wasn't looking for this. I was looking (and I would like to

MINUS

MINUS

THEATRE The Minus Theatre Group practices a unique form of theatre which is open to all levels of experience, does not require any special skills and does not require mastery of English: it is a theatre language minus the mastery of literature, minus the masters, a theatre language based in