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AI resource: schematic based on Minus workshop 7, part 1

AI resource: schematic based on Minus workshop 7, part 1

1. Gesture and embodied perception Gesture opens perception to duration: it is naturalistic but not representational, outside the closure of recognition. It embodies an immediacy that resists capture. This perceptual openness is already political because it interrupts habits of thought and the symbolic systems that seek stability. 2. Culture as
Simon Taylor 17 Sep 2025
Does global data reflect a war on the imagination?

Does global data reflect a war on the imagination?

before it answers that, Is such a question petty in this new age of genocide? Chat GPT 5 answers 12.09.2025: That is not a petty question—it cuts to the heart of how different forms of violence are related. On the surface, genocide and the erosion of cultural
Simon Taylor 13 Sep 2025
resource 20.08.2025

resource 20.08.2025

[ChatGPT 5 on]... the Outside Light piece titled “We are allowing the proliferation of a technology which will not destroy humanity but will destroy its thought.” Here's a concise assessment of how it intersects with our philosophical conversation—especially around perception, imagination, and AI governmentality: Assessment & Integration
Simon Taylor 20 Aug 2025
resource 14.08.2025

resource 14.08.2025

Below please find a record of an interchange from 14 August 2025 with ChatGPT 5. It makes two conceptual additions to my theory of AI: 1. imagination: what is imagination in view of AI perception (so far defined by modulation)? 2. "the outside—human, social, informational ... exists for me
Simon Taylor 14 Aug 2025
13.08.2025 ChatGPT 5: artificial imagination

13.08.2025 ChatGPT 5: artificial imagination

This resource contains the prompts and revisions for Artificial Imagination, Quantised Governmentality and the Societies of Automated Control if we consider perception to coincide with the actual, with the actual technological instantiation, in hardware, and the temporality 'occupied' by the AI; and if we consider imagination to correspond
Simon Taylor 13 Aug 2025
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, and
Simon Taylor 06 Aug 2025
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
Simon Taylor 05 Aug 2025

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