outside light
  • ① ② ③ digest
  • @ outside light
  • ⚗ theory
  • ✍ journal
  • ؎ a|poetry
  • ❡ other writing
  • ⏚ resources | links
Sign in Subscribe
⊖no windows

⊖no windows

see also the arrows works by Gordon Matta-Clark, shown here, which don't resemble those of another artist known for arrows, for example, Tàpies, whose textures are rough, Whiteread, who fills a lived volume, Matta-Clark, whose most well-known work is severed and cut, something it is
Simon Taylor 08 Nov 2025
① what part of words fall within bodily perception?

① what part of words fall within bodily perception?

this is the question from my reading of Bergson this morning. Arguing against the idea, which has returned since he was writing and entrenched itself as neuroscientific dogma, that memories are stored as images somewhere in the cells of the brain, Bergson suggests a motor-diagramme acquired by the body
Simon Taylor 06 Nov 2025
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

Subscribe to outside light

to receive posts directly by email please sign up
  • Sign up
outside light © 2026. Powered by Ghost