McLuhan describing the gnostic direction of modernists/symbolists, where nature was made into an artifact, autonomous, verbal, with grammatical structure, replacing being/nature, not unlike the promise of LLMs.
Plenty of art, especially visual, feels LLMish because technology is the mechanization of it; Art and social organization are prior to the technological; effects before causes, eg. non-chronological timelines in twitter => time is compacting, linearity is ending.
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Plenty of art, especially visual, feels LLMish because technology is the mechanization of it; Art and social organization are prior to the technological; effects before causes, eg. non-chronological timelines in twitter => time is compacting, linearity is ending.
The eerie order in the landscapes of German painter Markus Matthias Krüger (born 1981)
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This Gray Squirrel pulled off strips of bark from a small branch, added a nice collection of leaves, and then headed up to add the items to the drey (a ball-shaped nest built in trees.)
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One indicator of how we cant truly hate a person in the final reality of things is how comedic and performative it gets at the limit, "would you strangle a baby Hitler?" and all the practicalities; rendering the person themselves into an unrecognizable animal-like state.
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