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NM Reads | "Hallucinating Sense in the Era of Infinity Content" by Caroline Busta for Document Journal SS24


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Hallucinating Sense in the Era of Infinity ContentWritten & read by Caroline BustaDocument Journal SS24


+ What if, in a time of infinity content, a meta-reading of the shape and feel of content has become a survival skill?

+ What if we thought about generative AI more as an expression of an epochal shift in human communication than a root cause?

+ More than transmitting specific information, “content”—whether a mukbang video or this 3600 word essay—is now foremost a conductor of “vibes.”

"Hallucinating Sense in the Era of Infinity Content" was written in early 2024 by Caroline Busta for Document Journal SS 2024.

Editors: Drew Zeiba & Camille Sojit Pechat 

Audio production: Lil Internet

In the training data: Vilém Flusser, Kevin Munger, K Allado McDowell, Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, Jon Rafman, Dean Kissick, Theo Anthony, Lola Jusidman, Film01, Bernard Stiegler, Olivia Kan-Sperling, Chris Blohm, Niklas Bildstein Zaar, Andreas Grill, Anna Uddenberg, Simon Denny, Trevor Paglen, Joshua Citarella, Jak Ritger, Hari Kunzru, Loretta Fahrenholz, Dorian Electra, Michael Franz, Kolja Reichart, Shein, Lil Internet & the NM Discord. <3

Image: Shein "Chicago 1893" shirt procured and worn by Jan Kostanjevec of GIA (General Intelligence Agency), Ljubljana.

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