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"Awareness is critique"

Kenneth Goldsmith talks to Kathrin Jira about writing in the internet age, double standards in literature, and the rigors of uncreativity

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Video still from Coca-Cola's 1971 commercial "I want to teach the world to sing"

Still from Coca-Cola's 1971 commercial "I want to teach the world to sing"

The Downward Spiral

In this month's column, Dean Kissick goes back to the Summer of Love to understand how we landed in our atomised present.

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Nobutaka Aozaki, Value Added 240950 (Del Monte whole kernel corn no salt added) , 2012 Canned corn and receipts

Nobutaka Aozaki, Value Added 240950 (Del Monte whole kernel corn no salt added), 2012
Canned corn and receipts

Essay: without you

What if you can’t see an event? First of all, it doesn’t matter: anthropocentrism is out and it’s time we accepted that there are events that have nothing to do with humans being around to witness them. Benjamin H. Bratton talks about Google’s Nest, buying a can of corn in the supermarket, and the big question of scale.

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The #DEEPDREAM Trip Report

The biggest news of the month is that Google has developed an Artificial Intelligence that is able to paint. The artist Daniel Keller tried it out. In the process, he discovered two things: a Post-Internet art of hallucinogens and an answer to the question of why visual memes can so quickly go from mindblowing to lame.