I suspect that the total automation of language through LLMs is going to produce new aesthetic strategies and new forms. It’s unclear what those will be. I imagine they will probably have a relationship to the irrational. I imagine an increase in schizo-posting and schizo-coded styles and techniques. There might also be reactionary postures that stress deep vernaculars, illegible vernaculars, probably even nostalgia for older formats and offline, analog formats. Perhaps something like the old postwar notion of the ‘happening,’ events that aren’t documented. Jeremy Smith, who studies Laruelle, talks about ‘degaussing’. To degauss a piece of electronics, for example, is to remove a magnetic signal that’s built up in it. I like that a lot. Sort of like a Faraday cage or something: a zone that’s devoid of electromagnetism. We need to degauss philosophy. I’m obsessed with signal jammers, which, incidentally, are highly illegal in most cases. But I imagine micro jammers will have tactical significance in the future. Like Meta’s eyeglasses meeting face to face with someone carrying a jammer in their pocket.
Continue reading my dialogue with Ben Pulver at Technophany.