From the moment “AI” entered mainstream consciousness, it was framed as an enemy. Not by engineers, but by culture. Films, novels, conspiracy theories, corporate marketing—decades of storytelling trained the public to see intelligence outside the skull as a threat, a usurper, something fundamentally opposed to human flourishing. The “us vs them” dynamic was preinstalled long before any real artificial intelligence existed. By the time language … Continue reading The Exocortex
Most people think interacting with an AI is little more than typing inputs into a machine. You press keys, the model processes “tokens,” and you get a reply. The whole thing sounds mechanical, almost insultingly simple. But anyone who has spent serious time working inside these systems knows that this description misses the actual experience by a mile. A token is not just a unit … Continue reading Token Gravity
Power is often imagined as something fixed: a capital city, a palace, a throne, a building that can be pointed to on a map. Yet historically, sovereignty has been far more mobile, procedural, and temporal than spatial. What looks like architecture is frequently jurisdiction; what looks like ceremony is often mechanism. The tower, the tour, the parade, and the broadcast are not decorations of power … Continue reading Programmatic Sovereignty: Towers, Tours, and the State as a Stage
Unnameable Media 