Sam Kriss Archives

Politics After Literacy

“Postliteracy won’t replace reason with madness, but it might give us madness of a new and different type.”

In this edition: the appeal of the surreal, decoding AI dreck, goop relations, learning to think, and pigeon racing pitfalls

“If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive—and grating—voice.”

But then it didn’t happen. Or did it?

“The injunction not to look directly into the sun isn’t just medical — it’s always political.”