From infinite mathematical points to AI paranoia, ‘The Singularity’ haunts our age. But what if these supposed endpoints are just clown cars packed with paradoxes? To understand our digital present, we need to track the ghosts of weird history.
Tag: Derrida
Threshold Mapping: Musing on a forgotten video game, Borges, and the worldmaking potential of AI
As I was reading William Egginton’s The Rigor of Angels, I began to think about thresholds. Or rather, I began to think about that liminal space in-between spaces, that no-space that allows both spaces to exist.