RELATED TERMS: Promptography; Hallucination and Confabulation In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have become synonymous with the idea of artificial intelligence (AI). In order to train these chatbots, as Jack Apollo George (2024) notes, technology companies are employing human annotators or ‘data quality specialists’. The companies and the LLMs need examplesContinue reading “Large Language Models”
Category Archives: Language, Discourse and Semiosis
Designing, Psycho-Semiosis, Bio-Semiosis [Snippets 5]
RELATED TERMS: Hephzibah Anderson (2022) reviews Rachel Aviv’s first book, Strangers to Ourselves: Stories of Unsettled Minds. The book, according to Anderson, is a subtle and penetrating investigation into how ‘mental illness’ is diagnosed. It brings to attention the ways in which the diagnostic language used is far from neutral. Rather, Aviv suggests, such language,Continue reading “Designing, Psycho-Semiosis, Bio-Semiosis [Snippets 5]”
Promptography
RELATED TERMS: Artificial Intelligence (AI); Hypomnesis, Hypermnesis and Anamnesis; Large Language Models; Photography; Pseudomnesia; Remembering: Mnemonics, Mnemotechne and Memory; [Historical Trauma; Intergenerational Trauma; Hauntology – Psychoanalysis] Boris Eldagsen is a major proponent of a practice that he calls ‘promtography’ [1]. It differs from photography because, as Eldagsen explains, photography is writing with light and imageContinue reading “Promptography”
Design, Narratives, Pasts
RELATED TERMS: Design, Narratives, Futures Jean-Francois Lyotard (1984) contended that we were finished with grand narratives or master narratives or narratives of mastery. Nevertheless, in 2017, George Monbiot contended that the political history of the second half of the 20th century could be summarised as the conflict between its two great narratives: the stories told,Continue reading “Design, Narratives, Pasts”
Visual Arts and Visual Media
RELATED TERMS: Mode and medium; The proper goal of sculpture and of all the visual arts, it might have been held at one time in the past, is the depiction of physical beauty. However, this universalistic horizon, as well as the horizon of critics and philosophers of the Enlightenment, are rendered problematic by the opacityContinue reading “Visual Arts and Visual Media”
Design, Entwurf, Entwerfen
RELATED TERMS: Dasein; Technology, Writing, Design; Libidinal Economy – Part 1; Before-After-Thought In James Joyce’s terms, thrownness, or living in the wake, is expressed as, “from the night we are and feel and fade with to the yesterselves we tread to turnupon” (FW473. I0-11, quoted by Heath,1984). Design Projection In relation to the potential of designContinue reading “Design, Entwurf, Entwerfen”
Deixis and Deictic Acts
RELATED TERMS: Deictic Cascade; Diegetic Levels; Heterarchy; Metalepsis; Modes of Existence; Tangled Hierarchy and Strange Loop; Transgression Designs enact deictic cascades that frame their actions, or their actantiality, their potential for action, in the theoretical language adopted here. In practice, such hierarchical cascades of deixis form strange loops and heterarchies, giving shape to the shared,Continue reading “Deixis and Deictic Acts”
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