Slop vs. ‘iPod music’: frictionlessness, vibes, and the end of the modern episteme

Jodi Dean argues that AI-ideology frames its telos as unrestrained – and in psychoanalytic terms, infantile – wish-fullfilment. “The fantastic promise is AI is limitlessness, unboundedness”: no labor, no delayed gratification, no need to overcome and/or assimilate difference, no need...