my latest for @artreview.bsky.social: "I have to wonder if her exoticism, combined with the Spanish listener’s eagerness for a homegrown international pop star, and her honest-to-God singing chops, are all casting a beautiful mantilla over something seriously mediocre." artreview.com/what-do-rosa...

for @emptysetmagazine.bsky.social, "As wide-ranging as they can be, these made-for-the-feed horror videos all bear the signature slick and shine of their AI origination, as thin and flavorless as spit to make the underlying violence go down easy." www.emptysetmag.com/articles/ai-...

For @thecut.com, I wrote about "second-hand thinkers" using ChatGPT in escape rooms, and what the AI's pivot to leisure (and video) says about the state of the industry: www.thecut.com/article/woul...

is AI *actually* the aesthetic of fascism? I think a lot of the discourse has gotten it wrong, and I explained why in my latest for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/the-fascinat...

you don't have to be *yourself* online and you should beware any demand to create a robust (trackable, surveillable) online *presence.* forgot to share my latest for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/why-do-we-ha...

the internet is for lying! artreview.com/why-do-we-ha...

I went long on how policy, colonialism, being neglect, diaspora and the contemporary art market produce layers of visibility and obscurity for Santurce's contemporary art scene for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/how-to-see-t...

I went long on how policy, colonialism, being neglect, diaspora and the contemporary art market produce layers of visibility and obscurity for Santurce's contemporary art scene for @artreview.bsky.social artreview.com/how-to-see-t...

ai accelerationism 🤝 primitive accumulation

I was on @npr.org “It's Been A Minute" talking about longevity bros, techno-mysticism and Silicon Valley's fascist bend towards self-destructive transhumanism www.npr.org/2025/04/23/1...

for @artreview.bsky.social i wrote about sam altman’s saccharine post about his creative writing model and how he asked trump for special exemptions from copyright law so that “AI’s ‘freedom to learn’ from copyrighted material” just two days later artreview.com/sam-altman-a...

my latest for @artreview.bsky.social is about eugenicist impulse shared by AGI evangelists and longevity hackers like Bryan Johnson artreview.com/the-techbro-...

ins and outs for 2025

every book i read in 2024 open.substack.com/pub/michelle...

contributed to @artreview.bsky.social end of year package with my thoughts on the Year in Technology artreview.com/the-year-in-...

some of the books i want to read in 2025:

part two of my Girlbots essay is on: woman-machine metaphors, Serial Experiments Lain, and the monstrous-feminine

accidentally marked my whole inbox as read and I'm deciding to leave it that way. I earned this.

wrote a two-part essay about feminization + digitization, cyberfeminism, the TESCREAL bundle, and Serial Experiments Lain and The Ginny Suite 💌

i hate AI and everything it stands for. AI is an ideology masked as a technology (its constituent technologies have a wide range of more-precise and accurate names). no, i don’t think it raises interesting questions about ‘what is art’ that we didn’t ask ourselves in the ‘60s.