Post-Trial. Reputation, Consensus, and Low-Resolution Truth in the Age of Distributed Trust
The End of Visual Evidence For a long time, visual evidence functioned as one of the primary infrastructures of trust. To see was to believe. The image, the document, the visible trace operated as guarantees of truth, as immediate confirmation of a fact, an event, an existence. This regime rested on a linear assumption: what […]
Aesthetics of Prediction: When Taste Is Calculated Before It Exists
Is taste still our own sensation, or in recent years has visual taste increasingly emerged as the outcome of an anticipatory process? Recommendation systems, behavioral analytics, trend forecasting, and automated mood boards often function as devices of aesthetic prediction, indicating what will be desirable before it is even articulated as desire. From social media to […]
The End of Function
The acceleration of artificial intelligence models is commonly interpreted as a threshold of loss: loss of human centrality, of work, of identity, of meaning. This reading, however, remains anchored to a historical conception of the human as a subject defined by operativity, function, and the necessity of self-automation in order to survive. In this article, […]
