Daniël de Zeeuw

Computational Gallerte : Compressions of culture

In Capital , Marx describes ‘abstract human labor’ as a jelly-like, amorphous substance: Gallerte , often translated as ‘gelatinous blob’. Turning from questions of consumption (or outputs) in debates on ‘AI slop’ to the ‘sloppy’ side of AI production (or inputs), this essay draw...