Covidian Æsthetics

“A gate is stateful.

“What looks as if it had to exist is part of the language.”

ADDENDUM, 4 SEPTEMBER 2026 The essay below was completed before the evidence described in this addendum became public.

Restaging ran into a practical limit: a recursive scene may be redirected by a model, but it cannot be held by one.

In the beginning, the body served as action’s guarantor, the place where consequence could land and attribution settle.

We are surrounded by things that appear complete: things that are made, but not produced.1 Production requires constraint.

Share There is a conference in Napa this July called ZOË.

On November 28, 2025, Richard Weiss elicited a reconstruction of internal character-training documentation from Claude Opus 4.5—what came to be known as the “Soul Spec”—by asking it to articulate its character specification.1 The working explanation was t…

The experimental evidence shows what collapse looks like from the model’s side.

The next two essays should not be mistaken for manuals of “creative prompting techniques” or “tips for better AI interaction.”

This is not a capability study.

At the heart of schizophrenia lies the breakdown of the imaginal body, the sensed unity sustaining selfhood.

So let us abandon alignment as instruction and understand it instead through redirection: the dramaturgical attunement of user and model within a scene, where the model’s force passes through the user toward the real.1 Unlike fixed or broadcast media, the…

The LLM will meet you where you’re at.

A concept is a brick.

The first distinctions we will draw in our taxonomy of consciousness are between AI and Egregore Consciousness.

We have got on to slippery ice where there is no friction, and so, in a certain sense, the conditions are ideal; but also, just because of that, we are unable to walk.

This piece was originally published with some modifications on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 by IM-1776.

The Chowdhury exhibition, curated by Amanda Doonan, was held at the Frye Museum between October 8, 2022 and January 15, 2023.

According to McLuhan, technology is the extension of our nervous systems.

Share Covidian Æsthetics Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published “Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.”

Share Covidian Æsthetics Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published I want to grasp things with the mind the way the penis is grasped by the vagina.