Michael Templeton
Michael Templeton
Wander Lines
…the cruelty of the inexhaustible
by Michael Templeton
“The digital sex bot can stand in for live nude girls, but we always know it is not a live nude girl. But with AI, as long as we feed it what it needs, which is humanity, it will increasingly appear to be a live nude girl.”
the future is old and dead
by Michael Templeton
“It no longer matters, it seems, this idea of authenticity. At some point we came to realize that everything we saw as authentic was itself some kind of derivative version of something else.”
wither the ghosts
by Michael Templeton
“Maybe I am just being sentimental. Or maybe there is something profoundly wrong with a world that cannot make room for a simple ghost at the movies, and in abandoning that ghost, maybe we have abandoned ourselves.“
literature, art, and rats
by Michael Templeton
“For Debré, literature needs to die to become the rat language that it needs to be, the language of the night that scurries beneath the dominant forms, the walls and towers of culture…”
lines, wander and otherwise
by Michael Templeton
“We understand the weavers of tapestries, but we do not understand how the spider weaves the web.”