Michael Templeton

Michael Templeton

Wander Lines

…the cruelty of the inexhaustible
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…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.”

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wither the ghosts
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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.“

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literature, art, and rats
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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…”

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