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On the #future of #BeingHuman:
“The argument begins with one danger: the premature closure of the human. Modern civilisation has largely recognised human value through tasks, roles, credentials, wages, outputs, productivity, employability and economic contribution. The #labourunit was never the human. It was a reduction of the human into an externally instructed and measurable unit of prescribed value.

#Artificialintelligence exposes that reduction because it automates much of what the labour economy had already formalised as instruction, workflow, symbol, metric, classification and output. The crisis is not that human value disappears. The crisis is that the inherited grammar through which human value has been recognised can no longer carry the human.

The next danger is that the collapse of labour-unit value does not liberate the human. It may move the human from one commodity form to another: from #labourcommodity to #behaviouralcommodity. The old economy extracted labour. The emerging machine economy risks extracting behaviour, attention, emotion, preference, gesture, intimacy, vulnerability, relation and #becoming.”

https://dark-matter-labs.github.io/future_of_being_human/

Ordinariness stranger, or: That’s my bag

A Sijo

What Do You See 341

For WDYS, Sadje offers us a photo by krzhck (Unsplash) of a person sitting outside at what looks like a normal backyard get-together, holding an iced coffee while wearing a brown paper bag over their whole head. In the background, a few other people stand in the sunny yard near outdoor furniture, making the strange hiding place feel both funny and a little sad.

As always, Sadje is eagerly awaiting our responses!

Sijo?

A Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka and comprised of three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables. Each line contains a pause near the middle, similar to a caesura, though the break need not be metrical. The first half of the line contains six to nine syllables; the second half should contain no fewer than five. Originally intended as songs, sijo can treat romantic, metaphysical, or spiritual themes. Whatever the subject, the first line introduces an idea or story, the second supplies a “turn,” and the third provides closure. Modern sijo are sometimes printed in six lines.

Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!

Wide shut, or: Belonging to a name

A Sijo

What Do You See 340

For WDYS, Sadje offers us a photo by Amirreza Taqavi (Unsplash), taken in Mashhad, Iran, of a single hand reaching up from a field full of bright red poppies. In the distance, there are pale mountains and a soft sky. The hand has vine-like tattoos on the wrist, making it look almost connected to the plants around it.

As always, Sadje is eagerly awaiting our responses!

Sijo?

A Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka and comprised of three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables. Each line contains a pause near the middle, similar to a caesura, though the break need not be metrical. The first half of the line contains six to nine syllables; the second half should contain no fewer than five. Originally intended as songs, sijo can treat romantic, metaphysical, or spiritual themes. Whatever the subject, the first line introduces an idea or story, the second supplies a “turn,” and the third provides closure. Modern sijo are sometimes printed in six lines.

Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!