#NoteToSelf
Les réflexions de Julian Bleecker (Near Future Laboratory) autour de la question de l'oeuvre et de sa forme – un texte est-il forcément un livre ?, un disque est-il forcément une musique ?, une oeuvre numérique est-elle forcément un fichier ? – font éclore quelques idées qui ne déplairaient pas à certains par ici.
Elles ont au moins le mérite d'être un temps d'arrêt, même si ce n'est que le temps d'une lecture, dans la cavalerie de cette fin d'année. Et c'est déjà bien.
À lire donc dans la dernière lettre "Near Future Laboratory Newsletter" de l'année, ici → https://nearfuturelaboratory.com/newsletters/2025/w52-y25/

Near Future Laboratory Newsletter
Near Future Laboratory newsletter W52 Y25, “Audacious Containers + Worldbuilding,” argues that creativity in the age of AI does not live in stacks, services, and distribution endpoints, but in the audacity to refuse default forms and invent new containers for meaning. The issue opens with a story about a design-fiction “album” built as a physical box of artifacts plus a retro-evocative website, and connects that sensibility to David Byrne’s “things in boxes” experiments and to Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions, which invites audiences to receive a film like a sonic album rather than a three-act movie. It reframes hope as the stubborn act of making other forms so other worlds become possible to sense and inhabit. Also featured are studio updates: Near Future Laboratory Podcast episode 103 with Dr. Tom Guarriello on the meaning of branded objects; Vibewriter, a timed genre-vibe writing game with an AI host; an instrumented edition of The Work Kit of Design Fiction as a collaborative MadLibs partner; Comfy Light Table (ComfyLT), a generative-image cataloging tool with an MCP interface; Files2Book, a drag-and-drop utility that turns folders into print-ready book PDFs; notes from a confidential $tech “value futures” engagement; Office Hours N°290 call log highlights (cyberdeck local LLMs, newsletter guilt detox, reading rituals, and AI filmmaking with taste); Bruce Sterling’s SXSW 2025 talk on rebuilding imaginary futures; Drift Deck from the project archives; a four-book design fiction bundle; Discord-curated items on AI fiction, censorship-resistant networking via Reticulum, maker hardware returning in 2026, artists and AI, and an AI-botched Fallout recap; plus classifieds for MBZUAI’s PhD in Human-Computer Interaction applications due February 27, 2026.











