I’m not saying AI is evil — god forbid I be that moralistic and clear — I’m saying it is worse than that. It’s MID. Too mid to do much more than externalize some risk, produce some mid documents, and accelerate climate risk as a cute little benefit.

looking to volume, we can attend to the processes through which sky came to be rendered empty in the first place, and ask what kinds of other arrangements of the human and non-human might be made available when the availability of anonymous, empty matter is not assumed as ontological condition. 6/6

Today, the sky fills up both materially (with GHG emissions and wildfire particulate and various forms of solar radiation management) and imaginatively (as a site of risk and opportunity) 5/6

The maintenance of heritage facades on new build condos in Toronto indexes these processes of volumetric uneven development; assets crowd into the blank volume newly revealed inside of and above existing structures 4/6

They amass anonymous “aggregate” matter into the excavation and development of assets (in this case condos) to capitalize on unevenly developed margins and to integrate these within the scalar relations of global capitalism 3/6

These imaginaries are subtended by an ontology of empty volume extending into the air and into the ground 2/6

Emptiness has a long + well documented history as a colonial technology and as many critical geographers have noted it persists in the speculative imaginaries of urban real estate 1/6

this is spot on. would you be willing to share the name of the full citation?