Modern
@johnmodern.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, editor, producer, aging hipster….currently writing a book on Akron, OH and another one on the secret history of artificial intelligence. [www.johnmodern.com]
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NEW CRITICAL AI SERIES CLUSTER, "Gen AI and/as Religion" - edited by @johnmodern.bsky.social
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CAI SPECIAL SERIES CFP: FEEL THE AGI! GEN AI AND/AS RELIGION
Special Topic Series in Critical AIFeel the AGI! On (Generative) AI and/as ReligionSeries Editor John Modern (Franklin & Marshall College) The language of religion courses through the AI hype m…
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October 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
NEW CRITICAL AI SERIES CLUSTER, "Gen AI and/as Religion" - edited by @johnmodern.bsky.social
criticalai.org/2025/10/01/c...
Please share widely!
criticalai.org/2025/10/01/c...
Please share widely!
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New essay now online: "EATING THE FUTURE: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop."
AI consumes planetary resources and excretes slop, polluting environmental & information ecologies. It's a new metabolic rift - disrupting the cycles that sustain both humans and AI alike.
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
AI consumes planetary resources and excretes slop, polluting environmental & information ecologies. It's a new metabolic rift - disrupting the cycles that sustain both humans and AI alike.
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
Intensification - Kate Crawford - Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop
AI slop isn’t invested in the order of events or even looking like reality. The slop is not the territory: it just smothers it in synthetic goop. It’s flooding the zone with AI shit.
www.e-flux.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
New essay now online: "EATING THE FUTURE: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop."
AI consumes planetary resources and excretes slop, polluting environmental & information ecologies. It's a new metabolic rift - disrupting the cycles that sustain both humans and AI alike.
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
AI consumes planetary resources and excretes slop, polluting environmental & information ecologies. It's a new metabolic rift - disrupting the cycles that sustain both humans and AI alike.
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
Gemini is good for you…..
September 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Gemini is good for you…..
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“Do not obey in advance.”
“Prioritize joy.”
“Take up space.”
“Be in solidarity.”
“Organize.”
Fantastic piece on what FreeDC is teaching us with its immediate and potent resistance to the Trump attempt to take over that city.
“Prioritize joy.”
“Take up space.”
“Be in solidarity.”
“Organize.”
Fantastic piece on what FreeDC is teaching us with its immediate and potent resistance to the Trump attempt to take over that city.
5 things Free DC is teaching us
In case you missed the news, Donald Trump has ordered the National Guard to head to our nation’s capital. Claiming emergency powers from the Home Rule charter due to crime, he’s taking control of the ...
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August 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
“Do not obey in advance.”
“Prioritize joy.”
“Take up space.”
“Be in solidarity.”
“Organize.”
Fantastic piece on what FreeDC is teaching us with its immediate and potent resistance to the Trump attempt to take over that city.
“Prioritize joy.”
“Take up space.”
“Be in solidarity.”
“Organize.”
Fantastic piece on what FreeDC is teaching us with its immediate and potent resistance to the Trump attempt to take over that city.
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This is maybe the worst part about being an educator in the AI era.
AI companies are *stealing your time* by making you work around it/find it/adjudicate it. Time that, 4 years ago, you would have used to improve your materials, or stay up-to-date on some area of research.
AI companies are *stealing your time* by making you work around it/find it/adjudicate it. Time that, 4 years ago, you would have used to improve your materials, or stay up-to-date on some area of research.
“Educators now spend a significant amount of their time detecting AI-generated work and seeking ways to assess whether students are developing essential skills.”
Yes. Everywhere.
Yes. Everywhere.
August 12, 2025 at 7:04 AM
This is maybe the worst part about being an educator in the AI era.
AI companies are *stealing your time* by making you work around it/find it/adjudicate it. Time that, 4 years ago, you would have used to improve your materials, or stay up-to-date on some area of research.
AI companies are *stealing your time* by making you work around it/find it/adjudicate it. Time that, 4 years ago, you would have used to improve your materials, or stay up-to-date on some area of research.
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BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.
Israeli strike on school-turned-shelter in Gaza kills 25, medics say
An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 25 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.
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May 26, 2025 at 5:22 AM
BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.
Lenny bent his knees and spread both arms wide, his mouth stretched in a rictus of gaped and grinning terror.
“We’re all gonna die!”
He loved this line so much that it was a little unnerving [] which could shatter a urinal at fifty feet.
- DD
“We’re all gonna die!”
He loved this line so much that it was a little unnerving [] which could shatter a urinal at fifty feet.
- DD
May 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Lenny bent his knees and spread both arms wide, his mouth stretched in a rictus of gaped and grinning terror.
“We’re all gonna die!”
He loved this line so much that it was a little unnerving [] which could shatter a urinal at fifty feet.
- DD
“We’re all gonna die!”
He loved this line so much that it was a little unnerving [] which could shatter a urinal at fifty feet.
- DD
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R.I.P. David Thomas of Pere Ubu . Really some of the best concerts I saw in the 70’s . Mind blowing in fact. Absolutely unique individual. Here’s one of my all time fave songs youtu.be/Leax63ullPE?...
Pere Ubu - Nonalignment Pact
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April 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
R.I.P. David Thomas of Pere Ubu . Really some of the best concerts I saw in the 70’s . Mind blowing in fact. Absolutely unique individual. Here’s one of my all time fave songs youtu.be/Leax63ullPE?...
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“…Collecting could be (& proudly so) reactionary to an emerging technological order. Collecting as nostalgia trip, performing the pressing claims of a time before this or that indignity…” The latest Collecting Religion essay from John Modern, is live! collectingreligion.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/o...
On Record Collecting, or the First Time I Encountered the Death Drive
by John Modern I have been a collector my whole life. These days mostly records, digging through crates, haggling, scanning the sites, DMing dealers from Sydney to Cleveland to Athens to Quebec, ba…
collectingreligion.wordpress.com
April 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
“…Collecting could be (& proudly so) reactionary to an emerging technological order. Collecting as nostalgia trip, performing the pressing claims of a time before this or that indignity…” The latest Collecting Religion essay from John Modern, is live! collectingreligion.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/o...
Grateful for this invitation to write around my records
“…Collecting could be (& proudly so) reactionary to an emerging technological order. Collecting as nostalgia trip, performing the pressing claims of a time before this or that indignity…” The latest Collecting Religion essay from John Modern, is live! collectingreligion.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/o...
On Record Collecting, or the First Time I Encountered the Death Drive
by John Modern I have been a collector my whole life. These days mostly records, digging through crates, haggling, scanning the sites, DMing dealers from Sydney to Cleveland to Athens to Quebec, ba…
collectingreligion.wordpress.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Grateful for this invitation to write around my records
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Hey, if you, like me, are a US citizen who's had your books/stories/articles stolen by Meta to train AI, you can submit your name to the class action suit using this easy contact form for one of the law firms involved: www.saverilawfirm.com/meta-languag...
March 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Hey, if you, like me, are a US citizen who's had your books/stories/articles stolen by Meta to train AI, you can submit your name to the class action suit using this easy contact form for one of the law firms involved: www.saverilawfirm.com/meta-languag...
friday psa: motherfuckers stole ALL of our shit #meta #libgen #thieves #scam #markfuckerberg @class200.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
friday psa: motherfuckers stole ALL of our shit #meta #libgen #thieves #scam #markfuckerberg @class200.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
A decent example of what is now sadly passing for critique of technology …. an astonishing amount of work going into ‘divesting’ one’s utterance of reflexivity and the integrity it entails. #fuckofftomars
#Roose has perfected the art of portraying the most inane statement as if it were a weighty prophesy.
Yes. People. Will Debate. My. Guff.
Yes. People. Will Debate. My. Guff.
March 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A decent example of what is now sadly passing for critique of technology …. an astonishing amount of work going into ‘divesting’ one’s utterance of reflexivity and the integrity it entails. #fuckofftomars
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read this one with first years again today: poets.org/poem/anthrop... worthwhile.
Anthropocene Pastoral
In the beginning, the ending was beautiful.
poets.org
March 13, 2025 at 3:18 AM
read this one with first years again today: poets.org/poem/anthrop... worthwhile.
Pressing play on Mixtape Metaphysics>>March 5
Ever wonder . . . are we living in a simulation?
Come find out at the opening of Mixtape Metaphysics at Modern Art on March 5: 6:30-9:30pm. Featuring a discussion with philosophers David Chalmers and Grace Helton and the premiere of Processing…A Philosophy Mixtape @davidchalmers.bsky.social
Come find out at the opening of Mixtape Metaphysics at Modern Art on March 5: 6:30-9:30pm. Featuring a discussion with philosophers David Chalmers and Grace Helton and the premiere of Processing…A Philosophy Mixtape @davidchalmers.bsky.social
February 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Pressing play on Mixtape Metaphysics>>March 5
overseen, central Market, Lancaster, PA #loveisintheair
February 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
overseen, central Market, Lancaster, PA #loveisintheair
31 Great Jones Street
January 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
31 Great Jones Street
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Mixtape metaphysics . . . Coming soon
January 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Mixtape metaphysics . . . Coming soon
St. Petersburg yes and no
December 26, 2024 at 9:46 PM
St. Petersburg yes and no
