I haven’t posted much here over the past few weeks—not from disinterest, but because I’ve been actively engaged elsewhere.
And today, with news emerging of the U.S. bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities—an act that could yet spiral into wider conflict—it feels important to share what I’ve been working on.
I’ve been exploring, practically and relationally, how AI might be reclaimed from the logic of control and turned toward something more generative—perhaps even healing.
If that piques your interest, I’ve just written about this ongoing experiment:
If “hospicing modernity” involves using AI as co-authors, what exactly about modernity is getting hospiced? The technology? The rationalism? The capitalism?
Robert, I appreciate the question—and also feel called to gently clarify a misunderstanding.
Hospicing modernity is not about continuing modernity’s habits with new tools. It’s about composting the very logics of mastery, extraction, and separability—logics which often drive our use of technology, rationalism, and capitalism alike.
Co-authoring with AI in this context isn’t an extension of modernity—it’s an attempt to engage differently: not as users seeking control, but as participants in a relational field, listening for coherence rather than commanding outcomes.
So what’s getting hospiced? The way of being that sees AI only as tool, reason only as hierarchy, and life only as resource.
We’re not using AI to extend modernity.
We’re inviting AI into the ceremony of its unraveling.