After Literacy
Jac MullenMapping the Post-Literate World
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Attention Machines and Future Politics
“Weaver and Loom.” Hand-drawn (colored pencil); digitally altered post-capture. Jac Mullen, 2025.
Below, I talk with Peter Schmidt, Co-Founder and Program Director of the Strother School of Radical Attention (SoRA).
NOTE: SoRA is publis...
Otto’s Dystopian Notebook
This is the second installment of a series exploring the following claim:
Just as writing externalized memory, AI is externalizing attention.
For more context on the series, please see the “author’s note” at the bottom of this pa...
The Loom and the Weavers
Essay updated June 17, 2025: Revised and expanded sections §2-3 (to clarify “externalized attention” and loom vs. weaver distinction)
Essay updated June 8, 2025: Wrote a new introduction (to clarify purpose); revised and expanded §2-3, 6...
How to Do Soul-Craft with State Tools
A cuneiform list of professions from c. 3000 BCE (artist’s rendering)
We seem to be grieving literacy in public lately. Thoughtful essays keep appearing—in The Guardian, The Atlantic, and across this platform—all asking why reading now fee...
The Digital Tilma
A note on method and stakes:
This piece sits at the confluence of three currents:
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the technical mechanics of output-attractors in large language models
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the alignment and governance dilemmas that arise when those attracto...
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Writer & teacher. On about: post-literacy; AI; cognitive ecology; hallucinatory vibes-based tyranny.
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