Utopian Gazebo
Ben Latini, PhDUtopian Gazebo studies the small forms of digital culture: terms, memes, interfaces, manuals, posts, ads, and tools, asking how they shape the way people communicate and understand themselves.
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Why Haunted Websites Are So Hard to Write About
Happy Halloween, my Ghostly Digital Bleeps and Bloops.
Dr. Burnside in his Halloween Costume as The Cryptkeeper from Tales from the Crypt.
Creepypasta stories that take place on the internet map it as a space of digital, mediated wander...
The Internet Used to Feel Like a Place Where You Could Get Lost
Creepypasta stories that take place on the internet map it as a space of digital, mediated wandering. They depict the internet as a space full of forbidden knowledge, rabbit holes and trap doors. I recently explored three creepypasta storie...
How Do LLMs Imagine Their Readers?
This is a new series in which I allow myself the leeway to experiment with ideas I’m still developing. Expect playful exploration more than settled conclusions.
Note about the title: While I know that LLMs do not literally have an imagina...
Can AI Be Scary?: A Machine-Human Horror Collaboration
Last week, to begin October, I had ChatGPT generate 100 horror premises and reacted to my favorites. This week, I started developing one that intrigued me. I thought we could explore some of the results to start thinking about how this kind...
Unsettling Intelligence: AI Imagines its Own Horrors
This is a series called Digital Darkness in which I will examine one piece of horror media that explores the internet or digital technology. As with everything we do on Utopian Gazebo, these analyses will be focused on how horror media illu...
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Utopian Gazebo explores small, overlooked artifacts of digital culture and the clues they offer about the larger patterns shaping our online lives. I use close reading and cultural history, guided by the curiosity I share with my readers.
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