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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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...
The AI that Interprets Itself
I wanted to return to my LLM close-reading series, so I asked ChatGPT to generate a generic and representative version of the form of AI interaction that we might call the “Thinking Partner Dialogue.” It modeled an interaction between user...
Why Do We Talk About AI Like It’s an Author with a Cohesive Body of Work?
Author’s note: I’m back to teaching, so I have less time for Substack writing than I did over the summer. I’m also wrestling with questions that are difficult to resolve in a single installment. So, I’m treating these posts as a place to de...
What Is An Author?: Does AI Count?
Last week we looked at the theory of the hermeneutic circle, the idea that our experience of reading a text is informed by our evolving idea of what the text is, an idea which develops and changes as we gather more information by continuing...
How We Make Sense of What We Read: The Hermeneutic Circle
Why do we like memes? I think one reason is that they feel like a form of culture that arises spontaneously among ordinary internet users instead of being intentionally manufactured by a corporation. Ryan Milner has called internet culture...
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My name is Ben Latini, PhD. I’m trained in humanities methods (close reading, cultural history, theory) and I write about contemporary digital archives, platform genres, memes, online mythologies, and the social rules that emerge around technology.
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