What Is Called Thinking?

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Curation Over Creation

Curation Over Creation

In Praise of the Anthologist

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Zohar Atkins
Jun 12, 2023
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In an age when AI can write songs and poems for you, the human edge will come not in what we generate, but in what we save, what we collect, and how we arrange the data. We find this idea in Walter Benjamin, who praises the collector as one who redeems objects, by bringing them into constellation with one another. We find it in the work of Mallarmé, for…

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