Moira, the J Dilla and Cuban Timba sections give this essay its deepest force because they make the argument bodily, rhythmic, and alive. You are naming something larger than digital fatigue: the way prediction systems can slowly train us away from the irregular, improvisational, relational parts of being human. The line that the algorithm can map our patterns but cannot map the moment we decide to stop following them feels like the hinge of the whole piece. Grateful for the clarity and imagination with which you connected attention, agency, music, AI, and the beautifully unquantised parts of human life.
Moira, the J Dilla and Cuban Timba sections give this essay its deepest force because they make the argument bodily, rhythmic, and alive. You are naming something larger than digital fatigue: the way prediction systems can slowly train us away from the irregular, improvisational, relational parts of being human. The line that the algorithm can map our patterns but cannot map the moment we decide to stop following them feels like the hinge of the whole piece. Grateful for the clarity and imagination with which you connected attention, agency, music, AI, and the beautifully unquantised parts of human life.