We call it slop. That word shows up everywhere now, usually as a dismissal. Slop is the bad output. The extra fingers. The warped face. The sentence that sounds confident but collapses under scrutiny. Slop is treated as a bug, a temporary embarrassment on the way to cleaner systems and better models. But slop is […]
Subversion in Cyberspace – F.A.T. Lab in Academia
We just stumbled across a Case Study about F.A.T. Lab by Axelle Van Wynsberghe. It was published in 2017, in the field of “Cultural Studies & Social Anthropology”. The case study is titled “The ‘Malign Torsion’ of the Hyperreal: Simulation & Subversion in Cyberspace“.Interviewees were F.A.T. members Evan, Magnus, Randy and Tina. Did F.A.T. Lab’s […]