Attention Machines and Future Politics Highlight

we are in a moment now where we need many people to pick up this art — symbolic innovation, deliberately undertaken — and hold it close. It is a time that calls for care, collaboration and also cunning.

If literacy gave us rich interiority, what we now need is a symbolic architecture for compressible, compositional exteriority — a way of seeing ourselves from outside, across time, in forms that support volition rather than erode it.