Research pathway · selected writing
Media Theory & Creative Inquiry
Selected writing on media form, cinema, communications theory, cultural systems, psychoanalysis, embodiment, creativity, and the changing relation between humans and intelligent machines.
Creative Industries, Media & Culture
5 selected- 01Empire and the Machine: Harold Innis, AI and Communications MediaIn the fourth millennium before Christ, somewhere along the Nile, an Egyptian priest looked at the star Sirius's reflection in the water and created a…
- 02Harrold Innis, Empire and AI: Biases of the MachineRaymond John Uzwyshyn, Ph.D. Ask a question in 2026 — any question, about anything — and the answer arrives before the asking is over. It appears in c…
- 03Marshall Mcluhan and AI: Figure and GroundMarshall McLuhan’s "ground and figure" framework is a method of media analysis that asserts new technologies (figure) create entirely new, often invis…
- 04Shelves of Loving Grace: Dario Amodei's Anthropic BookshelfBookshelf from the introduction of a June 2026 Bloomberg Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1wZwxY3CMg A shelf composed for a camera is not a…
- 05Dust in the Wind: AI, Spores and Media SpecificityPart I: The Band in the Mirror In June 2025, a psychedelic rock band called The Velvet Sundown released their debut album, "Floating on Echoes. Within…
Science & Technology AI Literacy
7 selected- 06AI and The Cognitive Nonconscious - N. Katherine Hayles and the Hidden Life of MindThe Polymath Who Bridged Worlds (Note: This is chapter three of a longer work on AI scaling laws, multimodal AI and the progress of the knowledge in t…
- 07Embodied Cognition, Play and Neural NetsSutton, Lakoff and Memisevic Play, Perception, and the Architecture of Embodied Cognition (This is a simplified version of written scientific more com…
- 08Ettinger, Varela, AI: Convergences and Tensions(Part IV of a Five Part Series) When Francisco Varela died in Paris in May 2001, at fifty-four, his liver finally failing after years of Hepatitis C a…
- 09Notes on the Material Unconscious of AII. The Fold In Sunnyvale, a robot reaches for a towel. The moment is unremarkable—white terrycloth, slightly damp, crumpled from a dryer that hums thr…
- 10PART I FRANCISCO VARELA - EMBODIED COGNITION AND ENACTIVISMThe Body's Wisdom, The World's Making Francisco Javier Varela García was born in 1946 in Talcahuano, Chile, and died in Paris on May 28, 2001 Wikipedi…
- 11PART II: BRACHA ETTINGER — AI's Matrixial Borderspaces (Part III of a Five Part SeriesIn a studio in the eleventh arrondissement of Paris, an artist in her seventies reads Francisco Varela. Not the way most people read him—not for infor…
- 12Katherine Hayles and the Future of AI LiteracyLast Thursday, a Stanford sophomore submitted an essay about Virginia Woolf that her professor couldn't quite place. The prose shimmered with insight…
Sociocultural Impact & Futures
3 selected- 13Control Societies in the Age of Global AI and Data: A Professional's Guide to Navigating Algorithmic InfluenceIntroduction: The Invisible Infrastructure of Professional Life Walk into any modern office building, and you'll witness the quiet revolution reshapin…
- 14AI Attention EconomiesThe woman sitting next to Kyla Scanlon on the six-hour flight to New York City never once looked up. For the entire journey across the continental Uni…
- 15The Algorithm Knows You Better Than You Know YourselfHow AI is Quietly Shaping Your Professional Identity (And What You Can Do About It) 🤖 That moment when LinkedIn suggests the perfect job posting... Y…