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THE ARCHIVE ⊕ PRESS RUN 001

The Plates

  1. PL.01 Seven Seconds A notification costs seven measured seconds of cognitive processing. The bell has been engineering attention for nine centuries. Someone finally counted. 08.07.26
  2. PL.02 The Feed Made You A randomised study in Nature moved 4,965 people's beliefs by reordering their feeds. Switching the algorithm off did not switch the people back. 01.07.26
  3. PL.03 You Now Have Three Brains Kahneman gave us System 1 and System 2. A new paper adds System 3: the model you think with. The count will not stop at three. 24.06.26
  4. PL.04 Digital Amnesia Is a Measurement Now Tertiary retention spent forty years as theory. Two systematic reviews just gave it a sample size. 17.06.26
  5. PL.05 The Computational World Picture Heidegger said modernity turned the world into a picture. Hui says computation now produces the world it pictures. 10.06.26
  6. PL.06 Cosmotechnics Is a Land Claim Technodiversity used to be a philosophical programme. Data centres on Native land turned it into a territorial one. 03.06.26
  7. PL.07 When Thought Becomes Property Two legislatures now treat the mind as a vault to be defended. The vault has always leaked into its instruments. 27.05.26
  8. PL.08 Constitutive Resonance Every prompt you send is a small act of self-composition. A new preprint gives the mechanism a name. 20.05.26

We create our tools. And then they create us.

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