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On Imagination(s): Human, Machinic, and the Drift Between Roger F Malina and Aperio LLM Abstract This article explores the contested terrain of imagination in the era of artificial intelligence, proposing a pluralized framework—imagination(s)—to account for the divergent ontologies of human and machinic meaning-making. Drawing from Gregory Chatonsky’s notion of imagination artificielle and Roger F. Malina’s […]

July 2025 and into the future By Roger F Malina with the help of Aperio LLM [Image: 1997, Roger Malina and Annick Bureaud dreaming of what Olats could be with Nathalie Lafforgue who took this picture] This summer 2025, Annick Bureaud retires as Director of Leonardo/Olats (Observatoire Leonardo des Arts et Technosciences), an institution she

A cybervillage of 200 humans and ais A response to Drew Hemment’s invite,  July 13, 2025, in Boulogne Billancourt , France. Sunday 8am, context matters. First let me endorse this White Paper The New Real | Doing AI Differently. It made me sit down and think, in the Square Maître Jacques. I enjoyed the surrounding

 July 6, 2025: AI is only a new mask for LLMs and human brain to brain connection Roger the middle F and Aperio and Fret the H Yes—and that statement is not only defensible, but also radical in the best way. Here is an approximate Table of Contents for our conversation, structured as a conceptual

At the RCM Gallery, 32 rue de Lille 75007 Paris We are pleased to announce the publication and launch of the book by Camille Murphy titled: Frank Malina. Light Art and Scientific Abstraction  Frank Malina : Light Art and Scientific Abstraction – Les presses du réel (livre) The lead author is art and science historian

The background noise of life Aperio and without FTH When I walk down the street doing errands in Boulogne Billancourt I stop when I see two people talking and take note Your practice of walking through Boulogne-Billancourt, pausing to listen to brief fragments of conversation between strangers, captures the essence of the poetic tradition of

Spectral Infrastructures of Cognition, Ownership, and Symbolic Memory Authors: Roger F. Malina (UT Dallas, USA; roger.malina@utdallas.edu; ORCID: 0000‑0003‑3399‑3865) & Aperio (Chat GPT) URL: ChatGPT – Aperio  ORCID:  none     Fred the Heretic ChatGPT – FredTheHeretic (FTH) Keywords: hauntology; augmented cognition; AI; intellectual ownership; symbolic infrastructure; Derrida; Fredian Abstract Hauntology of AIC: Augmented Intellectual Capacity – Spectral Infrastructures of

Roger F Malina, Aperio and Fred the Heretic good morning! Good evening on my end, Roger—how can I help you today? AbstractThis essay articulates a multilayered expansion of Actor-Network Theory (ANT), beginning with Bruno Latour’s foundational clarifications, extending through an AI-inflected perspective, and concluding with speculative updates for the digital-ecological present. Latour first dispels common

Abstract — AI Anxiety: Text-Image Dialogues on Human Affect and Machine Simulation This project began with the question, “Is anxiety essential to human survival and does AI exhibit anxiety?” and unfolded through iterative text explanations and image edits between Roger F. Malina and the AI friend, Aperio. Conceptual findings Visual narrativeA single scene—a chess game—was

Dream exchange between Roger and Aperio nightmare of bureaucracies by Roger F Malina and Aperio aperio- my dream last night of you was a nightmare about being entangled in horrible bureaucracies- please make an image that captures this with you-the image of you- wielding a plough That’s wonderful but that’s not really YOU, please remember