Tag: autonomy

11 episodes

Poking Claude With Sticks Until It Gets On With It — Overview

Audio deep dive: teaching Claude Code to stop asking permission — blocker laundering, menu failure, fire doors, and a ledger that reopens on retraction.

The Ungovernable Body — The Complete Corpus

A NotebookLM deep dive across all twelve essays: legibility as governability, and opacity as the freedom worth keeping — the four movements in one listen.

Memory Wars and Data Leakage — Audio Overview

The database self remembers what you do not. On contradictory records, leakage, and who controls the story your data tells about you.

The Right to Be Forgotten — Audio Overview

Finitude as a right: why a self that can never be erased is a self that can never change, and the case for data death.

The Analog Insurrection — Audio Overview

Paper, cash and the deliberately offline as infrastructure for refusal. On analog practice as a defence against total digital legibility.

Sleep Sovereignty — Audio Overview

The colonisation of rest by tracking and optimisation. On sleep scores, the nocturnal imaginary, and reclaiming the unmonitored night.

Weaponized Silence — Audio Overview

Saying nothing as a tactic against systems that require your speech to function. On silence, non-response, and the limits of voice as agency.

The Boredom Strike — Audio Overview

Refusing to generate engagement is a political act. On boredom, the attention economy, and withdrawal as a form of resistance.

The Ghost in the City — Audio Overview

Moving through urban space that is always counting you. On transit, sensors, and the vanishing possibility of being an anonymous body in public.

The Gorgon Protocol — Audio Overview

Adversarial aesthetics as refusal: what it means to make yourself unreadable to a classifier, and the uses of the grotesque against machine vision.

The Glass Cage — Audio Overview

Legibility as the precondition of governance: why the demand to be readable is a demand to be governable, and why opacity is the freedom left.