Read on for a dialogue on AI, capitalism, and the late-modern artistic struggle.

Read on about how the real threat isn’t what digital music producers think it is, and how they shoot the messenger.

Read on for some advice on writing poetry to avoid saddling readers with poems that ought to be ignored or burned.

Here's an invitation to listen to my second music album on YouTube, Vagaries of Deep Time .

Read on about the “remixes” of my first album that are out on YouTube.

Read on about my first music album, "Algos in the Cave," which is now out on YouTube.

Read on about the current algorithmic reckoning for human musicians.

Here's an article about phony lists of the best art, and how real experts’ criteria for excellence can’t be gamed.

Read on about how fiction saves us from confronting nature's inhuman enormities.

Here's an article about the Western canon, the problem with postmodern cynics, and the difference between art's historical importan...

Read on about the question of what’s more fundamental, storytelling or objective knowledge, and whether the possibility of objective truth ...

Here's an article about why science, capitalism, democracy, and the liberal arts may not be sustainable since they conflict in some way...

Here's an article about superstardom after the death of art, and whether Taylor Swift fulfills art's neoshamanic purpose.

Read on about why you shouldn’t publish if you can’t write well without computers, AI, and the internet, because publishing should be for m...

Read on about how we project our longings onto natural transformations, as we prefer order to disorder even though the two are interconnect...

Here's an article about the spectrum of artifacts in late-modern societies of abundance, and whether religious beliefs and rituals shou...

Here's an article about the corporate prioritizing of output over process, and the implications of consumers' devaluing of the arti...

Read on about how art, not wisdom, defines our species because counter-creation in a pantheistic context establishes our existential condit...

Here's an article that outlines transhuman values for our enlightened descendants, explaining how aesthetic values alone are metaphysic...

Read on to compare the music produced by bands and “solo” artists, and to see how generations grow up to different kinds of music, which st...