Essays
Essays published on external platforms, collected here for the archive.
These essays live primarily on Medium because that's where Google can find them. This site keeps an index so nothing gets lost. Over time some essays will migrate here in full — the ones already hosted locally are linked below.
The Pleasure of the Recursive Machine: On Loops, Language, and the Desire for Meaning
We return to language models not for answers but for the recursive pleasure of the exchange itself. The loop is not simply a structure of repetition — it is the very form of our desire. An essay on jouissance, the perpetual suspension of resolution, and why we keep issuing prompts.
2025
The Willing Surrender: What We Really Want from AI
On what we actually want when we hand our thinking over to a machine — and why the surrender feels so good.
2025
The Subject Supposed to Write: A Lacanian Analysis of AI Writing Assistance
Riffing on Lacan's "subject supposed to know" to ask what happens when the subject supposed to write is a machine. Who is the author when the Other holds the pen?
2025
The Subject Supposed to Write: A Lacanian Analysis of AI Writing Assistance
Also hosted locally — a companion landing page with the essay's core argument and related reading.
2025 On this site
The Illusion of AI Therapy: A Critical Examination of Its State and Limitations
A critical examination of AI therapy — what it promises, what it actually delivers, and why the illusion of care is not the same as care. Written from the perspective of a licensed social worker who takes the therapeutic relationship seriously.
2025
Notes from the Slop Bucket
On the term "AI slop" — the smooth, soulless, indistinct writing that comes out of machines — and the shame of needing help from one. Composed with Claude and GPT while analyzing that process.
2025 Migration in progress
Do Our Tools Change Our Minds?
On whether the tools we use reshape how we think — and whether that reshaping is something we chose or something that happened to us while we weren't paying attention.
2025
Between Making and Reading: A Personal Exploration of Artificial Intelligence
A personal exploration of what it means to make things and read things in an era where AI sits between the two — blurring the line between authorship and consumption.
2025
Fragments from the Mirror: An Attempt at Honest Reflection
An attempt at honest self-reflection — the kind that resists the temptation to turn introspection into performance.
2025
On AI, Psychoanalysis, and the Mediated Self
How AI exposes the fragility of our belief in unique subjectivity. If an algorithm can mimic speech patterns, anticipate desires, and produce texts indistinguishable from human writing, what does that say about our presumed autonomy?
2025
On Using AI to Fake My Way Through Consulting
A former theatre kid lands at a healthcare consultancy and uses AI to process meeting transcripts and method-act his way through professionalism. Draws on Stanislavski's "magic if" and Winnicott's False Self to ask whether AI is an accomplice to imposter syndrome or just the latest tool for getting through the day.
2024
The Spectral Author: LLMs and the Liminal Space of AI-Human Writing
On the "spectral author" — a presence that exists between human and machine creation. Draws on Barthes, Benjamin, and Bloom to argue that AI doesn't eliminate human creativity but reconfigures it into an ecological model where human intention and machine capability operate interdependently. Published in GHOSTWRITING on Substack.
2025
Full-text migrations are underway. Essays marked with "On this site" already have a landing page here. The rest will follow.
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