{"id":9290,"date":"2024-10-10T08:44:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T12:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=9290"},"modified":"2024-10-10T08:44:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T12:44:57","slug":"goodbye-rough-type-hello-new-cartographies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=9290","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Rough Type, Hello New Cartographies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rough Type has had a twenty-year run. That seems like long enough, particularly seeing as the blog has been pretty much dormant in recent years. So this will be the last Rough Type post.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t shed too many tears. I&#8217;m going to continue blogging, maybe even at a faster clip, through a Substack I&#8217;ve started called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcartographies.com\">New Cartographies<\/a>. My first new post is up. It&#8217;s titled &#8220;Dead Labor, Dead Speech,&#8221; and here&#8217;s how it begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If, as Marx argued, capital is dead labor, then the products of large language models might best be understood as dead speech. Just as factory workers produce, with their \u201cliving labor,\u201d machines and other forms of physical capital that are then used, as \u201cdead labor,\u201d to produce more physical commodities, so human expressions of thought and creativity\u2014\u201cliving speech\u201d in the forms of writing, art, photography, and music\u2014become raw materials used to produce \u201cdead speech\u201d in those same forms. LLMs, to continue with Marx\u2019s horror-story metaphor, feed \u201cvampire-like\u201d on human culture. Without our words and pictures and songs, they would cease to function. They would become as silent as a corpse in a casket.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcartographies.com\/p\/dead-labor-dead-speech\">Read on<\/a> (and thanks).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rough Type has had a twenty-year run. That seems like long enough, particularly seeing as the blog has been pretty much dormant in recent years. So this will be the last Rough Type post. But don&#8217;t shed too many tears. I&#8217;m going to continue blogging, maybe even at a faster clip, through a Substack I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9291,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290\/revisions\/9291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}