The fifth installment of Dominic Chen’s series Fermentation and Generation: The “Beast Paths” — An Alternative to Information Technology, titled “Resisting the Bullet Point,” has been published in the web magazine Plain living, high thinking.
This article traces the full-scale start of dogfooding Pickles, describing the iterative process of adjusting prompts while reading AI-generated responses delivered each morning. Taking as its point of departure the “dry, bullet-point-laden reports” produced by the initial prompts, the piece interrogates the underlying logic of generative AI that equates clarity with frictionlessness. Rather than asking AI to deliver “correct answers,” the prompts are rewritten from the ground up to introduce productive friction—through the framing of an exchange of letters and a shift toward evocative, non-assertive prose that unsettles memory and invites reflection. The article marks a concrete turning point in exploring how to design circuits of language that cannot be reduced to bullet points.
Fifth article:
5.「箇条書き」に抗う ｜ 発酵と生成の「けもの道」 情報技術のオルタナティブ ｜ ドミニク・チェン ｜ 連載 ｜ 考える人 ｜ 新潮社
情報技術には発酵の時間が足りていないのではないか――。『未来をつくる言葉』（新潮文庫）で、新たな視座を伝えたドミニク・チェンが、AIの時代にあるべき情報技術との付き合い方を問う。自身もSNSをすべて断ち、強い覚悟をもって新しい「情報倫理」の可能性を探る。発酵と生成によって切り拓かれるけもの道。はたしてその先にはどんな風景が待ち受けているのか？ ＊バナーの画像は、人が発酵中の味噌と対話をするためのMisobot（「発酵文化芸術祭 金沢」の展示風景）
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