The second installment of Dominic Chen’s series Fermentation and Generation: The “Beast Paths” — An Alternative to Information Technology, titled “Writing While Making,” has been published in the web magazine Plain living, high thinking.
Taking a personal decision to step away from major SNS platforms—including the deletion of accounts—as its point of departure, the article traces the deep entanglements between information technology and everyday life. Amid production environments accelerated by generative AI, it reexamines how the practice of “thinking and writing while making” can reconfigure the relationship between thought and technology. Rather than organizing reflections after completion, the piece seeks alternative ways of engaging with technology by giving voice to the doubts, tensions, and intensity that arise in the midst of the creative process.
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