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May 2025

On Russel Wright’s Manitoga and the Mid-Century American Landscape
We had a beautiful day at Manitoga on Friday with the Native Plant Society of New Jersey (of which I am the President).
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the First Flowers of Spring: Hepatica, Rue Anemone, and Culture Ecology
I still have the next installment of the Skeptic’s Guide to AI and Art queued up, but for now, the rain makes me think of my garden and I wanted to…
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On the Golden Age of Blogging
We stopped for lunch at a Connecticut rest stop on the way out to Rhode Island two weekends ago and I ate at Chipotle.
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April 2025

The Phantasmagoria of the Landscape: Japanese Gardens in America
After two posts on art and AI and two on economic transitions in the age of AI, it’s time for a lengthier Florilegium essay.
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The Generative Turn: On AIs as Stochastic Parrots and Art
A clunky title, but, I trust, not a clunky essay.
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After the Infrastructural City: On Abundance
My review of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's Abundance.
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March 2025

The New Surrealism? on AI and Hallucinations
Two things.
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national populism as a transitional mode of regulation
This is a bit more theoretical, quite a contrast to the last piece on skunk cabbage, but that’s the nature of the Interminable Flights Substack and…
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skunk cabbage and the entropic landscape
from the florilegium at highland house, a native plant gardener's logbook
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The City and the Fog
An experiment, of sorts
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February 2025

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