Interminable Flights

Stochastic Histories

Against Critical AI Art

Nov 7 • 

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July 2025

Humanity and Its Double: The Uncanny in Art and Artificial Intelligence

Go ahead, skip this introduction, and read my essay below.

Jul 27 • 

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June 2025

The Rise and Fall of the Author

From Divine Inspiration to Artificial Intelligence

Jun 16 • 

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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).

May 19 • 

Kazys Varnelis

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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…

May 6 • 

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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.

May 1 • 

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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.

Apr 22 • 

Kazys Varnelis

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The Generative Turn: On AIs as Stochastic Parrots and Art

A clunky title, but, I trust, not a clunky essay.

Apr 14 • 

Kazys Varnelis

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After the Infrastructural City: On Abundance

My review of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's Abundance.

Apr 7 • 

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March 2025

The New Surrealism? on AI and Hallucinations

Two things.

Mar 31 • 

Kazys Varnelis

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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…

Mar 21 • 

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skunk cabbage and the entropic landscape

from the florilegium at highland house, a native plant gardener's logbook

Mar 16 • 

Kazys Varnelis

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