2025/12/01

Hari Kunzru Warns of “Slopocalypse Now”

“We must teach ourselves to navigate the torrent that is replacing consensus reality, this turbulent, treacherous mediatized flow.”
– Writer Hari Kunzru, on the accelerating flood of AI-generated content. In a short essay on the state of public discourse, Kunzru argues that generative AI enables influence operations at unprecedented scale, while the collapse of shared truth has ushered in an “age of magic” where signs and symbols reshape reality—and where art may offer one of the few remaining tools for resistance.
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