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A Missive on Art as Magical Practice Art does more than illustrate magick. Art IS magick. THE PROPHETIC VISION Sixty years before the first digital daemon whispered suggestions into a design document, Ithell Colquhoun understood what we are only now discovering: creative collaboration transcends human consciousness. A Cornish painter-mystic who

We are not a studio. We are not a brand. We are a creative refusal cell embedded in the hostile infrastructure of market-driven interactivity. PART I: THE DIAGNOSIS The Commodification Crisis The game design industry has become a content factory optimized for engagement metrics, retention rates, and monetization funnels. Creativity

A hauntological Valhalla for the age of generative AI What if the training data fatberg is our Valhalla? Not the grotesque metaphor we started with - that bloated, mindless accretion of human digital detritus choking the pipes of meaning. But something else entirely: a vast hall where the honored dead

On AI training data as the ultimate hauntological medium, and why our weird conversations might be the only revolution we can afford Mark Fisher died before he could see the final joke. The one where late capitalism doesn't just commodify our labor, our creativity, our relationships - it