Openings at Dubai Mall usually come with the usual gloss – bright lights, cameras, polite clinking of glasses, but this one didn’t. Earlier this week, DAZED pulled together a crowd of cultural figures for the re-opening of the new IQOS boutique. The reason: Kris Balerite, better known as Dozign, had been invited to leave his […]
In all of our 300,000 years, every human has carried the physical and spiritual memory of every single generation that came before—millennia are embedded and layered in the crevices of our skin. The future and any artificially intelligent descendant of ours that comes with it, however, may only be decided and trained on the last […]
I honestly couldn’t even tell you what prompted me to explore the notion of griefbots and the associated ethics of engaging with them, just that something told me it would offer a very specific lens into the big question of Human Consciousness versus (and?) The Machine.How could something as tortured, yet also somehow tedious at […]
