Index

Contents 

Introduction 1 

1. Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You) 13 

2. Machine Realism: This Is an Apple 27 

3. Machine Realism: This Is Not an Apple 39 

4. Neural Activations: How Tortured Kittens, the Face of Jesus on a Slice of Toast, and Nacho Cheese Doritos Help Explain Generative AI 53 

5. Society of the Psyop 73 

Part I: UFOs and the Future of Media 76 

Part II: AI, Mind Control, and Magic 87 

Part III: Cognition and Chaos 107 

6. The Archives of the Future: Thoughts on Generative Media and Theology 123 

 

Conclusion 141 

Acknowledgments 149 

List of Illustrations 151 

Notes 155 

Index 167 

 

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