Erato Vaitsi, Author at Inter

Artificial Intelligence: The Distortion of Our Sense of Reality and Our Loss of Freedom

By Erato Vaitsi Illustration by Taylor Brunnschweiler Nowadays, our senses are being altered, and are in a constant limbo of what is real and what is not. This distortion of our senses, and thus reality, is unfolding because of Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI can generally be understood as “technology that enables computers to perform tasks…

The Ending of the End: Capitalist Realism in Shambles

By Erato Vaitsi Illustration by Taylor Brunnschweiler Mark Fisher was a cultural critic and theorist, who drew inspiration from Deleuze and Guattari (Seaton, 2021). The concept which he is most famous for is capitalist realism, which captures both the sense that capitalism is the only viable political and economic system, and the impossibility of imagining…