Essays & notes
Occasional essays on artificial intelligence and power, community and climate, generative art and interaction — written by Alexander, often in collaboration with AI.
Editorial note
Writing has always been part of the work — to test an argument, to make a position legible, or to think through a problem that a paper cannot hold. These essays are occasional: they appear when something needs saying. Alexander writes them, often in collaboration with AI tools for drafting, editing and revision; he directs the work and signs off on the published text.
All essays
December 1, 2025
Power structures do not disappear; they gain new layers. A close reading of Yanis Varoufakis’s technofeudalism — landlords, capitalists, platform lords and AI sovereigns — and a strategy for building a fifth layer: the commons.
June 9, 2025
Wir stehen am Abgrund, und ein Großteil von uns kneift die Augen fest zusammen. Warum basisdemokratische Oasen unsere beste Chance gegen Kollaps und Faschismus sind.
June 8, 2025
AI is concentrating knowledge, tools and process in the hands of a few — while making it harder for the rest of us to learn, write and think for ourselves. A declaration of human autonomy.
June 8, 2022
An interactive model between painter and machine, trained on 1,000 paintings by Steffen Terk — a machine that mirrors and multiplies an artist’s visual language.