Sequence 3 parts 2026

The Work of Wanting

Consumption as labor, fandom as cultural R&D, and AI training as an enclosure of the commons.

  1. The Work of Wanting

    Consumption is not passive.

  2. How a Genre Gets Made

    Fan communities as cultural R&D.

  3. The Corpus and the Enclosure

    AI training makes the metaphor literal.

Start with part 1