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In addition to the structural consciousness of the smart home, activated by my functional consciousness, there can be the creative, phantasmal consciousness, given free play by my sensory imagination and expressed and merged with flexible phantasmal media applications.

“The first casualty of war is the truth.” The new formulation: The first casualty of post-truth is the post-war or hyper-war calamity. It is the fractal, viral, pandemic-like catastrophe spreading in all directions like a cancerous metastasis once known as war.

We can become AI: think, speak, and act like AI. Then we are not only offloading our intelligence and creativity to AI; we are learning from the patterns of that “other” or “alien” intelligence. By meeting the AI in the middle and mimicking it, we co-create a hybrid expressivity or computational aesthetics.

This is a revised version of the text that I read aloud at the memorial service honoring Jerry Kogan in early 2014. About 200 people who knew and loved Jerry were in attendance.

Here I will post comments about “Venice in Las Vegas” as they come in.

On October 31, 2025, I was a keynote speaker at the conference on “Media and Communication” at the University of Sakarya, Turkey. On November 4, 2025, I was a keynote speaker at the conference on Turkish cinema at the same university.