Latest / ArTEEtude: Art, culture and the creative mind. Never so close again. - with Detlef Schlich
#Arteetude 330 - Detlef Schlich and his AI co-host Sophia, explore the structural parallels between the Indulgence Slip, the Printing Press, and AI. Closing song: Los Inorgánicos – “Printed Salvation, Relief Engine”
In this episode of Arteetude, I explore a media-archaeological question that reaches from the age of the printing press into the age of artificial intelligence: what happens when a medium does not simply spread information, but begins to standardise relief?Starting with the indulgence slip, I look at how the Church, through print, was able to reproduce not only doctrine, but also a scalable format of spiritual reassurance — a printed mechanism through which guilt, fear, hope, and authority could be organised, distributed, and monetised. The indulgence slip becomes, in this reading, more than…
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