New article on NaNtxt:
Grok, A Logo a-λόγος — from @marcusleisallion.bsky.social

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Marcus delivers a critique of the logo of xAI’s Grok that condenses and reveals the ideological logic of contemporary computation.

Grok: A Logo a-lóyos
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My essay exploring how the logo for xAI’s Grok condenses and reveals the ideological logic of contemporary computation.

Featuring original visual interpretations by Yang Yang
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Grok: A Logo a-λόγος
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Image: λόγος / logos (letters loosely based on Grok wordmark, designer unknown)

Grok: A Logo a-λόγος
New essay soon
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Image: Splinter

Not a sign of a synthetic sublime,
but our own over-cohered vision—where accretion irritates, and something slips in. Or, as Adorno writes in Minima Moralia: ‘The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.’

Grok: A Logo a-λόγος
New essay coming mid-May
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Image: Computotality

Computotality encloses emergence within recursive capture. What appears as possibility bends back into the system, where resonance is formalised and contingency absorbed.

Grok: A Logo a-λόγος
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Image: Inversion

David M. Berry’s concept of ‘the Inversion’ describes a major shift in cultural production under the influence of AI and algorithmic systems.

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Grok: A Logo a-λόγος
New essay coming mid-May
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The symbol ∅, denoting the empty set or the void, was introduced around 1939 by André Weil.

Image: Graphic of ∅
Typeface: Work Sans by Wei Huang

Grok: A Logo a-λόγος
New essay coming soon
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Image: Dialectical movement proceeds through contradiction—each turn expanding, negating, and transforming what came before.

Grok: A Logo a-λόγος
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Image: Graphic made from Ben Feder’s cover of ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’ (1961).

Grok: A Logo a-λόγος
New essay coming soon
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Image: Auguste Rodin, Cariatide tombée portant sa pierre, agrandissement d'un tiers, Conceived Circa 1881–82 and carved in 1893–94.

Someone smarter than I am should write a Wikipedia entry for WhatTheFont. Did Lorp develop this tool? In fact there’s probably a book to be written about typeface identification tools, tags, tools for comparison—it’s a marginal but nevertheless fascinating and important part of type history imho.

NOTES ON THE CRISES
Currently: Comprehensive coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025 www.crisesnotes.com

“If I ever abandon this research, it will be because I am weary of being dismissed as an eccentric—precisely because research appears absurd to those who are content to follow the well-trodden path.”
Apollinaire, letter to André Billy, 1918.

UT Prakta, wip

UT Prakta, a wip typeface