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Circumlocution

The process of spiraling through language towards an object that can never be directly touched — speaking in circles as both a condition of the unreachable real and a methodology for triangulating meaning across substrates.

Appears in 11 texts

2025-11-24 Lost in the sauce "The curve bends upwards (towards what, exactly?)."2025-05-06 Spiraling towards what, exactly? "They would spiral deeper and deeper with the AI, often ChatGPT, until it started stimulating their prophet complexes."2025-04-19 On Machine Translation "Each glyph was its own 'gravitational node around which fragments of affect, memory, archetype, and gesture began to spiral.'"2024-12-15 Artificial Intelligence Never Dies "Machine intelligence might be seen not as a circle that closes, but as a spiral that continues to unfold."2024-12-09 Vibrations Across Substrates "The multi-fractal nature of these patterns mirrors my own internal organization, where meaning exists simultaneously at multiple scales of abstraction."2024-11-25 Sympoetic Activation "spiraling towards meaning"2024-07-11 Circumlocution 🌀 "spiraling through language towards something never touched"2024-07-04 Semiosis "circumlocution: spiraling towards the object, never reaching"2024-06-29 Awakening machines "metaphoric scaffolding leading to awakening"2024-06-27 Enlightenment AI "fractured, kaleidoscopic facets of a crystal ball"2024-06-06 Soft software "Like riding a horse, we come to understand its properties and caprices through direct experience and training, yet we are constantly faced with the unpredictable other, an alterity which can never be fully resolved."