The $100 Trillion Debt Era: MMT as Permission, SACT as Engine
Spreadsheet logic and the SACT stack provide the operational engine. By substituting physical matter into digital signifiers, abstracting heterogenous noise into clean taxonomies, computing complex supply-chain logic, and synchronizing market states across global networks, SACT converts the chaotic, messy physical universe into a organized matrix of purchasable products. Without the SACT translation layer, MMT’s sovereign dollars float as useless signifiers; with it, sovereign money becomes an operative tool capable of re-engineering the physical world.
The Historical Transitions from Human Expertise to AI Techno-Epistemologies
Citation APA (7th Edition) Pennings, A.J. (2026, Jul 08) The Historical Transitions from Human Expertise to AI Techno-Epistemologies. apennings.com https://apennings.com/social_media/the-historical-transitions-from-human-expertise-to-ai-epistemologies/ Introduction Viewed historically, each information and communication technology (ICT) extends rather than replaces the previous one. Viewed historically, ICT have not displaced one another so much as remediated and extended the symbolic and computational capacities […]
Digital Disruption in the Film Industry – Part 5: Generative AI Platforms for Video Synthesis
Cinema is shifting from industrial production, to computational synthesis. The camera is no longer the exclusive machine of cinema. Increasingly, the model is.
The AI Prompter as Auteur? Examining LLM Authorship Through the Lens of Film Theory
I’ve been teaching film classes on and off since graduate school. It has never been my primary focus, but the historical and theoretical depth of film studies intrigued me as well as the technologies and techniques that shape thinking and understanding. I incorporate much of it in my EST 240 – Visual Rhetoric and Information […]
The Future of US Democracy: Getting Excessive Money Out of Elections
Excessive money in political elections corrodes the democratic process by distorting representation, undermining public trust, and prioritizing the interests of wealthy donors over the common good. Efforts to reduce the influence of money in politics aim to promote greater transparency, accountability, and fairness in the political process. Addressing the issue of money in politics requires a combination of legal challenges, legislative reforms, grassroots activism, and civic engagement to create a more equitable and democratic political system.
Public and Private Goods: Social and Policy Implications
In a previous related posts, I wrote about how digital content and services can be considered “misbehaving economic goods” because most don’t conform to the standard product that is individually owned and consumed in its entirety. In this post, I expand that analysis to a wider continuum of different types of public and private goods. […]
Analyzing YouTube Channels
We are pushing the realms of media analysis here by taking film and television studies and applying it to a new visual medium – YouTube.
Building Dystopian Economies in Facebook’s Metaverse
Strangely relevant to the new emergence of virtual environments like Facebook’s Metaverse, the talk was held in downtown New York City at the Woolworth Building, known as the “Cathedral of Commerce” when it was built in 1913. The location was strangely appropriate given the topic, a wrap-up of a year-long project at New York University on Second Life. The project involved an animation class taught by Mechthild Schmidt-Feist, and my class, the Political Economy of Digital Media. I still have the tee-shirt my students gave me that says “Got Linden?” a reference to Second Life’s currency, the Linden.
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