FROM “CATHEDRAL OF WIRES”
Sam Altman can build a cathedral of wires and call down GPT-7 like a chrome angel from the bloodless heavens
An excerpt by Jesse Ratner · Photograph by Dan Kutler
The Cage You Carry
Poems by Jesse Ratner × Photographs by Dan Kutler
FROM “OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM”
Confession:
I want to be
free of all this.
An excerpt by Jesse Ratner · Photograph by Dan Kutler
FROM “THE BLAZER”
Then social media arrived and taught addiction how to wear a blazer.
An excerpt by Jesse Ratner · Photograph by Dan Kutler
28 POEMS. 24 PHOTOGRAPHS.
What does it mean to be human in the age of AI?
Jesse Ratner’s poetry meets Dan Kutler’s black-and-white street photography, moving from the addictive theater of social media and professional life into creativity, work, family, inheritance, aging, and mortality. The question running through it all: are our technologies the cage, or have we learned to carry it inside ourselves?
90 pages · 8.25 × 10.25 inches · Softcover
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THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE BOOK
Jesse Ratner
Jesse Ratner is a San Francisco writer exploring identity, ambition, and technology. His novel, The Origins of Anxiety, is a meditation on a 20th-century interracial relationship.
Dan Kutler
Dan Kutler is a San Francisco-based street, travel, portrait and landscape photographer. IG: @dankutlerphotography
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