We’re pleased to share a new review of Digital Schizophrenia & Other Essays by Anne Alombert (Pensées soignées, K. Verlag, forthcoming in May 2025), written by Jason Q Han, a PhD student in the English Department at UW–Madison, in the 15th issue ("Stratum 15") of Alienocene: Journal for the First Outernational.
Han brings a sharp, politically attuned lens to Alombert’s organological and pharmacological critique of AI. Drawing from Bernard Stiegler, Gilbert Simondon, and Georges Canguilhem, the review explores how Alombert reframes AI not as a cognitive problem but as a crisis of collective mind—a domain increasingly colonized by attention economies, persuasive technologies, and metaphors that collapse the human and the machinic.
From digital governmentality to generative AI, Alombert offers a genealogy of the externalized mind and a proposition for technics as symbolic life—not tools for thought but conditions of thinking. Han’s review traces these provocations with clarity and urgency.
Read it in full here: alienocene.com/2025/04/04/digital-schizophrenia-other-essays-by-anne-alombert-k-verlag-pensees-soignees-2025