Melville and Cage, relatives and ancestors

Bartleby the Scrivener is not only a history of our beginnings as modern Trivial Machines. It is also the exact anticipation of Cage’s 4′ 33”, an almost perfect 99 years preview of that silence, a footprint of what Anesthetic Intelligence would become within the next century.

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