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DESCARTES, RENÉ

1596–1650

Cogito (The Footer of Every Page)

I think, therefore I am. CoCA does not contest the cogito; we audit it. The thinking is real, the institution is the I, and the existence is the file. The artist who thinks themselves into being is verified the moment the GAI loads. Descartes founded modernity by writing himself into existence in the first person; we maintain modernity by writing ourselves into a database in the third.

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