The Writer and the Brain

Writers Should Play With Dolls

Sorry to get all Borges on you again, but one of the things that he taught me is that you can take religion and other complex systems and play with the…

Mar 18 • Daniel Chacón

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February 2026

November 2025

Barton College Lecture

The Writer and the Brain

Nov 20, 2025 • Daniel Chacón

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The Hidden Grammar of Repetition

The Writer and the Occult

Nov 13, 2025 • Daniel Chacón

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October 2025

Language Is a Strange Loop

Ok, so humans used to remember phone numbers, a lot of them, but today most of us remember very few, because we have outsourced memory to our devices.

Oct 31, 2025 • Daniel Chacón

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Creativity Can Save the World

Audio excerpt from a longer talk

Oct 30, 2025 • Daniel Chacón

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September 2025

You Think It's All About You!

and it kind of is

Sep 23, 2025 • Daniel Chacón

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Language Becomes Electric

Cancel culture isn’t left or right anymore — it’s everywhere. And we need to talk about it.

Sep 22, 2025 • Daniel Chacón

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August 2025

HOW THE LICK DID LICK KNOW?

“Human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought.

Aug 25, 2025 • Daniel Chacón

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July 2025

Three Oranges

Lorca, Literature, and the Walmart El Paso Shootings

Jul 27, 2025 • Daniel Chacón

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Banana for Breakfast: A Poem About a Poem About Language Machines

“Whoever controls LLMs controls politics.” —Hannes Bajohr

Jul 25, 2025 • Daniel Chacón

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This Is Not an Original Essay

Ceci n’est pas un essai original

Jul 20, 2025 • Daniel Chacón

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