Posts By: Klaudia Orczykowska

OUT NOW! TOD #61 | The Many Faces of Data Access: Legal and Policy Implications for Research

By Klaudia Orczykowska, April 16, 2026

Theory on Demand #61     The Many Faces of Data Access: Legal and Policy Implications for Research Edited by Jef Ausloos & Siddharth Peter de Souza This last volume in the INC Theory on Demand series provides an interdisciplinary critique of regulation and, in the process, opens the ‘black box’ of technology companies to [...]

OUT NOW! TOD59 | Henry Warwick: Paritance: A Philosophical Investigation Behind Cognition and Simulation

By Klaudia Orczykowska, November 22, 2025

Theory on Demand #59      Paritance: A Philosophical Investigation Behind Cognition and Simulation By Henry Warwick This work advances the idea of Paritance—the acceptance of parity—as a funda­mental operation of human cognition and culture. Warwick argues that the capacity to recognize a copy, model, or simulation as ontologically sufficient to its referent underlies cultural [...]

that’s not real 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽𝓼𝓷𝓸𝓽𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓵 that’s 𝒩♡𝒯 R E A L omg ♥IT♥IS♥REAL♥

By Klaudia Orczykowska, October 29, 2025

I repeat this as a mantra while on the 51 train to my 9-to-5. Frosty af, but at least my shoes are cozy. I take this train like, 4 days a week, and they STILL haven’t fixed the escalator after 3 months. I’m hoping AI takes THAT job, not mine. Mind your steps, fr. It’s [...]

I at once grew closer to it and more skeptical of it

By Klaudia Orczykowska, April 22, 2025

“I at once grew closer to it and more skeptical of it.”–Mike Pepi   I’m trying to make sense of the complex systems that accompany my experience of reality–everyday & everywhere–and I mean two things in particular: internet and my (human) (sub- and conscious) mind.  In an age dominated by digital platforms, we find ourselves [...]