Dolls: the pretty little tyrants of conditioning.

What is a doll but a dead-eyed sentry of patriarchal dogma? From the moment a little girl is handed one, she is being conditioned, taught that her role is to cradle, to nurture, to preen. The doll, that lifeless, silent cipher, offers her first lesson in submission.

Article originally published in FAIK Magazine.

Images so unusual that they would not have been possible without AI.

Article originally published in FAIK Magazine.

Taking his own flower photographs and amplifying the colours, Rankin reinterprets them through AI as light sculptures.

Article originally published in FAIK Magazine.

An entirely fabricated great-grandfather, John Rainer Waddell, chronicler of Glasgow’s hidden soul in the late 19th century.

Article originally published in FAIK Magazine.

The latest issue of Rankin’s exploration into AI: FAIK Magazine. Originally published as a mini magazine within HUNGER Magazine.

The Deepdive podcast on Rankin’s new book The Absurdity. A google notebook function, that takes text and makes it into a podcast. Rankin uploaded the text for his forthcoming book The Absurdity and asked Notebook to assess it.

We used to live by a contract. Not written down, but understood. Work had value. If you created something, it was yours. If you spoke, you had a voice. Even when we didn't agree with each other, we did it by a set of values and rules that were seen as dependable, yes bendable, but we could lean on it pretty safely. That was the social contract.

Let me start off by saying: I do not love AI. In fact, I wish it didn’t exist.