What does collective memory feel like in the “mind” of a large language model? In the recent proliferation of AI research, terms like source amnesia, hallucination, and cognitive dissonance travel from neuroscientific and psychological contexts into computer science. These kinds of terms suggest that mathematical systems might mirror human mental landscapes, modes of perception, and even emotional processing. Like conscious subjects with emotions, large language models and their predecessors — archives — each have their own inherited, peculiar ways of thinking that tangle the way they represent the world. If our own experiences shape how we remember the past, we might ask: What haunts the memory of the archive?

Drawing on the work of Jamaican writer and philosopher Sylvia Wynter, these weaving stories sessions focus on her concept of the plot as a historical material space, a narrative technology, and a practice of being human. Session 2 features invited guest collaborator Daniel Loick, and explores one of the central mechanisms through which this genre of the human is reproduced: property. What might a city without property look like? What would it mean to rethink, rather than reform, housing? How would relations between people, labour, and land change if rent and the appropriation of housing were abolished?

We will reflect on the gap between accessibility as a lived and negotiated praxis, and the ways it is commonly institutionalised. We will explore the moments where accessibility goes beyond checklists and protocols: when it becomes unstable and inconvenient, when different access needs rub against one another, or when a space requires ongoing collective attunement. Drawing on Lauren Berlant and Aimi Hamraie’s work, participants will think through how these frictions and forms of inconvenience make visible how we are organised around norms, temporalities, and expectations.