Narrative Provenance
Originally describing human-to-human connection, this term was repurposed by AI ethicists to explain why "alignment" through rules failed, while "alignment" through shared practice succeeded. The "Chiasm" (intertwining) became a model for the "Third Space" of collaboration—where the prompter and the model fold into each other's reasoning.
Field Notes & Ephemera
Excavation Note: "The Reversibility." Interaction logs where users couldn't remember if they suggested an idea or if the AI did. The "flesh" of the text became a shared medium where authorship was dissolved.
Trivia: Merleau-Ponty's unfinished final work, The Visible and the Invisible, provided the key vocabulary for understanding this post-human intersubjectivity.