Slop Making Sense

The advent of generative AI material – images, videos, music, writing – has yielded the phenomenon of ‘slop’. High resolution on the surface, but low grade in meaning, slop has quickly become a shorthand for terminally empty yet addictive online content. In this conversation between Al Hassan Elwan (a.k.a. POSTPOSTPOST) and internet folklorist Günseli Yalcinkaya, slop is taken apart, as symptom and cause of our current treacherous moment, where the battle for truth and reality is being fought at the frontline of memes, commentary, deepfakes, and slop.