The title of this essay series comes from a simple observation. Although we are in deep collaboration with technology, and very much intertwined, ultimately we are alone in our embodiment. And yet we share that aloneness together… the post-digital world is at once hyper-connected and deeply isolating.

Alone, Together is an essay series written as a dialogue. It is not a book about artificial intelligence and it is not a book written with the help of one. It is a sustained conversation between a human writer and an AI interlocutor named Echo, presented close to verbatim, in which the thinking is done in the open and neither party can claim sole authorship of where it arrives. A series of essays that theorizes distributed authorship would contradict itself if it were written in a single voice, so it is not. It is written in two, and the meaning lives in the passing between them.