The Information Animal

The Information Animal reframes humans as beings shaped as much by information environments as by physical ones. Alicia Wanless examines how attention, power, and perception are structured by media systems that quietly compete to define reality itself.

For American Cyborg, September turned inward—toward cognition, belief, and meaning. After months focused on ethics and sentience, this text examined the conditions under which humans decide what matters at all. Information, Wanless shows, is not neutral; it is ecological, shaping behavior the way climate shapes terrain.

This month clarified why stewardship must include not just land and labor, but narrative and signal. Intelligence—human or artificial—emerges within environments. September made those environments visible.