Writing

Publications

Luke F. Walton's academic papers, and what academics have written about his work. The papers live at Writing → Academic; this page is the reference list. For magazine and radio Q&A see Interviews.

Authored

The Decision No One Authored

The Answerability Gap in Generative AI

Paper · August 2026

A person can retain full control of an AI-shaped decision and still fail to author it — the answerability gap is a missing act of judgment over the evaluative frame.

The Captured Oracle

Authorship and Agency in the Ethics of Answer-Engine Optimization

Paper · July 2026

When an answer engine voices a verdict with no visible author, covert optimization authors the frame — and no one answers for the public that acts on it.

Scholarship on the work

Academic writing about the work — not by Luke, about him.

Masks, Monsters, and Memes

In Conversation with Scoobert Doobert

Max Horwich · Critical Meme Reader: Global Mutations of the Viral Image · 2021

Max Horwich's 2021 book chapter on Scoobert Doobert in the Institute of Network Cultures' Critical Meme Reader, the academic excavation that predates most of this archive.

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