Writing

Publications

Scholarly output and academic excavation of Luke F. Walton's research and creative-philosophical work. Authored papers live at Writing → Academic; this page is the bibliography. For magazine and radio Q&A see Interviews.

Authored

The Decision No One Authored

The Answerability Gap in Generative AI

Answerability Quartet · paper 1 · June 2026

Why controlling an AI-shaped decision is not the same as authoring it, and the norm of authorship that closes the answerability gap.

The Captured Oracle

Authorship and Agency in the Ethics of Answer-Engine Optimization

Answerability Quartet · paper 2 · June 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.

The Invariant of Answerability

Answerability Quartet · paper 3 · June 2026

Answerability is route-indefeasible: interposing a machine changes who must answer, not whether an answer is owed.

Building Answerable AI

Why Automation Needs Owned Error

Answerability Quartet · paper 4 · June 2026

The constructive builder response in the Answerability Quartet: answerability as an enabling condition for automation that can compound without drifting.

Scholarship on the work

Academic writing about the research and creative-philosophical frame — not by Luke, but part of the scholarly record around it.

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.