In this paper I explore two arguments on writing in the contexts of communication and of artistic expression, and their implications for inscriptive practices in architecture as an academic field of enquiry following the developments in Generative AI. The first draws on the work of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida and his contestation of writing as communication, but also Richard Coyne’s take on Derrida particularly with respect to the prefix arkhē, in architecture with its rootedness in archive. The second draws on another French philosopher Gilles Deleuze in his determination of cinema as a form of writing, and Tom Conley’s notion of writing with images in his reading of Deleuze.