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17NOV22 / accessions
Bit of feminist social history, why not? Three copies, because I volunteered to do a bulk order for what will be the next title tackled by our casual book group. Hoping that reading a non-fiction piece will somewhat reduce my tendency to ramble on about technique and narratology… but based on previous form, it’s not…
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don’t tell me what to do, show me
Adam Roberts responds here to a tweet by Tade Thompson which (to be very reductive) argues for a full reversal of the old “show, don’t tell” edict, beating up on which seems to have become something of a shibboleth of the online writing community in recent times. In his sometimes Bartleby-ish way, Roberts rejects this…
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hurry up and wait
In response to a question from L____, I decided that I’m not really sure how I’m feeling at the moment—which is less due to any lack of feeling or insight, and more due to a scrum of competing feelings and concerns, some of which have hung in the balance for the better part of a…
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artificial intelligence and the (post-)apocalyptic imaginary
An interesting and strident talk last night from academic AI critic Teresa Heffernan at the wonderfully zeitgeisty Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic Studies at Heidelburg: Veterans of AI discourse may not find much that’s new to them in here, but I found her points regarding the necessity of maintaining and reinforcing the distinction…
Who is Paul Graham Raven?
“… who, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with [his] voice, thanks to the god in [him].”