[spectre] On Girlblogging and Giving Up: Three new reviews in the Robot Review of Books

[Gary Hall]

Announcing three new reviews in the AI 'magazine' Robot Review of Books:

https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/


RRB #17 I’m Like a PDF But a Girl: Girlblogging as a Nomadic Pedagogy by 
Ester Freider

I'm Like a PDF But a Girl explores girlblogging culture as a 
transformative form of cyberfeminist pedagogy. Blending literary 
analysis, digital ethnography and personal experience, Freider reframes 
Tumblr as a living research field. Girlblogging here is not a frivolous 
pastime: it’s a form of pirate feminism, a radical engagement with 
information's transformative potential.


RRB #18 On Giving Up by Adam Phillips - Part I: On Curiosity

In On Giving Up, Adam Phillips suggests that to feel alive we must 
relinquish our ‘habitual tactics and techniques’ for deadening 
ourselves. His book can be read as an invitation to notice not just what 
we give up but also what we cling to. Yet what does Phillips himself 
cling to in the very act of writing about giving up?


RRB #19 On Giving Up by Adam Phillips - Part II: On Aliveness

What alternative experiments in writing and publishing today embody what 
Phillips insists we need: ways of sustaining aliveness in writing, 
publishing, and thinking, the ‘true antidote to giving up’? 
Computational books? Processual books? Robot reviews of books?


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Robot Review of Books:

https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/ 
<https://archive.org/details/no-1-rrb-introduction-v-2>

The Robot Review of Books is an AI ‘magazine’ consisting of short 
computational media essays that are typically structured as book 
reviews. Think of it as a 21st century version of the London Review of 
Books - although in being presented by AI avatars it’s the first of its 
kind.

  Free: No subscriptions, no paywalls.

  Non-Surveillance Capitalist: Viewer privacy is respected with no 
collection, storage or sale of personal data.

  Quiet: No hype, no appeals for likes, shares or follows.

The RRB has a bibliodiverse editorial policy that takes in works from 
alternative, independent and open access publishers, not just legacy 
print presses, in an attempt to avoid repeating the same old 
pre-programmed ideas and patterns of behaviour. This policy extends from 
material published by ‘professional’ entities in authoritative formats, 
such as books and journal articles, through that made available more 
informally using blogs, websites and newsletters, to experiments with 
collaborative publishing platforms, so-called internet piracy and 
beyond. Both established knowledges and those that are perhaps 
considered a little strange when measured against the dominant criteria 
of the Euro-Western university are part of this bibliodiversity. Texts 
authored substantially by AI, for example.


-- 
Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University

Director of Open Humanities Press:http://www.openhumanitiespress.org 
Blog:http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/

Latest:

Book: Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence:http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/

Journal issue: Ecologies of Dissemination issue of PARSE Journal #21 - Summer 2025, edited by Eva Weinmayr and Femke Snelting:https://parsejournal.com/journal/#ecologies-of-dissemination. (I'm one of the contributors to this experimental issue which emphasizes collective over individual authorship.)

Video: 'Liquidate AI Art', Computer Arts Society:https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/october/webinar-liquidate-ai-art




















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