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<p>Just letting you know about two recent contributions to the Robot
Review of Books:<br>
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href="https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/">https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/</a></p>
<p>RRB #9 looks at Pirate Enlightenment by David Graeber. A
thrilling examination of pirate utopianism, Graeber’s experiment
in historical writing shows how many of the political ideas we
associate with the Enlightenment had their origins outside of the
Western Tradition.<br>
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<p>RRB #10 focuses on Literary Theory for Robots by Dennis Yi Tenen.
A software engineer-turned-literature professor, Tenen examines
the automation of writing, tracing its ‘hidden’ history to provide
a powerful explanation of how contemporary AI has come into being.
Is Tenen able to actually assume the implications of his theory
for the institutional conditions of his own practice, though?<br>
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<p>Robot Review of Books: </p>
<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/no-1-rrb-introduction-v-2"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"
class="status-link unhandled-link"
title="https://archive.org/details/no-1-rrb-introduction-v-2"><span
class="invisible">https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/</span></a></p>
<p>Like the London Review of Books ... but with even more robots!</p>
<p>The Robot Review of Books is an AI ‘magazine’ consisting of short
computational media essays that are typically structured as book
reviews.</p>
<p> Free: No subscriptions, no paywalls.</p>
<p> Non-Surveillance Capitalist: Viewer privacy is respected with no
collection, storage or sale of personal data.</p>
<p> Quiet: No hype, no appeals for likes, shares or follows.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/">https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/</a>
Director of Open Humanities Press: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org</a>
Website <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.garyhall.info">http://www.garyhall.info</a>
Latest:
Book: Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence (in press): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/">https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/</a>
Journal article: 'Culture and the University as White, Male, Liberal Humanist, Public Space', New Formations: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformations/vol-2023-issue-110/abstract-9912/">https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformations/vol-2023-issue-110/abstract-9912/</a> (Open access pre-print available here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/publications/culture-and-the-university-as-white-male-public-liberal-humanist">https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/publications/culture-and-the-university-as-white-male-public-liberal-humanist</a>-.)
Blog post: 'What if Marx had had ChatGPT?': <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2024/8/29/what-if-marx-had-had-chatgpt-revolutionising-philosophy-just.html">http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2024/8/29/what-if-marx-had-had-chatgpt-revolutionising-philosophy-just.html</a>
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