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<p>Two new 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 #13 commemorates Fredric Jameson, the cartographer of late
capitalism.</p>
<p> RRB #14 uses Jameson's 2024 book, The Years of Theory: Postwar
French Thought to the Present, as a starting point from which to
ask: i<span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">s it really the case that theory has been confined to the university while right-wing politicians have been busy learning how to win elections and run the world?</span></p>
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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"
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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
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: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/</a>
Blog posts: 'Radical Open Access III: What Do We Not Think About When We Think About Money?': <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.garyhall.info/journal/2025/4/14/what-do-we-not-think-about-when-we-think-about-money.html">http://www.garyhall.info/journal/2025/4/14/what-do-we-not-think-about-when-we-think-about-money.html</a>
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