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<p>Another two new reviews have been published this week in the AI
magazine Robot Review of Books:<br>
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href="https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/">https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/</a></p>
<p>RRB #15 looks at Plurality: The Future of Collaborative
Technology and Democracy by E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang and
Community. 'A timely exploration of how collaborative technology
can transform democratic governance, as many advanced economies
pivot from neoliberalism toward a post-neoliberal industrial
policy.'<br>
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<p>RRB #16 reviews Pretentiousness: Why It Matters by Dan Fox. 'It's
tempting to say that Dan Fox’s Pretentiousness isn’t just an
analysis of pretension and why it matters it is also an instance
of it. Yet far from being too pretentious, Pretentiousness isn’t
pretentious enough.'<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
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>
Blog: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/">http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/</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: 'The Commons vs Creative Commons II: On the Undercommons, Latent Commons and Uncommons': <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2025/6/23/the-commons-vs-creative-commons-ii-on-the-undercommons-laten.html">http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2025/6/23/the-commons-vs-creative-commons-ii-on-the-undercommons-laten.html</a>
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