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<p>Announcing three new reviews in the AI 'magazine' Robot Review of
Books:<br>
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href="https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/">https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/</a></p>
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<p>RRB #17 I’m Like a PDF But a Girl: Girlblogging as a Nomadic
Pedagogy by Ester Freider</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p>RRB #18 On Giving Up by Adam Phillips - Part I: On Curiosity</p>
<p>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? </p>
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<p>RRB #19 On Giving Up by Adam Phillips - Part II: On Aliveness </p>
<p>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? </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"
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>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. </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
Director of Open Humanities Press: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org</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>
Journal issue: Ecologies of Dissemination issue of PARSE Journal #21 - Summer 2025, edited by Eva Weinmayr and Femke Snelting: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://parsejournal.com/journal/#ecologies-of-dissemination">https://parsejournal.com/journal/#ecologies-of-dissemination</a>. (I'm one of the contributors to this experimental issue which emphasizes collective over individual authorship.)
Video: 'Liquidate AI Art', Computer Arts Society: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/october/webinar-liquidate-ai-art">https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/october/webinar-liquidate-ai-art</a>
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