[spectre] Robot Review of Books #15 and #16: Plurality and Pretentiousness

[Gary Hall]

Another two new reviews have been published this week in the AI magazine 
Robot Review of Books:

https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/

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.'

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.'

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Robot Review of Books:

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

Like the London Review of Books ... but with even more robots!

The Robot Review of Books is an AI ‘magazine’ consisting of short 
computational media essays that are typically structured as book reviews.

  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:
https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/

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


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