[spectre] Robot Review of Books - #13 & #14: Fredric Jameson and The Years of Theory

[Gary Hall]

Two new contributions to the Robot Review of Books:

https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/

RRB #13 commemorates Fredric Jameson, the cartographer of late capitalism.

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: is 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?

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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

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