MachineMachine /stream - search for book https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[Virtual Girl Nem's "Metaverse Evolution Theory" Intro Published in English]]> https://vtubernewsdrop.com/virtual-girl-nem-metaverse-evolution-theory-intro-english/

The introduction to the book Metaverse Evolution Theory by Japanese VTuber and writer Virtual Girl Nem has now been published in English. The 5,000-word introduction is available at her official Medium page, and aimed at generating discussion about her book in the English-speaking community.

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Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:27:36 -0700 https://vtubernewsdrop.com/virtual-girl-nem-metaverse-evolution-theory-intro-english/
<![CDATA[“There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New Suns”: Recovering Octavia E. Butler’s Lost Parables | Los Angeles Review of Books]]> https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/theres-nothing-new-sun-new-suns-recovering-octavia-e-butlers-lost-parables

 THE BAD NEWS is waiting for us on the first page of the first chapter of Octavia E. Butler’s 1998 science fiction novel Parable of the Talents.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:55 -0800 https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/theres-nothing-new-sun-new-suns-recovering-octavia-e-butlers-lost-parables
<![CDATA[Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism | Pankaj Mishra | The New York Review of Books]]> https://www.nybooks.com/online/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and-fascist-mysticism/

“Men have to toughen up,” Jordan B. Peterson writes in 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote to Chaos, “Men demand it, and women want it.” So, the first rule is, “Stand up straight with your shoulders back” and don’t forget to “clean your room.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:34 -0800 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and-fascist-mysticism/
<![CDATA[The Marvelization of Cinema]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tmxfVWDgMM

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About this video essay: We've all felt it: the movies have changed. But how so exactly, and why? And what can be done about it? In this extensive critique, I try to capture the decline of modern cinema in one unifying theory.

00:00 The Marvelization of Cinema 01:52 What is Storytelling Entropy? 06:26 Hollow Franchises 11:15 Meta-References to Nowhere 17:40 Corporate Passion 25:23 Breaking the Cycle 33:08 Meaningful Engagement

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Media included: 12 Angry Men; 2001 A Space Odyssey; A Good Day to Die Hard; A Hidden Life; Aftersun; Ahsoka; Alien; Alien vs. Predator; Aliens; Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania; Asteroid City; Avengers Age of Ultron; Avengers Endgame; Avengers Infinity War; Babylon; Barbie; Batman Begins; Batman v Superman; Blade Runner 2049; Captain America Civil War; Captain America The First Avenger; Captain America The Winter Soldier; Citadel; Deadpool; Decision to Leave; Die Hard; Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness; Dune; Dungeons and Dragons; Eternals; Foundation; Fast X; Free Guy; Game of Thrones; Ghostbusters Afterlife; Ghosted; Gladiator; Godzilla; Godzilla vs Kong; Goodfellas; Inception; Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny; Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Iron Man 3; Iron Man; John Wick Chapter 3 & 4; Jurassic Park; Jurassic World; Jurassic World Dominion; Lawrence of Arabia; Loki; Mission Impossible 1, 2, Fallout, Rogue Nation & Dead Reckoning; Moon Knight, Obi-Wan Kenobi; Ocean's Eleven; Once Upon a Time in Hollywood; Past Lives; Predator 1 & 2; Red Notice; Secret Invasion; Seven Samurai; Shang-Chi; She-Hulk; Spiderman 1 & 2; Spider-Man No Way Home; Star Wars A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Phantom Menace, The Revenge of the Sith, The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi & the Rise of Skywalker; Synecdoche New York; Terminator 1, 2 & Dark Fate; The Dark Knight, The Amazing Spider-Man 2; The Avengers; The Fabelmans; The Falcon and the Winter Soldier; The Flash; The Godfather 1 & 2; The Gray Man; The Hobbit Trilogy; The Lord of the Rings Trilogy; The Rings of Power; The Matrix 1 & 4; The Mummy; The Prestige; The Thing; The Witcher; Thor Love and Thunder; Thor Ragnarok; Thor The Dark World; Top Gun; Top Gun Maverick; Transformers Rise of the Beasts; Uncharted

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Tue, 07 Nov 2023 07:35:31 -0800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tmxfVWDgMM
<![CDATA[John Carpenter: We Wouldn’t Stand a Chance Against “The Thing”]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fShQU7HWcwQ

Stephen is delighted to welcome one of his favorite directors, the Master of Horror himself, John Carpenter. Watch as they discuss his 1982 classic film, “The Thing,” and stick around for a peek into Carpenter’s directing process for his latest project, “Suburban Screams.”

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Fri, 27 Oct 2023 00:35:00 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fShQU7HWcwQ
<![CDATA[An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media | Knight First Amendment Institute]]> https://knightcolumbia.org/blog/an-illustrated-field-guide-to-social-media

This field guide looks at social media that works on different “logics” than do Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. It features communities that have tried consciously to use different models than surveillance capitalism and includes the work of collaborators in other countries and subcultures.

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Wed, 12 Jul 2023 06:33:12 -0700 https://knightcolumbia.org/blog/an-illustrated-field-guide-to-social-media
<![CDATA[M John Harrison: ‘I want to be the first human to imitate ChatGPT’ | Science fiction books | The Guardian]]> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/20/m-john-harrison-i-want-to-be-the-first-human-to-imitate-chatgpt-wish-i-was-here

M John Harrison, 77, is the author of seven story collections and 12 novels, including Nova Swing, which won the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction in 2007, and The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, winner of the Goldsmiths prize in 2020.

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Mon, 10 Jul 2023 03:51:17 -0700 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/20/m-john-harrison-i-want-to-be-the-first-human-to-imitate-chatgpt-wish-i-was-here
<![CDATA[The Man Who Turned the World on to the Genius of Fungi - The New York Times]]> https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/magazine/merlin-sheldrake-fungi.html

One evening last winter, Merlin Sheldrake, the mycologist and author of the best-selling book “Entangled Life,” was headlining an event in London’s Soho. The night was billed as a “salon,” and the crowd, which included the novelist Edward St.

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Mon, 10 Jul 2023 03:51:11 -0700 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/magazine/merlin-sheldrake-fungi.html
<![CDATA[The best nonfiction tech books of all time]]> https://www.theverge.com/c/23771068/best-tech-books-nonfiction-recommendations

Not only does Ullman tell us what it was like to be an engineer during the dot-com bubble, but she does it in prose that many professional writers envy.

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Thu, 29 Jun 2023 07:34:18 -0700 https://www.theverge.com/c/23771068/best-tech-books-nonfiction-recommendations
<![CDATA[The Satire Hidden in ALIEN's Production Design | Making Alien]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQWHPbVSMms

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In this video, we take an in-depth look at the dark satire injected by Ron Cobb into the production design of Alien’s Nostromo spaceship that highlights the fact that the true monster of Alien is not the creature but the Weyland-Yutani corporation itself.


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(Alien Anthology) bit.ly/3J5gnYz (Crews Project) Semiotic Standard - bit.ly/428Kvc0 (Speculative Identities) Weylan-Yutani Logo - bit.ly/3Nb3yNI (alienfilmspedia) bit.ly/3N6OGjh (Rinzler 132) The Making of Alien by J.W. Rinzler (The Beast Within) https://bit.ly/3f6ri87 (Nathan) Alien Vault: The Definitive Story Behind the Film by Ian Nathan (Cinefantastique V09) Making Alien - Cinefantastique V09 (Alien Commentary) Alien Blu-ray Commentary (ASC Scott) American Cinematographer - The Filming of Alien - https://bit.ly/39jUhTu (Space Truckin’) Space Truckin’ – the Nostromo - Alien Series - http://bit.ly/3Qb6XfU (Mediascene #35) Mediascene Issue #35 (Martin for Starlog) Starlog Magazine Issue 026 (ASC Vanlint) American Cinematographer - Alien and Its Photographic Challenges - https://bit.ly/3tw6nj0 (Giger’s Alien) https://youtu.be/yEf3z1WnVI4

Music: Epidemic Sound

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Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:00:35 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQWHPbVSMms
<![CDATA[How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/how-humans-tamed-themselves/580447/

When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With typical graduate-student arrogance, I pronounced it “too many ideas chasing too little data.

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Sat, 23 Jul 2022 03:51:38 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/how-humans-tamed-themselves/580447/
<![CDATA[The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari ❧ Current Affairs]]> https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/07/the-dangerous-populist-science-of-yuval-noah-harari

Watch videos of Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the wildly successful book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and you will hear him being asked the most astonishing questions. Harari’s manner is soft spoken, even shy, in these encounters.

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Sat, 23 Jul 2022 03:51:36 -0700 https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/07/the-dangerous-populist-science-of-yuval-noah-harari
<![CDATA[How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/how-humans-tamed-themselves/580447/

When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With typical graduate-student arrogance, I pronounced it “too many ideas chasing too little data.

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Fri, 22 Jul 2022 23:51:38 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/how-humans-tamed-themselves/580447/
<![CDATA[The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari ❧ Current Affairs]]> https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/07/the-dangerous-populist-science-of-yuval-noah-harari

Watch videos of Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the wildly successful book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and you will hear him being asked the most astonishing questions. Harari’s manner is soft spoken, even shy, in these encounters.

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Fri, 22 Jul 2022 23:51:36 -0700 https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/07/the-dangerous-populist-science-of-yuval-noah-harari
<![CDATA[RPS Contemporary Group | Dr Grant Scott: United Nations of Photography]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_-07wlkYKA

Recorded Monday June 20th, 2022

After fifteen years art directing photography books and magazines such as Elle and Tatler, Dr Grant Scott began to work solely as a photographer for commercial and editorial clients in 2000. His images combine his experience working with some of the greatest photographers of the last century with his graphic and journalistic talents to create engaging photographic narratives from every commission.

Grant is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Coordinator for Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, documentary filmmaker, BBC Radio contributor and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015) and New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019).

In the talk Grant addresses the constantly shifting sands of engagement with the photographic medium. Noting that we read books and acquire a respect for how difficult it is to write and are taught how to read the written word and appreciate its transformative power Grant will makes the case for the importance of visual literacy. He will explain how digital photography has democratised the medium, with ensuing debates between those with analogue experience and the digital natives and focus on the importance of ‘the personal’ in defining subject matter. The talk and following questions and answers are an exploration on what makes a successful visual narrative.

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Mon, 27 Jun 2022 02:33:41 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_-07wlkYKA
<![CDATA[Hopepunk, grimdark, noblebright: Gautam Bhatia on new genres of storytelling - Hindustan Times]]> https://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/art-culture/hopepunk-grimdark-noblebright-gautam-bhatia-on-new-genres-of-storytelling-101649406798897.html

In a 2014 interview with reviews blog The Book Smugglers, the fantasy writer Katherine Addison observed that the main character of her acclaimed novel The Goblin Emperor – Maia Drazhar – was someone “whose ethical compass could find true north and stick to it” and was placed in a narrative i

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:52:57 -0700 https://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/art-culture/hopepunk-grimdark-noblebright-gautam-bhatia-on-new-genres-of-storytelling-101649406798897.html
<![CDATA[Hopepunk, grimdark, noblebright: Gautam Bhatia on new genres of storytelling - Hindustan Times]]> https://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/art-culture/hopepunk-grimdark-noblebright-gautam-bhatia-on-new-genres-of-storytelling-101649406798897.html

In a 2014 interview with reviews blog The Book Smugglers, the fantasy writer Katherine Addison observed that the main character of her acclaimed novel The Goblin Emperor – Maia Drazhar – was someone “whose ethical compass could find true north and stick to it” and was placed in a narrative i

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:52:57 -0700 https://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/art-culture/hopepunk-grimdark-noblebright-gautam-bhatia-on-new-genres-of-storytelling-101649406798897.html
<![CDATA[How This A.I. Draws Anything You Describe [DALL-E 2]]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1cF9QCu1rQ

Art takes a unique combination of skill, creativity the very human element of aesthetic taste. But what if the visual arts also fall to AI. In this episode we discuss Dall-E 2, a powerful text to image generator that's set to shake things up.

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https://cdn.openai.com/papers/dall-e-2.pdf

https://fortune.com/2022/04/06/openai-dall-e-2-photorealistic-images-from-text-descriptions/

https://www.engadget.com/open-a-is-dall-e-2-produces-fantastical-images-of-most-anything-you-can-imagine-170056814.html

https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-open-ai-dall-e-2-images-111840375.html

https://towardsdatascience.com/generating-images-from-prompts-using-clip-and-stylegan-1f9ed495ddda

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Fri, 22 Apr 2022 06:07:45 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1cF9QCu1rQ
<![CDATA[Rise of the machines: new book shows how revolutionary AlphaZero is | Chess | The Guardian]]> https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/feb/08/rise-of-the-machines-alphazero-artificial-intelligence-chess

The eye-catching victory of AlphaZero, the artificial-intelligence program that taught itself to play chess, over the No 1 computer engine Stockfish, has evoked comparisons with human legends.

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Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:51:59 -0700 https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/feb/08/rise-of-the-machines-alphazero-artificial-intelligence-chess
<![CDATA[Cultural theory of 'The Edgelord'?]]> http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/362417

The figure of 'The Edgelord' has been gaining traction in recent years. But I haven't read anything directed specifically at (theorising) this phenomena. Do you have any recommendations? Books, essays, YouTube polemics, podcasts etc. are all very welcome. OR The Edgelord's perceived relation to other concepts, frameworks, cultures, or pop notions.

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Thu, 07 Apr 2022 07:55:05 -0700 http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/362417