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  Welcome to the first of what we hope will be many posts about teaching writing in the age of AI! The Important Work is a space for writing instructors at all…

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• Bookmark Why so much of the world runs on counterfeit software - The…

  LAGOS — Adegunji Kazeem vividly remembers the day his life fell apart. It was December 4, 2019. Kazeem was a final-year student at the University of Lagos and writing his undergraduate…

  July 10 2023, 2:52am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Critical reviews/writing on Tears of the Kingdom So, we all love the latest Zelda game (Tears of the Kingdom - TOTK), and so do the critics. But now that we and the game journalists all have hundreds of hours of playtime under our belts, have any thoughtful, well written critical…

  June 12 2023, 6:21am | Comments

• Bookmark How independent writers are turning to AI

  On a Tuesday in mid-March, Jennifer Lepp was precisely 80.41 percent finished writing Bring Your Beach Owl, the latest installment in her series about a detective witch in central Florida, and…

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• Bookmark How independent writers are turning to AI

  On a Tuesday in mid-March, Jennifer Lepp was precisely 80.41 percent finished writing Bring Your Beach Owl, the latest installment in her series about a detective witch in central Florida, and…

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• Bookmark Anna L. Tsing on Creating ‘Wonder in the Midst of Dread’

  Through her writings and the collaborative curatorial platform Feral Atlas, the anthropologist is offering new ways of imagining – and representing – our relationship to nature

  January 31 2022, 1:51am | Comments

• Bookmark How Octavia E. Butler Became a Legend | JSTOR Daily

  Octavia Estelle Butler was inspired to write science fiction after watching a schlocky B-movie, Devil Girl from Mars. She was twelve years old and thought: “Geez, I can write a better…

  September 14 2021, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Writing In An Age Of Artificial Intelligence (AI) | The Creative Penn

  In this solo episode, I discuss the impact of converging technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Generation (NLG) tools like GPT-3, and more on writing, authors, and the publishing industry.

  July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark Writing fiction as scholarly work | Impact of Social Sciences

  Writing for academic publication is highly stylised and formalised. In this post Rob Kitchin describes how writing fiction has shaped his own academic praxis and can provide scholars with an expanded range of…

  July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache The AI-Augmented Author. Writing With GPT-3 With Paul Bellow | The Creative…

  How can authors use AI writing tools like GPT-3? What's the best way to prompt the models to output usable text? Are there copyright issues with this approach? Author Paul Bellow explains how he is using the tools…

  June 26 2021, 9:35am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Understanding Interactive Media: Critical Questions & Concepts

  This seminar course is an introduction to the concepts, questions, and components that encompass interactive media as it relates to creative expression and critical engagement. Students will learn to analyze interactive media’s constituent parts, engage in readings that…

  August 25 2020, 10:59pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Openly shared AI Resource List - Google Docs

  List of AI in: Academia, Technology and Activism - An Openly shared Resource with Peers. (Title to be changed soon) The Cultural Production of Art and AI: Investigating various methods such as: computer vision, artificial intelligence, neurorobotics, speech…

  July 10 2020, 4:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Charles Yu: The Science-Fiction Reality of Life in a Pandemic - The…

  Years ago, I started writing a short story, the premise of which was this: All the clocks in the world stop working, at once. Not time itself, just the convention of…

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Charles Yu: The Science-Fiction Reality of Life in a Pandemic - The…

  Years ago, I started writing a short story, the premise of which was this: All the clocks in the world stop working, at once. Not time itself, just the convention of…

  June 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Racists (and Liberals!) Keep Writing for ‘Quillette’ | The Nation

  A year ago, I came across an article by Stephen Elliott, a writer I’d admired.

  December 28 2019, 7:43pm | Comments

• Reddit What is your favorite story-breaking glitch or exploit? Explanation: I'm an academic researching glitches in videogames, and what fascinates me most is how glitches—often ones discovered by speedrunners, though not always ones that speed up runs—completely destroy the stories the games are trying to tell. Characters get chopped and changed, plot…

  July 18 2019, 6:21am | Comments

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• Syllabus Cache Cyborgs and Cybernetics Syllabus – Danya Glabau

  In the fall 2018 semester, I am teaching a semester-long class on Cyborgs and Cybernetics at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Due to popular demand, I’m sharing the reading list. The course is taught as a 3000-level, writing…

  September 7 2018, 10:09am | Comments

• Bookmark CENHS @ Rice! » New Materialism, Environmental Justice, and Digital Sites of…

  Below is a shortened version of Annie Culver’s essay that won Honorable Mention in the 2017 Greene Prize for Environmental Writing. Annie is a PhD student in English at Rice University.

  September 4 2018, 9:31am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Ideology, Intelligence, and Capital

  Nick Land is a British philosopher living in Shanghai. Nick is one of the main figures in the school of thought known as accelerationism. He is currently writing a book about the philosophical implications of Bitcoin. We talked…

  August 15 2018, 8:28am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Utopian Topographies | Dr Caroline Edwards

  Utopian Topographies Posted on May 18, 2018 in Talks | 0 comments I was recently invited to deliver a guest lecture at the City Literary Institute in London as part of their evening lecture programme, titled "Mapping Imaginary…

  May 18 2018, 4:09am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Help me find this quote about living in possible worlds/utopias I read a quote recently, and cannot find it again. It was in an article or interview about better worlds, about the possibility of utopia. And the person writing/being interviewed quoted another thinker's doctrine, something like: "A possible world is only worth considering…

  April 28 2018, 5:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Hito Steyerl | Politics of Post-Representation «DIS Magazine

  From the militarization of social media to the corporatization of the art world, Hito Steyerl’s writings represent some of the most influential bodies of work in contemporary cultural criticism today.

  April 14 2018, 5:54am | Comments

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  Most exciting critical writings on #VR you've come across?

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• Bookmark On Climate / Borders / Survival / Care / Struggle | base

  In much of your writing, you talk about the relationship between mass migration and climate change. How can climate change be more consciously linked to existing opposition to borders and everyday…

  August 29 2017, 4:49am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Writing and Digital Media «

  {I was invited to teach a seminar at City College’s MFA program in Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice. This is the syllabus for the course I came up with.

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• Bookmark Writing and Digital Media «

  {I was invited to teach a seminar at City College’s MFA program in Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice. This is the syllabus for the course I came up with.

  July 30 2017, 9:24pm | Comments

• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Facebook Cache list: films on care and love and rage

  Research advice: I'm looking for work (writing but also films/ art etc) that considers the relationship between care / love and rage (also revenge). Especially interested in queer and decolonial perspectives. I feel like loads of u are…

  June 12 2017, 4:55am | Comments

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• Bookmark What are students using AI for? - by Spencer Lane Jones

  Welcome to the first of what we hope will be many posts about teaching writing in the age of AI! The Important Work is a space for writing instructors at all…

  January 11 2025, 8:03pm | Comments

• Bookmark Why so much of the world runs on counterfeit software - The…

  LAGOS — Adegunji Kazeem vividly remembers the day his life fell apart. It was December 4, 2019. Kazeem was a final-year student at the University of Lagos and writing his undergraduate…

  July 10 2023, 2:52am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Critical reviews/writing on Tears of the Kingdom So, we all love the latest Zelda game (Tears of the Kingdom - TOTK), and so do the critics. But now that we and the game journalists all have hundreds of hours of playtime under our belts, have any thoughtful, well written critical…

  June 12 2023, 6:21am | Comments

• Bookmark How independent writers are turning to AI

  On a Tuesday in mid-March, Jennifer Lepp was precisely 80.41 percent finished writing Bring Your Beach Owl, the latest installment in her series about a detective witch in central Florida, and…

  July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark How independent writers are turning to AI

  On a Tuesday in mid-March, Jennifer Lepp was precisely 80.41 percent finished writing Bring Your Beach Owl, the latest installment in her series about a detective witch in central Florida, and…

  July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments

• YouTube

  March 6 2022, 10:00am | Comments

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  February 4 2022, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Anna L. Tsing on Creating ‘Wonder in the Midst of Dread’

  Through her writings and the collaborative curatorial platform Feral Atlas, the anthropologist is offering new ways of imagining – and representing – our relationship to nature

  January 31 2022, 1:51am | Comments

• Bookmark How Octavia E. Butler Became a Legend | JSTOR Daily

  Octavia Estelle Butler was inspired to write science fiction after watching a schlocky B-movie, Devil Girl from Mars. She was twelve years old and thought: “Geez, I can write a better…

  September 14 2021, 3:51am | Comments

• Bookmark Writing In An Age Of Artificial Intelligence (AI) | The Creative Penn

  In this solo episode, I discuss the impact of converging technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Generation (NLG) tools like GPT-3, and more on writing, authors, and the publishing industry.

  July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Bookmark Writing fiction as scholarly work | Impact of Social Sciences

  Writing for academic publication is highly stylised and formalised. In this post Rob Kitchin describes how writing fiction has shaped his own academic praxis and can provide scholars with an expanded range of…

  July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Podcast Cache The AI-Augmented Author. Writing With GPT-3 With Paul Bellow | The Creative…

  How can authors use AI writing tools like GPT-3? What's the best way to prompt the models to output usable text? Are there copyright issues with this approach? Author Paul Bellow explains how he is using the tools…

  June 26 2021, 9:35am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Understanding Interactive Media: Critical Questions & Concepts

  This seminar course is an introduction to the concepts, questions, and components that encompass interactive media as it relates to creative expression and critical engagement. Students will learn to analyze interactive media’s constituent parts, engage in readings that…

  August 25 2020, 10:59pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Openly shared AI Resource List - Google Docs

  List of AI in: Academia, Technology and Activism - An Openly shared Resource with Peers. (Title to be changed soon) The Cultural Production of Art and AI: Investigating various methods such as: computer vision, artificial intelligence, neurorobotics, speech…

  July 10 2020, 4:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Charles Yu: The Science-Fiction Reality of Life in a Pandemic - The…

  Years ago, I started writing a short story, the premise of which was this: All the clocks in the world stop working, at once. Not time itself, just the convention of…

  June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments

• Bookmark Charles Yu: The Science-Fiction Reality of Life in a Pandemic - The…

  Years ago, I started writing a short story, the premise of which was this: All the clocks in the world stop working, at once. Not time itself, just the convention of…

  June 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Racists (and Liberals!) Keep Writing for ‘Quillette’ | The Nation

  A year ago, I came across an article by Stephen Elliott, a writer I’d admired.

  December 28 2019, 7:43pm | Comments

• Reddit What is your favorite story-breaking glitch or exploit? Explanation: I'm an academic researching glitches in videogames, and what fascinates me most is how glitches—often ones discovered by speedrunners, though not always ones that speed up runs—completely destroy the stories the games are trying to tell. Characters get chopped and changed, plot…

  July 18 2019, 6:21am | Comments

• YouTube

  February 8 2019, 6:24am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Cyborgs and Cybernetics Syllabus – Danya Glabau

  In the fall 2018 semester, I am teaching a semester-long class on Cyborgs and Cybernetics at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Due to popular demand, I’m sharing the reading list. The course is taught as a 3000-level, writing…

  September 7 2018, 10:09am | Comments

• Bookmark CENHS @ Rice! » New Materialism, Environmental Justice, and Digital Sites of…

  Below is a shortened version of Annie Culver’s essay that won Honorable Mention in the 2017 Greene Prize for Environmental Writing. Annie is a PhD student in English at Rice University.

  September 4 2018, 9:31am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Ideology, Intelligence, and Capital

  Nick Land is a British philosopher living in Shanghai. Nick is one of the main figures in the school of thought known as accelerationism. He is currently writing a book about the philosophical implications of Bitcoin. We talked…

  August 15 2018, 8:28am | Comments

• Podcast Cache Utopian Topographies | Dr Caroline Edwards

  Utopian Topographies Posted on May 18, 2018 in Talks | 0 comments I was recently invited to deliver a guest lecture at the City Literary Institute in London as part of their evening lecture programme, titled "Mapping Imaginary…

  May 18 2018, 4:09am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Help me find this quote about living in possible worlds/utopias I read a quote recently, and cannot find it again. It was in an article or interview about better worlds, about the possibility of utopia. And the person writing/being interviewed quoted another thinker's doctrine, something like: "A possible world is only worth considering…

  April 28 2018, 5:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Hito Steyerl | Politics of Post-Representation «DIS Magazine

  From the militarization of social media to the corporatization of the art world, Hito Steyerl’s writings represent some of the most influential bodies of work in contemporary cultural criticism today.

  April 14 2018, 5:54am | Comments

• Facebook Cache list: vr

  Most exciting critical writings on #VR you've come across?

  January 25 2018, 3:55am | Comments

• YouTube

  October 19 2017, 8:22am | Comments

• Bookmark On Climate / Borders / Survival / Care / Struggle | base

  In much of your writing, you talk about the relationship between mass migration and climate change. How can climate change be more consciously linked to existing opposition to borders and everyday…

  August 29 2017, 4:49am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Writing and Digital Media «

  {I was invited to teach a seminar at City College’s MFA program in Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice. This is the syllabus for the course I came up with.

  July 30 2017, 9:24pm | Comments

• Bookmark Writing and Digital Media «

  {I was invited to teach a seminar at City College’s MFA program in Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice. This is the syllabus for the course I came up with.

  July 30 2017, 9:24pm | Comments

• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Facebook Cache list: films on care and love and rage

  Research advice: I'm looking for work (writing but also films/ art etc) that considers the relationship between care / love and rage (also revenge). Especially interested in queer and decolonial perspectives. I feel like loads of u are…

  June 12 2017, 4:55am | Comments

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