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Bookmark BBC - Future - The world's most prolific writer is a Chinese…
“Inflatable duck baby pool with canopy.” “Hot selling colourful temporary full arm tattoo for men.” “Splendid reusable dog pee pad (minimum order: 500).

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators | McKinsey & Company
Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will. Sunspring debuted at the SCI-FI LONDON film festival in 2016.

December 13 2017, 4:26am | Comments
Bookmark Ursula K. Le Guin Explains How to Build a New Kind of…
By Ursula K. Le Guin These are some thoughts about utopia and dystopia. The old, crude Good Places were compensatory visions of controlling what you couldn’t control and having what you…

December 6 2017, 10:19pm | 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
Bookmark Posthumanities: The Dark Side of “The Dark Side of the Digital”
In What Is Posthumanism? Cary Wolfe insists “the nature of thought itself must change if it is to be posthumanist.

June 28 2017, 3:07am | Comments
Bookmark How philosophy came to disdain the wisdom of oral cultures | Aeon…
A poet, somewhere in Siberia, or the Balkans, or West Africa, some time in the past 60,000 years, recites thousands of memorised lines in the course of an evening. The lines…

April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments
Bookmark Books after the Death of the Book | Public Books
Last summer I decided to assign Ted Chiang’s The Lifecycle of Software Objects in the graduate course I was getting ready to teach.

April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments
Portfolio Sonic Acts 2017: The Noise of Becoming: On Monsters, Men, and Every Thing in Between

February 26 2017, 4:43am | Comments
Projects HOLO 2: Results May Vary (contribution)

December 9 2016, 2:04am | Comments
Bookmark Transrealism: the first major literary movement of the 21st century? | Books…
It’s not science fiction, it’s not realism, but hovers in the unsettling zone in between. From Philip K Dick to Stephen King, Damien Walter takes a tour through transrealism, the emerging…

July 17 2016, 4:33am | Comments
Bookmark Modest Witness: A Painter's Collaboration with Donna Haraway
When I read Donna Haraway's Manifesto for Cyborgs in 1989, I was intrigued and inspired. Here was a piece that resonated with my political, feminist and moral values.

June 20 2016, 1:21am | Comments
Bookmark The Materiality of Research: ‘On the Materiality of Writing in Academia or…
In this feature essay, Ninna Meier reflects on the materiality of the writing – and re-writing – process in academic research.

May 9 2016, 1:16am | Comments
Bookmark A Brief History of Books That Do Not Exist | Literary Hub
I love books that exist almost as much as I love books that don’t exist. So I have written some books, The Seas, The Invention of Everything Else and Mr. Splitfoot,…

January 9 2016, 8:10am | Comments
Bookmark The Block is the Successor to The Book: A Publishing Proposal
In this text, we introduce Txtblock, a decentralized tool for publishing and distribution of digital text in a format called the block—a squarely defined, eternally immutable unit of information. The block…

November 21 2015, 8:45am | Comments
Bookmark The AI that writes articles for you is now available for testing
Automated Insights has opened up beta access to Wordsmith, its platform for automating repetitive, time-consuming writing tasks using your data.

October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments
Projects POSTmatter ::: fig-2 ::: ICA - Live Collaborative Writing

August 28 2015, 4:46am | Comments
Bookmark Kenneth Goldsmith and Penn’s Wasting Time on the Internet course.
The 15 undergraduate students in “Wasting Time on the Internet,” an English course offered by the University of Pennsylvania, plus professor Kenneth Goldsmith, plus me, are participating in an activity. Actually,…

May 4 2015, 9:44am | Comments
Bookmark Weird realism: John Gray on the moral universe of H P Lovecraft
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas…

March 30 2015, 8:57am | Comments
Bookmark Toward a History (and Future) of the Artist Statement – Paper Monument
From Paper Monument Number Four. Click here to order your copy. Google artist statement, and you will find a good dozen instructional websites enjoining artists to “follow these easy steps” to…

February 23 2015, 7:45am | Comments
Facebook Cache list: artist statements
I am looking for some fantastic and terrible examples of 'artist statements'. I'd be keen to track down examples where the rules have been bent/broken (1st/2nd/3rd person pronouns; art writerly; weird but brilliant etc.). I will be teaching…

February 22 2015, 6:08am | Comments
Bookmark What Is an @uthor? | The Los Angeles Review of Books
Photo: Faulkner at Virginia, © 2010 Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia; Author Stephen Railton.

February 10 2015, 4:11am | Comments
Bookmark Dark Arts | The Verge
So even though cyberpunk may be dead, the people who grew up on Gibson’s writing, Akira, and Blade Runner are still around.

November 22 2014, 5:24am | Comments
Bookmark Japanese science fiction award opens entries to aliens and computers | Books…
Last week, the Australian writer Richard Flanagan stalked on to the stage wearing a broad grin, kissed the Duchess of Cornwall and grasped the 2014 Man Booker prize.

November 22 2014, 5:23am | Comments
Bookmark Why I Am Teaching a Course Called “Wasting Time on the Internet”…
The Surrealists’ ideal state for making art was the twilight between wakefulness and sleep, when they would dredge up images from the murky subconscious and throw them onto the page or…

November 22 2014, 5:23am | 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.

August 30 2014, 6:04am | Comments
Portfolio Synthetic Assistants

August 28 2014, 1:42am | Comments
Bookmark The Millions : The Art of Close Writing
Jonathan Russell Clark sits at his desk, writing an essay about free indirect discourse. Surrounding him are books by authors who employ the technique with considerable skill: Jane Austen, Gustave Flaubert,…

August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments
Bookmark Photomediations Machine | The ethical force of photographic mediation
Given that mediation is, like time (or, indeed, life itself), both invisible and indivisible, any attempt at its representation must ultimately fail. It seems that the intellect can therefore understand photographs…

July 12 2014, 2:38am | Comments
Bookmark The novel is dead (this time it's for real) | Books |…
If you happen to be a writer, one of the great benisons of having children is that your personal culture-mine is equipped with its own canaries.

May 2 2014, 9:56am | Comments
Bookmark Dangerous Minds | Take a creative writing course with William Burroughs
So, you want to write but can’t afford those darned writing courses you see advertised online or in all those fancy cultural ‘zines you spend your hard earned dollars on? Well,…

February 26 2014, 9:06am | Comments

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