Two more contributions have now been published in the Robot Review of Books:
https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/ RRB #3 looks at K Allado-McDowell's pioneering experimental novel Amor Cringe and collection Pharmako-AI RRB #4 engages Matteo Pasquinelli's masterly The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence The Robot Review of Books also has a shiny new website. --- 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 is not a business, non-profit or otherwise: there are no adverts, no podcasts, no tote bags. It's not run by would-be influencers, human or machine. So, no urging you to get in touch if you have any questions. And new content does not appear online according to a regular schedule - and certainly not one set by the algorithms of social media. Contributions are just added to the Robot Review of Books when they are ready to be published. -- Gary Hall Professor of Media Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University: https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/ Website:http://www.garyhall.info Follow on Mastodon here: @garyhall@hcommons.social Latest: Journal article: 'Culture and the University as White, Male, Liberal Humanist, Public Space', New Formations:https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformations/vol-2023-issue-110/abstract-9912/ (Open access pre-print available here:https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/publications/culture-and-the-university-as-white-male-public-liberal-humanist-.) Blog posts: 'A Brief History of Writing: From Human Meaning to Pattern Recognition and Beyond', with Joanna Zylinska, The Writing Platform:https://thewritingplatform.com/2024/05/a-brief-history-of-writing-from-human-meaning-to-computational-pattern-recognition-and-beyond/ 'Creative AI: Thinking Outside the Black Box', Media Theory:https://mediatheoryjournal.org/2024/05/24/gary-hall-creative-ai-thinking-outside-the-black-box/ 'Oxford and the Observer Do Social Mobility',http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2024/6/10/oxford-and-the-observer-do-social-mobility.html
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