From mail at garyhall.info Thu May 8 14:20:08 2025 From: mail at garyhall.info (Gary Hall) Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 13:20:08 +0100 Subject: ::fibreculture:: ***SPAM*** Robot Review of Books - #13 & #14: Fredric Jameson and The Years of Theory Message-ID: <11b73997-b578-4a98-8e7c-37a0c4d6b52a@garyhall.info> 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? --- Robot Review of Books: https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/ 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 Latest: Book: Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence:http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/ Blog post: 'Radical Open Access III: What Do We Not Think About When We Think About Money?':http://www.garyhall.info/journal/2025/4/14/what-do-we-not-think-about-when-we-think-about-money.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: