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<p>More contributions to the Robot Review of Books:<br>
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<p>RRB #5 explores why book reviews have become so hypercritical?</p>
<p>RRB #6 looks at 'Critiquing the Vocabularies of the Marketized
University' by Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman, Gholam Khiabany and
Milly Williamson to ask: If remain in the university - rather than
plan to leave it as many are now doing - and fight for education
as a public good, what are we actually going to do by way of
resisting the marketized model of university management and the
hollowing out of critique?<br>
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<p>Robot Review of Books: </p>
<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/no-1-rrb-introduction-v-2"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"
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title="https://archive.org/details/no-1-rrb-introduction-v-2"><span
class="invisible">https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/</span></a></p>
<p>Like the London Review of Books ... but with even more robots!</p>
<p>The Robot Review of Books is an AI ‘magazine’ consisting of short
computational media essays that are typically structured as book
reviews.</p>
<p> Free: No subscriptions, no paywalls.</p>
<p> Non-Surveillance Capitalist: Viewer privacy is respected with no
collection, storage or sale of personal data.</p>
<p> Quiet: No hype, no appeals for likes, shares or follows.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/">https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/</a>
Website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.garyhall.info">http://www.garyhall.info</a>
Follow on Mastodon here: @garyhall@hcommons.social
Latest:
'Magazine': Robot Review of Books: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/">https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/</a>
Journal article: 'Culture and the University as White, Male, Liberal Humanist, Public Space', New Formations: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformations/vol-2023-issue-110/abstract-9912/">https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformations/vol-2023-issue-110/abstract-9912/</a> (Open access pre-print available here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/publications/culture-and-the-university-as-white-male-public-liberal-humanist">https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/publications/culture-and-the-university-as-white-male-public-liberal-humanist</a>-.)
Blog posts: 'A Brief History of Writing: From Human Meaning to Pattern Recognition and Beyond', with Joanna Zylinska, The Writing Platform: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://thewritingplatform.com/2024/05/a-brief-history-of-writing-from-human-meaning-to-computational-pattern-recognition-and-beyond/">https://thewritingplatform.com/2024/05/a-brief-history-of-writing-from-human-meaning-to-computational-pattern-recognition-and-beyond/</a>
'Creative AI: Thinking Outside the Black Box', Media Theory: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mediatheoryjournal.org/2024/05/24/gary-hall-creative-ai-thinking-outside-the-black-box/">https://mediatheoryjournal.org/2024/05/24/gary-hall-creative-ai-thinking-outside-the-black-box/</a>
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