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Combinatorial Books: Gathering Flowers (book series)

‘How To Be A Pirate: An Interview with Alexandra Elbakyan and Gary Hall by Holger Briel’.

'Experimenting With Copyright Licences' (blogpost for the COPIM project - part of the documentation for the first book coming out of the Combinatorial Books pilot)

‘Review of Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage' by Matthew Kirschenbaum

Contribution to 'Archipiélago Crítico. ¡Formado está! ¡Naveguémoslo!' (invited talk: in Spanish translation with English subtitles)

'Defund Culture' (journal article)

How to Practise the Culture-led Re-Commoning of Cities (printable poster), Partisan Social Club, adjusted by Gary Hall

'Pluriversal Socialism - The Very Idea' (journal article)

'Writing Against Elitism with A Stubborn Fury' (podcast)

'The Uberfication of the University - with Gary Hall' (podcast)

'"La modernidad fue un "blip" en el sistema": sobre teorías y disrupciones con Gary Hall' ['"Modernity was a "blip" in the system": on theories and disruptions with Gary Hall']' (press interview in Colombia)

'Combinatorial Books - Gathering Flowers', with Janneke Adema and Gabriela Méndez Cota - Part 1; Part 2; Part 3 (blog post)

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Friday

May242024

Robot Review of Books

Friday, May 24, 2024 at 3:01PM

Introducing the Robot Review of Books.

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: there are no adverts, no podcasts, no tote bags.

It's not run by would-be influencers, either 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 - 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.

RRB #1 might be the only one. Or it might be the first of many.

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