Medieval app
I have a new enthusiasm for volvelles (and yet another suspicion that I would have made a happy medievalist). A volvelle is a paper thing made of moveable layers, or more exactly, several circular...
Category: writing
Writers Against AI
With apologies to those writers among us who have been familiar with the label and the conviction for a long time now, I’m new. The immediate source of both words and image is an...
The Man without Qualities: Book Review
It’s unfinished. Whatever you read about it, you’ll learn that much. Musil himself reportedly suggested that the work was not so much a novel as an essay that grew past its boundaries — boundaries...
AI can’t Lie
It could be a poem. Yesterday a friend sent me a short text and a question about whether “my” writer had written it. He was asking about a writer I admire a lot —...
Creative Writing
Remember the phrase, “creative writing”? Did it annoy you? It did me. Now that we’re getting more familiar with ai, I think I know why. And I’m even more annoyed. It goes beyond writing,...