Winning and losing…what?
I’ve agreed to review this new book, Co-illusion: Dispatches from the End of Communication (MIT, 2020), for Source Magazine, a journal of contemporary photography. It’s a very short review — just 300 words —...
Category: writing
Writing and Roaming
Roaming is a small community interest group I work with, based in Penzance, near the western tip of this island. The group — usually around 6 or 7, but it varies — has established...
This is Publishing?
I’ve spent the last few days wrestling with the internet on various levels. I was trying to get an account on Instagram for my husband, because he’s installing new work at my friend Deborah’s...
Cousin Tom, writing and reading
Yesterday my cousin Tom posted a text on Facebook, introducing an experiment. The idea was, first, to check on who actually read his posts (and was willing to follow the instructions), and second, to kick-start a bit...
Writing with Robots
I seem to be learning to write again, this time with a machine reader in mind. Since the software — in my case, Boldgrid — IS an algorithm, it performs the function of a robotic...
Mysterious Minoan: Crete and Linear A
Among the many memories of a recent trip to Crete are two different scripts that were developed there. Linear B is an early form of Greek, but Linear A, which seems to use the same...