Steven Shaviro

New blog posting: on Cassandra Khaw's The Library at Hellebore: www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1996

The Shinola factory is literally across the street from the building in which I live.

Richard Nixon once complained (on the Watergate tapes): “A great leader should be both loved and feared, and I’m neither”.

Book review: MINDS IN TRANSIT by Joan Slonczewski shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1993

New blog entry: Charlie Jane Anders' forthcoming novel, LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER: shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1990

It isn’t as radical as Blindsight. But a number of recent books from Tchaikovsky - especially Alien Clay and now Shroud - really approach sentience beyond the human from a new standpoint.

I wrote a brief review of Adrian Tchaikovsky's new science fiction novel SHROUD: shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1987

YouTube video by University of California Television (UCTV) Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying with Roddey Reid

Roddey Reid on political intimidation and bullying in the age of Trump: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPY8...

"(T)he retreat of morals in the presence of music, and of dancing, and the general gaiety of the theatre, is a fact very interesting to philosophers and very puzzling to the official censors."
-- A.N. Whitehead, 'Modes of Thought'

Most people live lives of quiet desperation, survey suggests

New blog entry: Donald Trump is not conscious shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1979

Steven Shaviro's review of Shroud 5/5: SHROUD is a look at alien sentience, by the (alarmingly prolific) science fiction writer Adrian Tchaikovsky. Two engineers are stuck in their spacecraft (which is actually more like a bathysphere...

New book review: Adrian Tchaikovsky's sf novel SHROUD:

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

It's weird to have elected leaders who say they want to crash the economy, reinstate segregation, strip human rights and create a perpetual underclass and then have people ask why are they doing this are they bad at economics ?

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

Just signed a contract to publish a book on the movie NEPTUNE FROST in Bloomsbury's Timecodes: Films MInute By Minute series. @bloomsburymedia.bsky.social

This is the second time USAID/State is punishing people revealing the truth that Marco is killing children. They're quite desperate to hide this fact, as if the reporters in Africa or court declarations are making it up.

RIP Souleymane Cissé, great film director from Mali. HIs 1987 YEELEN, the only film of his I have seen, is extraordinary. He made other films as well, which I hope to get a chance to see.

archive.is/BVmT2

Trump's approach to the presidency is like if I lost my teaching job and then got another, against all odds, and determined that I was going to take full advantage of the opportunity -- by selling grades, sleeping with students, and saying the N-word in class.

"Rolling back 'DEI policies'... is really just a code for no longer hiring Black people."

-- Elie Mystal

Sweet Relief Sweet Relief Musicians Fund provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians and music industry workers who are struggling to make ends meet while facing illness, disability, or age-rela...

David Johansen aged with grace from his rock star glory into a position as one of popular music's most jovial preservationists. Now he needs help. My heart hurst knowing of his struggles; he's one of the greats www.sweetrelief.org/davidjohanse...

Trump’s policy is best understood as inverse affirmative action: he seeks to punish and penalize any business that fails to exclusively hire and favor white men.

Confession: I have never quite grasped the mystique of Pink
Floyd.

YouTube video by Erratum Press Zipf Maneuvers by Andrew C. Wenaus & Germán Sierra

In response to the exorbitant fee imposed by corporate publishers to reprint their own work, neuroscientist Germán Sierra and literary theorist Andrew C. Wenaus devise a radical strategy to bypass the neoliberal logic of access and ownership...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAEi...

agreed. To blame Acker for Gaiman's abuses is ugly and wrong.

This is more like an expression than a word. But it is VERY important to know if you're learning Hungarian. 😆

árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép - it means flood-resistant mirror-drilling machine.

You need to know this because it is an expression that includes all the Hungarian diacritics in one handy place.

Zipf Maneuvers: On Non-Reprintable Materials
Andrew C. Wenaus & Germán Sierra with an intro by Steven Shaviro *out today*
www.erratumpress.com/zipf-maneuvers
@germansierra.bsky.social @sshaviro.bsky.social

Potential title for my spiritual autobiography: From Binswangerian Verstiegenheit to Reconstructionist Sabbateanism

Coming very soon: Zipf Maneouvers. On Non-Reprintable Materials

Special thanks to Andrew C. Wenaus, @sshaviro.bsky.social & @erratumpress.bsky.social

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