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26 Apr
"Fantascienza" is the Italian word for science fiction, but fantascienza has its own tropes, rhythms and conventions that set it apart in hard-to-summarize ways; these unique characteristics have fired the Italian imagination for generations.

1/ The cover of Robot Artists ...
Very little fantascienza (or any other foreign literature) gets translated to English. There's a kind of circular reasoning behind this: there's so much stuff produced in English that there's no market for foreign works, and no one reads foreign works so why translate any?

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Which brings me to a very odd, very wonderful book: ROBOT ARTISTS AND BLACK SWANS, @bruces's collection of fantascienza stories originally published under his Italian pseudonym, "Bruno Argento."

tachyonpublications.com/product/robot-…

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26 Apr
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The Big U; How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism Part 4; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/26/moo…

#Pluralistic

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Next Thursday, I'm helping Bruce Sterling launch "Robot Artists & Black Swans," a book of sf short stories in the Italian "fantascienza" mode, at Austin's Book People!

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The Big U: America's elite educational institutions are as rich as countries.



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26 Apr
This week on my podcast, the fourth part of a six (?) part serialized reading of my 2020 One Zero book HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, a book arguing that monopoly – not AI-based brainwashing – is the real way that tech controls our behavior.

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

1/ The cover of the print edit...
The book is available in paperback:

bookshop.org/books/how-to-d…

and DRM-free ebook :

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and my local bookseller, Dark Delicacies, has signed stock that I'll drop by and personalize for you!

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Here's the podcast episode:

craphound.com/nonficbooks/de…

And here's part one:

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And part two:

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And part three:

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26 Apr
Writing in @matthewstoller's BIG newsletter, @samhaselby makes the case that US elite universities - the Ivies - are a cartel that uses its monopoly to reproduce its monopoly, to the detriment of the rest of us.

mattstoller.substack.com/p/break-up-the…

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Mistrust of the Ivies is as old as the nation. They were founded by members of the Puritan "elect" whose explicit project was to maintain the rule of a minority over the majority, in a nation that was steadily increasing its democratic, majoritarian governance.

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These schools would produce "leaders" whose credentials would help them secure the reins of power that they were divinely entitled to.

No less than Thomas Jefferson rebelled against this idea, founding @UVA "to counter what he saw as their anti-democratic influence."

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26 Apr
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25 Apr
Creature Double Feature 6:

FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN (Hammer/20th Century-Fox 1967)

FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED (Hammer/Warner Bros 1969)
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Creature Double Feature 6:

FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN (Hammer/20th Century-Fox 1967)

FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED (Hammer/Warner Bros 1969)
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Creature Double Feature 6:

FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN (Hammer/20th Century-Fox 1967)

FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED (Hammer/Warner Bros 1969)
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