A fabulously gay blind Romance author.
The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind author.
The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind author.
Authorship, division of labour, material and digital form; thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market
On Christmas day, we had a quiet time this year. One of the things I did was to read Moore, Samuel A., Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (University of Michigan Press, 2025). This is a most enjoyable book that outlines a project and worldview that I know Sam has been cultivating and refining for many years. I should stress that I am not writing a “review” here. I would be conflicted anyway as I am thanked in the acknowledgements. But it did, like all good books, make me think and I wanted to jot down some thoughts. These thoughts are not necessarily novel – sometimes Sam even explores some of them in the book – but I thought it would be enjoyable to express them nonetheless.
Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound | Maryanne Wolf
When the reading brain skims texts, we don’t have time to grasp complexity, to understand another’s feelings or to perceive beauty. We need a new literacy for the digital age writes Maryanne Wolf, author of Reader, Come Home
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simon…
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The role of literature as the key to personal freedom | Aeon Essays
Stripped of easy moralising, literature makes us relish the search for truth in an age when many believe truth to be dead
MAiD, ableism, cognitive accessibility, and more
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The revolt of the reader | The Observation Deck
Reading is important to me. While I’m not a quick reader nor an especially voracious one, I have found that long-form reading has had a profound influence on me over my life. And because reading is important to me, writing is too: writing not only allows us to convey our ideas, but the very act forces us to test and distill them — at once making our ideas more robust while providing the vehicle by which to share them.
Iain McGilchrist – Rediscovering Wisdom in a World Gone Mad
Helena Norberg-Hodge talks to Iain McGilchrist, a one-of-a-kind thinker, Oxford literary scholar, and doctor in psychiatry and neuroscience.
Being Black: Selections from "Soledad Brother" by Georg…
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Revenge of the Dilettantes
Book club and AI adventures, age of bespokeness, study groups, new rules of engagement
