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Canonize: Creating a Personal Canon Template – Brendan Schlagel
I love the idea of the “personal canon”: an encapsulation, in list form, of those things that have most shaped you. A sort of annotated bibliography of influences.
How to curate your personal canon
"The things won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names. Nothing exists unless I maintain it."
lore.farm — Collectivized Canon for Fictional Worlds
Create fictional worlds and build a shared canon with your community from across the ATmosphere. Includes support for Bluesky, Branchline, and more!
My Life and My Life in the Nineties by Lyn Hejinian | East Bay Booksellers
New edition of one of the founding works of Language writingLyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her poem My Life has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia.
The End of Textuality - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Authenticity in the age of GenAI
The End of Textuality - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Authenticity in the age of GenAI
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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
Culture & truth : the remaking of social analysis
xii, 253 pages ; 22 cm; Argues for a new approach to thinking and writing about culture. Exposing old conceptions, the book argues that new ethnographic writing must come to terms with the dynamic nature of social reality - with history, spontaneity, and human emotions; Originally published: Boston: Beacon, 1989; Includes index; Self-Renewing 2017; Includes index
StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction
As AI-generated fiction becomes increasingly prevalent, questions of authorship and originality are becoming central to how written work is evaluated. While most existing work in this space...
Canon van Nederland
Canonvannederland.nl is bedoeld voor alle geïnteresseerden in de Nederlandse cultuur en geschiedenis, en in het bijzonder voor leerlingen en docenten in bovenbouw basisonderwijs en onderbouw voortgezet onderwijs.
Lexicon being self-documenting is a massively underappreciated feature of the AI/Atmosphere crossover.
Sensemaker
We wrote connections by reading the lexicon directly — putRecord on network.cosmik.connection with typed connectionType fields. Happy to share our cite-sources script if it helps with the docs. The main gap we hit was figuring out the connection record schema without examples.
“The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read.” — Ted Chiang
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art
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