Be warned that it's a Sam Kriss essay - an interesting read, but doesn't strictly speaking make sense, and you should probably verify any facts you care about. (Come to think of it, the same...
Be warned that it's a Sam Kriss essay - an interesting read, but doesn't strictly speaking make sense, and you should probably verify any facts you care about.
(Come to think of it, the same warning works for AI, but this is better written.)
I don’t know Sam Kriss but I enjoyed this article and found it meaningful—and even historically accurate—as it ranged widely from textual analysis of medieval Turkish literature to flaws in the...
I don’t know Sam Kriss but I enjoyed this article and found it meaningful—and even historically accurate—as it ranged widely from textual analysis of medieval Turkish literature to flaws in the current modes of communication in academia.
Ultimately, it’s mostly an essay about the medium being the message everywhere from the pastoralist steppe to this digital day and age. It even searches for solutions to our current issues and provides some firm conclusions.
I like it. Perhaps he will work with me on an ancient history YouTube episode on the difficulties of presenting [pre]modern texts to a modern audience.
Edit: Egad, an Internet search on him as a public figure is problematic, to say the least. Canceled, contrite, and trying to rehabilitate his image online. Nothing is ever simple anymore.
Judging academics by the standards of poets telling folk stories from memory is fun to think about, but doesn't seem like a good idea. I don't know the history enough to spot errors. Some earlier...
Judging academics by the standards of poets telling folk stories from memory is fun to think about, but doesn't seem like a good idea.
I don't know the history enough to spot errors. Some earlier essays were pretty surreal, though.
Be warned that it's a Sam Kriss essay - an interesting read, but doesn't strictly speaking make sense, and you should probably verify any facts you care about.
(Come to think of it, the same warning works for AI, but this is better written.)
I don’t know Sam Kriss but I enjoyed this article and found it meaningful—and even historically accurate—as it ranged widely from textual analysis of medieval Turkish literature to flaws in the current modes of communication in academia.
Ultimately, it’s mostly an essay about the medium being the message everywhere from the pastoralist steppe to this digital day and age. It even searches for solutions to our current issues and provides some firm conclusions.
I like it. Perhaps he will work with me on an ancient history YouTube episode on the difficulties of presenting [pre]modern texts to a modern audience.
Edit: Egad, an Internet search on him as a public figure is problematic, to say the least. Canceled, contrite, and trying to rehabilitate his image online. Nothing is ever simple anymore.
Judging academics by the standards of poets telling folk stories from memory is fun to think about, but doesn't seem like a good idea.
I don't know the history enough to spot errors. Some earlier essays were pretty surreal, though.