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gamiri, 3 months ago to sciencefiction

We're thrilled to see EM Forster's short story "The Machine Stops" available now on Project Gutenberg (@gutenberg_org) https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/72890

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

#projectgutenberg #gutenberg #emforster #themachinestops #publicdomain #sciencefiction #shortstory #scifi

gamiri, 4 months ago to literature

mat-real : Material Realisms in Contemporary British Literature

> We aim to engage with texts that process our new experience of such realities and present a universe characterised by an “enmeshing of matter and thought, of embodied aesthetic experience and critical experience"...a far cry from the binarisms of yesteryear and the metafictional defamiliarization that went along with them.

7-8 November 2024

https://mat-real.sciencesconf.org/

#conferences #metafiction #literature #uk #fr @bookstodon

gamiri, 5 months ago to ArtificialIntelligence

Jan 11 "Authors Cory Doctorow Ken Liu and Martha Wells will take part in "Speculating About Our AI Future" through Zoom at 7 p.m. They plan to talk about the promise, perils and potential impact #artificialintelligence will have on the future."

https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/jacksonville-public-library-hosts-ai-panel-18577124.php

@pluralistic #illinois

gamiri, 5 months ago to random

Does anyone know why E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" is not available on gutenberg.org?
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/975

archive.org features a scanned copy:
https://archive.org/details/e.-m.-forster-the-machine-stops_202008

And Wikisource serves it in full, too, explicitly noting that this text is in the public domain:
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

Perhaps there is some #copyright nuance at work, discouraging PG from hosting it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gutenberg#Copyright

#publicdomain #emforster #SteamboatWillie

// cc @gutenberg_org

gamiri, 6 months ago to art

Smithsonian Magazine: A Contemporary Look at Asian Art

"The new galleries—the first dedicated solely to modern and contemporary art in the museum’s 100-year history—build on the museum’s established practice of exhibiting and collecting late-20th and 21st-century Asian art...'Park Chan-kyong: Gathering' will launch the museum’s next chapter & engage visitors in the myriad formats and media employed..."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/impact/2023/11/28/contemporary-look-asian-art/

#MastoArt #art #Asia #Smithsonian

gamiri, 1 year ago to random

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