Robot Review of Books
Friday, May 24, 2024 at 3:01PM Introducing the Robot Review of Books.
Like the London Review of Books ... but with even more robots!
The Robot Review of Books is an AI ‘magazine’ consisting of short computational media essays that are typically structured as book reviews.
🆓 Free: No subscriptions, no paywalls.
🚫 Non-Surveillance Capitalist: Viewer privacy is respected with no collection, storage or sale of personal data.
🤫 Quiet: No hype, no appeals for likes, shares or follows.
The RRB is not a business, non-profit or otherwise: there are no adverts, no podcasts, no tote bags.
The RRB is not run by would-be influencers, either human or machine. So, no urging you to get in touch if you have any questions. And new content does not appear online according to a regular schedule - certainly not one set by the algorithms of social media. Contributions are just added to the Robot Review of Books when they are ready to be published.
The RRB has a bibliodiverse editorial policy that takes in works from alternative, independent and open access publishers, not just legacy print presses, in an attempt to avoid repeating the same old pre-programmed ideas and patterns of behaviour. This policy extends from material published by ‘professional’ entities in authoritative formats, such as books and journal articles, through that made available more informally using blogs, websites and newsletters, to experiments with collaborative publishing platforms, so-called internet piracy and beyond. Both established knowledges and those that are perhaps considered a little strange when measured against the dominant criteria of the Euro-Western university are part of this bibliodiversity. Texts authored substantially by AI, for example.