richardacarter.bsky.social
Academic in Digital Culture, University of York, UK. Exploring digital art, literature, and storytelling; ecology, materiality, and the more-than-human. Glider pilot. https://richardacarter.com/
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Thank you so much - it is something of an experiment, a process as much as an outcome, but I do hope it engages.
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It has definitely not escaped me the resonances it carries with your recent book! (Nay, outright entanglements). It is no question a very experimental effort - as much a process than an outcome - but I very much hope you can enjoy it when it does come out.
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Thank you so much - it's the most formally experimental text I've yet managed to assemble, so it'll be different, if nothing else..
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I should note that I am sharing / announcing this now purely because I have only just noticed it up on the Punctum site. The resonances with the current moment are not lost on me, and, unfortunately, I rather fear this will only grow by the time it is eventually published.
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I actually produced the core manuscript back in Oct. 2021, and then immediately left it aside, unsure whether to take it further. The world it depicts has only intensified in the years since then, with the advent of generative AI, highly automated modes of warfare, and exponential ecological harms.
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Yes, definitely remember this from when I was an undergraduate, but never heard this in the context of AI + education (perhaps just as well!)
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*Keeping definition of 'exhibitions' deliberately broad here, and so encompassing both artistic and 'educational' instances.
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Praise for the Fairey Gannet - that most dieselpunk of planes #aviation
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It was a pleasure to read, and brought together a few threads that certainly resonate with my own practices around digital systems, conflict, and the more than human world. One I'll absolutely be using in future research and reflections - thank you for writing it.
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Anyway, there's no moral to this late lunch reflection, except to acknowledge that it's a world that I still quietly miss, even with the gliding I do now. There was something embodied about it, and materially direct, in a way that wrestling with AI and algorithms and academic writing could never be.
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Today, I largely loathe driving - at least on an ordinary road - and I sometimes wonder whether I'd ever be quite as brave as I used to be, driving at speed on the circuit, with no protection other than the helmet and gloves. I'm not saying I was a great driver at all, but it was "very" fun.
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I'm still struck by how cool and optimised and austere they are. There's no visceral revving of motors, no carburettor induction roar, no cable adjustors, no whining gears, no hot exhausts, no fumes of petrol. It's a world I used to "live", and now I rarely mention it at all - vaguely embarrassed.
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For a point of context, this is not an emulator running in browser, it's an outright rebuild using the original assets with standard web technology. This sequence is slightly mocked up from the game, but it proves the point. Granular animations more challenging to do but not impossible.
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For context - richardacarter.com/nephoscope/
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Thank you for the kind mention 🙂 I'm looking forward to hearing more, in every sense, about your sitcom 🌿
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I think it will be a great conversation - it would be splendid to have you there!
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I guess I need to approach academic writing like Pak did with technology - When I write, I feel I'm badly emulating the voice of a system, rather than telling a story. I do have a book, an unusual one, that will be coming out anon, which tries to do this. I can only hope I'll get away with it.
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I can only assume that colleagues who readily write can, and do, find this solace and hope and greater meaning and potential in such work, and for that I am only delighted for them.
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Now, please let me say, that I don't believe my academic work somehow deserves more than this, but just that it often feels so abstracted from who I am and want to be in the world. More to the point - so distant from any capacity to affect it positively, even for those near and dear to me.
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Virtually all my academic writing has been done for other people - to explain myself, and as evidence that I'm doing work that can be readily metricated and assessed by the academic system. It has never, as far as I can tell, held much, or any value beyond this basic task.
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Perhaps the route back to this is art. This I do value - perhaps beyond any sensible reason - and it brings solace in a way that few other things do. Even though I do make it so that others will hopefully enjoy, I also certainly make it for me: as a way of marking the register of my being in time.
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I don't actually mean this as an expression of low mood, but I'm feeling more radically disconnected from any personal investment in the logic and value of academic writing than I've ever felt previously. In the past I could indeed blame low mood, but not this time. This time I feel profoundly tired
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I'm sorry I can't be there! I hope it's gone well and that it's a great day tomorrow
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I'm unfortunately not able to come down for this, but if anyone does and is able to share some pictures, I'd love to see them!