This week's writing (6.16.23)
AI, comics, and an inconsequential mystery about Fort Worth.
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I’m experimenting with different kinds of writing this summer, but I’m particularly interested in covering the cultural implications of things like generative AI, climate change, and whatever fresh hell is served up by our current stage (late? post? meta?) of capitalism.
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This particular post is a round-up of all the writing I did last week. I’ll send these out on Fridays! My work is available wherever books are sold or at least in the following places:
Is this a dystopia yet?
Don't Buy Your Child a Robot Friend (Stop Gap)
Poetic brevity in the time of bullshit generators (Journal of Post American Studies)
Fort Worth
Investigating one of Fort Worth's least important mysteries. (Lost in Panther City)
The worst essay contest in American history (Lost in Panther City)
Books and Comics
Ordinary Despair: Tynan Stewart reviews Impossible People by Julia Wertz (SOLRAD)
A rundown of Julia Wertz’s comics (panthercitybooks)
A brief review of Brandon Taylor’s The Late Americans (panthercitybooks)