Mike Hobson

@hobsonmike

I’m an editor and graphic designer who enjoys playing the drums, running, meditating, and reading.

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The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint

The document discusses the drawbacks of using PowerPoint for presentations, including its reduction of analytical quality, low resolution, and reliance on bullet lists that dilute thought.

inf.ed.ac.uk

Nightwood and the "Terror of Uncertain Signs” Laurentis

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes explores the ambiguity and uncertainty of signs and language through its stark and allusive narrative, challenging the reader's expectations and understanding of meaning.

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Literary Criticism and

Lumiere: A Space-Time Diffusion Model for Video Generation

arxiv.org

Go outside and

The rise and fall of robots.txt

David Pierce theverge.com

AI and

Creatures of the dark

Jeanette Winterson

theguardian.com

Modernism and

“The perfume that her body exhaled was of the quality of that earth-flesh, fungi, which smells of captured dampness and yet is so dry, overcast with the odour of oil of amber, which is an inner malady of the sea, making her seem as if she had invaded a sleep incautious and entire. Her flesh was the texture of plant life, and beneath it one sensed a

Books Worth Revisiting and

The Internet Archive Provides a Model of Free Knowledge for All

Bette Adriaanse jacobin.com

Information Ecology and

The prescriptive forms of the art world, as in the real world, alienate us from ourselves and our neighbors. It’s normal to make art. This is a manifest truth that is obscured by the institutional imperative to contain and monopolize awe.

Elisabeth Nicula • A Body That’s All Surface

art and commerce and art