Kirsten
@rootyarn
Following threads of not knowing and seeing what structures they form. Delighting in the pulse of life and the moment. Trusting in living systems, the cosmos and the trip that is life.
Kirsten
rootyarn.com
I’ve been teaching creative writing for many years. And teaching writing is a weird thing, because it’s not just about helping students master a subject. It’s really about helping them discover what stories they’re meant to tell, how best to tell those stories, and how to overcome the inhibitions that inevitably arise when we seize the mantle of... See more
Steve Almond Tells Us
AI can and will ruin your voice and credibility if you lazily let it write in your place. As writers we can not allow AI to replace our own thinking. We should use it to simulate the thinking of a missing dialogue partner. To write better, we need to think more, not less.
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iA • Writing With AI
While we speak, brain activity increases early on in sentences, anticipating structure building. In contrast, during listening, brain activity increased at the end of phrases, reflecting the integration of sentence structure.
Peter Hagoort • Brain responses to sentence structure differ for speaking and listening | Max Planck Institute
Could be interesting for writing - would expect similar need to anticipate sentence structure to start building sentence. What skills are needed to anticipate the structure?
Then with writing also have opportunity to integrate the sentence structure and make possible changes. What skills are needed there?
Attention Required! | Cloudflare
awesomebooks.com
A tradeoff occurs every time you get feedback. You become slightly more mainstream, slightly more aligned with the zeitgeist. You become marginally more of an exploiter than an explorer , standing on the shoulders of the giants who conceived the paradigm you’re striving to build upon. This is very effective when you want to align your work with... See more
Leber • The Feedback Tradeoff
And silence is one of the great victims of modern culture. We live in an intense and visually aggressive age; everything is drawn outwards towards the sensation of the image. Because culture is becoming ever more homogenized and universalist, image has such power. With the continued netting of everything, chosen images can immediately attain
... See moreJohn O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
Can compliance lead to alexithymia? I (and my photobomber!) have been loving “The Gold Standard Fallacy of ABA” by Julie Roberts. It is so important that we recognize and learn about the dangers of compliance—including how it can condition a person to ignore their inner feels to earn external rewards. This conditioning to ignore inner feels can... See more
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Hmm this really makes me think of how artists bring so much more to the art which an algorithm cannot anticipate. Artists with their feeling bodies are tapped into the pulse of time and societal shifts and their own human experience. Art often therfore alerts to collective or social phenomena and are therefor not just pretty pictures or entertainment. Like the last paragraph of this article in that regard. Creativity and art are there to push back against all of this. Getting back to creating outside the algorithm seems related to being human outside the algorithm which is linked to so many things. Thin extension to media and things Douglas Rushkoff talks about. Narratives shape.
‘Why do we attend to the things to which we attend?’
Harold Innis (Canadian media theorist)