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Roger Holden: Collaborating on the Computer with William S. Burroughs A Follow-Up to “Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer” by Roger Holden I would like to take this opportunity to thank Jed Birmingham for his courteous offer to submit this correction to his essay “Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer.” The premise of his essay was that, to his knowledge, Burroughs seems to have avoided using the computer for any of his creative work. “What would Burroughs have done,” Birmingham writes, “with an Ian Sommerville-type collaborator who knew the nuts and bolts of computers and the Internet, was aware of their philosophical and cultural implications, and also possessed a desire to expand the medium creatively? Also on page 149, note 333 says: “The title ‘cybernetic cut-ups’ was coined by Holden in a letter to the author June 15, 1995.”
The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do. Writing is a muscle. Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get stronger. Think of your words as reps, your paragraphs as sets, your pages as daily workouts. Think of your laptop as a machine like the one at the gym where you open and close your inner thighs in front of everyone, exposing both your insecurities and your genitals. Procrastination is an alluring siren taunting you to google the country where Balki from Perfect Strangers was from, and to arrange sticky notes on your dog in the shape of hilarious dog shorts. The blank white page. Mark Twain once said, “Show, don’t tell.” Finding a really good muse these days isn’t easy, so plan on going through quite a few before landing on a winner. There are two things more difficult than writing. It’s so easy to hide in your little bubble, typing your little words with your little fingers on your little laptop from the comfort of your tiny chair in your miniature little house.
10 Insanely Awesome Inspirational Manifestos There are certain messages that serve to get you “back to one” when you find you’re going off course. Whether you use tools such as a manifesto, a personal mission statement, a vision board or a list similar to Benjamin Franklin’s “13 Virtues”, taking the time to identify with one and then keeping it handy is worthwhile – and perhaps even imperative. But in a lot of cases you don’t have to “reinvent the wheel”; there are some awesome inspirational manifestos that have already put out there for you to look at and use as a means to set you back on course. Some come in the form of an image, some as a video, and some as nothing more than a blog post. 1. This is one of the best known ones on the web. 2. Baz Luhrman, best known as the director of films like “Strictly Ballroom” and “Moulin Rouge!” 3. the lululemon manifesto The corporate manifesto for thsi athletic wear company may very well be a bellwether for a shift in the culture of the new enterprising set. 4. 5. 6. 8. 9. focus 10.
Derrière les barreaux : 11 livres de prison de Victor Hugo à Jack Abbott - Photos de Fluctuat La nouvelle édition des lettres et écrits de Jack Abbott, assassin et détenu éternel de QHS, libéré grâce à l’intervention de Norman Mailer et de quelques autres stars américaines, puis pénible récidiviste détraqué, finalement suicidé en 1982, est l’occasion de faire un petit état de la littérature de taulards ou d’inspiration carcérale qui sous le vocable de "prison literature" recouvre aux Etats Unis des livres écrits en prison (et qui n’en parlent pas nécessairement) comme Don Quichotte de Cervantes ou les Mémoires de Marco Polo et des ouvrages plus directement connectés à la détention, à ses joies (minces) et ses peines (lourdes). Le point commun de ces livres est de représenter le choc entre une forme de franchise exacerbée et de sentimentalisme analytique et bien entendu une extrême dureté ou brutalité. Benjamin Berton
Neil Gaiman’s 8 Rules of Writing By Maria Popova In the winter of 2010, inspired by Elmore Leonard’s 10 rules of writing published in The New York Times nearly a decade earlier, The Guardian reached out to some of today’s most celebrated authors and asked them to each offer his or her commandments. After Zadie Smith’s 10 rules of writing, here come 8 from the one and only Neil Gaiman: WritePut one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.Put it aside. For more timeless wisdom on writing, see Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 rules for a great story, David Ogilvy’s 10 no-bullshit tips, Henry Miller’s 11 commandments, Jack Kerouac’s 30 beliefs and techniques, John Steinbeck’s 6 pointers, and Susan Sontag’s synthesized learnings. Image by Kimberly Butler
Singularité technologique Au-delà de ce point, le progrès ne serait plus l’œuvre que d’intelligences artificielles, ou « supraintelligence » qui s’auto-amélioreraient, de nouvelles générations de plus en plus intelligentes apparaissant de plus en plus rapidement, créant une « explosion d'intelligence » créant finalement une puissante superintelligence qui dépasserait qualitativement de loin l'intelligence humaine[1],[2],[3]. Le risque serait que l'humanité perde le contrôle de son destin[4]. L'auteur de science fiction Vernor Vinge est même convaincu, dans son essai La venue de la singularité technologique, que la singularité signifierait la fin de l'ère humaine[3], la nouvelle superintelligence continuant de s'améliorer et d'évoluer technologiquement à une vitesse incompréhensible pour les humains[5]. Cette notion de singularité technologique aurait été envisagée par John von Neumann dès les années 1950[6] et ses conséquences ont été débattues dans les années 1960 par I. J. Good. Lawrence Krauss et Glenn D.
Ink - Quotes about writing by writers presented by The Fontayne Group Writing "I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark." Henry David Thoreau "Writing is an adventure." Winston Churchill "Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them." Allan Gurganus "... only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things." "Whether or not you write well, write bravely." "The first rule, indeed by itself virtually a sufficient condition for good style, is to have something to say." The man who invented the Hollywood schlock machine The Proposal is formulaic. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 is formulaic. Imagine That is formulaic. Even Up is … "progressively more formulaic." But who came up with the formula? If you want the human embodiment of Hollywood predictability, you can't do better than Wycliffe A. It was a notion borne of failure. DeMille's prodding was perfectly timed; Hill wandered into a bookshop and found the new translation of French critic Georges Polti's Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations. What if together they made … a formula? Hill's Ten Million Photoplay Plots: The Master Key to All Dramatic Plots, a byzantine matrix of characters and conflicts designed to create endless plot combinations, was so novel when it debuted in 1919 that the slim guide sold for an eye-popping $5. There's plenty of quaint advice: Throw a punch in the first 200 feet of film; introduce a love interest within 500 feet. Hill wasn't about to lie down and take … well, whatever the hell this was. Perhaps that just proves his point.
Notre sélection des meilleurs livres de 2013 Il est encore plus présent sous les sapins que les chocolats, les parfums ou encore les jouets: selon une récente étude du cabinet Deloitte, le livre reste, année après année, le cadeau incontournable des fêtes. Pour ne pas choisir à l'aveugle, Slate a donc demandé à ses contributeurs de désigner le livre qui avait le plus marqué, dans leur domaine d'expertise ou non, leur année 2013. Politique, histoire, art, économie, littérature, en VF ou en VO: une sélection d'une trentaine d'ouvrages pour tous les goûts et les profils. publicité Arts: J.D. Sports: Dico culture illustré de Roland-Garros, de Julien Pichené et Christophe Thoreau; The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Football is Wrong, de Chris Anderson et David Sall Monde contemporain: Requiem pour l'espèce humaine, de Clive Hamilton; Propriété intellectuelle: géopolitique et mondialisation, de Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay et Hervé Le Crosnier; Jeunesses arabes. Histoire: Histoire de la Turquie. J.D. Bingo! Jeunesses arabes.