What's Happening? What's New? What's Evil?
Interesting writers to read:
'There’s a peculiar corner of the literary universe where books are less “read” and more “survived.” A shadow-library of tomes so labyrinthine, so mercilessly long, so proudly impenetrable that their cultural fame comes not from being enjoyed, but from being endured vicariously while never leaving the shelf.' Very true! I tried to read one or two of these many years ago.
Postmodern Iconoclast
Wierd works of literature
'When AI reshapes entire industries in months, when the knowledge embedded in a four-year degree decays before the student loan is repaid, what is higher education actually for?'
Carlo Iacono
University existential threat
'My speciality was a simple salad cream sandwich: just plain bread, dripping with the stuff. (Today, I live in Italy, where salad cream is nowhere to be found. How a country can consider itself civilised but lack salad cream is beyond me. Out of pure desperation, I once paid €23 for a jar on Amazon.)'
Paul Murphy
Paul Murphy's childhood in Swansea
'What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book because there would be no one who wanted to read one.' — Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation.
Although we are, thankfully, well out of the loop and have zero 'influence', out there are clever thoughtful writers and media shaping the new zeitgeist (see links below) well worth reading and following.
The People we actually read and follow:
Cory Doctorow, Joan Westenberg, Scott Galloway, Enrique Dans, Shankar Narayan, The Writing Cooperative, Wes O'Donnell. Yascha Mounk, The Free Press, Robert Reich, The Unreported Truth, Racket News, Tina Brown, Alberto Romero, Will Hayward, Nation.Cymru, The Daily Beast, Liminal Britain, Nasim Nicholas Taleb, Satirical Planet News, Hybrid Horizons, Paul Murphy, Postmodern iconoclast
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Read below our lists of articles by Medium writers we follow on topics of interest to our audience such as writing advice, politics, evil things happening in the world and more.
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Editors note. The topics, content and opinions in these linked articles are those of their authors. Read at your own discretion.
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