Literaturnobelpreis an Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Der Literaturnobelpreis geht an den ungarischen Schriftsteller Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Das gab die Schwedische Akademie am Donnerstag in Stockholm bekannt. Krasznahorkai, der 2021 mit dem Österreichischen Staatspreis für Europäische Literatur geehrt wurde, war bei den Wettquoten zuletzt unter den Favoriten. Er habe ihn telefonisch in Frankfurt erreicht und bereits erste Details für die Verleihung besprochen, sagte Akademie-Sekretär Mats Malm. ⌘ Read more

David and Margaret honoured with Walk of Fame star
Plus remembering queer literature icon Edmund White and Baby Reindeer’s creator is headed to Australia for a TV industry summit. ⌘ Read more

Rucknium completes first milestone for statistical research CCS proposal
Rucknium1 has completed2 the first milestone for their latest CCS proposal to conduct statistical research to improve Monero’s privacy 3:

I have completed Milestone 1. [..] I evaluated the possible privacy impact of allowing permissionless querying of nodes’ fluff-phase transaction pools. Using techniques from the “topology inference from cascades” research literature, th … ⌘ Read more

“It’s hard for a hungry man to swager”

This line from The Tale of Thorleif Earl’s Poet has gotta be one of the greatest lines from all of Icelandic saga literature. ⌘ Read more

A chat with author Morgan Richard Olivier
A best-selling author with an eye for wellness and an ear for motivational speaking recently published a new book called “The Strength That Stays.” For Morgan Olivier, the newest literature has served as therapy for both herself and her audiences. ⌘ Read more

pareto improvement: instead of letting students write bachelors/masters theses that are basically just literature reviews, let them rewrite the respective wikipedia articles instead (and then check the article)

Cowen’s second law: there is a literature on everything

Understanding Color Management
I worked on a project where I dived deep into understanding how modern
color management works, including things like color spaces, ICC profiles
and more. As I learnt here and there, I decided to write this post, both
for my future self, and others who may struggle with some of the
concepts as well.

This post only aims to help you understand the basic concepts without
having to delve into dense literature and hard to grok technical
documents.

Color … ⌘ Read more

Comp Lit: computational literature

@mdosch@mdosch.de I’m American. All I know about 90°C is that it‘s a reasonable sauna temperature; the literature tends to focus on saunas at 80°C and 100°C. I haven’t been in a sauna in months, and my body misses it.

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Victor Séjour’s Le Mulâtre https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/02/23/mulaitre.html #books #literature #blackhistorymonth #translation #french #announcement

Give the Nobel Prize in Literature to Dril | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/7245/give-the-nobel-prize-to-dril

holy shit did the domekano anime cut like most of the literature club shit? i don’t remember them going camping & hina getting stung by a wasp

A short history of 20th century African-American horror literature | jessnevins.com http://jessnevins.com/blog/?p=842

Band name of the day: invasion literature

Literature from Page to Interface: The Treatments of Text in Christophe Bruno’s Iterature http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/literature-from-page-to-interface-the-treatments-of-text-in-christophe-brunos-iterature/

Literary Texts as Cognitive Assemblages: The Case of Electronic Literature http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/literary-texts-as-cognitive-assemblages-the-case-of-electronic-literature/

Visualising Networks of Electronic Literature: Dissertations and the Creative Works They Cite http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/visualising-networks-of-electronic-literature-dissertations-and-the-creative-works-they-cite/

SCROLL / NETWORK / HACK: A Poetics of ASCII Literature (1983-1989) : Joel Katelnikoff : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/Katelnikoff_Joel_Fall-202013

Shuffle Literature and the Hand of Fate http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/shuffle-literature-and-the-hand-of-fate/

J.G. Ballard’s Experimental Text Collages: His 1958 Foray into Avant-Garde Literature | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/j-g-ballards-experimental-text-collages.html

CASTLE FREAK - Remote Residency for Generative Literature | inside the castle http://www.insidethecastle.org/castle-freak/

Almost every coverage of NaNoGenMo is spun around commercial applications of prose-generating tech or the lack thereof, but nobody involved (AFAIK) sees it as a business venture. They just want to do quantitative experiments on literature.

Hot take: it’s a good thing that genre films & genre literature aren’t taken seriously by the mainstream, because things that are taken seriously aren’t allowed to be interesting/experimental/meaningful. (See: Star Wars, & associated drama)

TBH there is nothing more cyberpunk than a world where actual politically-relevant cyberpunk literature is forgotten while shitty shallow corporatized versions with awful politics are blockbusters.

‘Doki Doki Literature Club’ Fits i… https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/kzp7gy/doki-doki-literature-club-history-visual-novels

Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature |… https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7

Doki Doki Literature Club (Zero Punctuation) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krq6-1ht_kk

Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans | Boston Review https://bostonreview.net/literature-culture/henry-farrell-philip-k-dick-and-fake-humans

Doki Doki Literature Club - A Metamodern Horror Game - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgTTDdzxqdo

Band name of the day: a literature of exhaustion

Band name of the day: instant literature

Free Will and Waifus - The True Horror of Doki Doki Literature Club - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qebsRBIleDY

Electronic Literature’s Contemporary Moment: Breeze and Campbell’s “All the Delicate Duplicates” - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/electronic-literature-turns-a-new-page-breeze-and-campbells-all-the-delicate-duplicates/

Code is not literature http://www.gigamonkeys.com/code-reading/

CASTLE FREAK - Remote Residency for Generative Literature | inside the castle http://www.insidethecastle.org/castle-freak/