Generally when I post an article to 3 Quarks Daily I will follow up with a post here at New Savanna linking to the 3QD piece and extending or commenting on that argument in some way. However, as I’ve indicated in this post, Coming out of melancholy, again, from Feb. 5, I went into psychological hibernation (aka melancholy) last September. While I did manage to post to 3QD during that period, I didn’t post notices here at the Savanna. Here are those notices, belatedly.
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Some Hybrid Remarks on Man-Machine Collaboration, September 12, 2025.
That essay touches on a number of things: 10 LLMs as cultural technology, 2) my Fourth Arena concept, 3) Latour on the (false) distinction between nature and culture, and 4) the issue of how proper attribution for hybrid essays (essays where an AI played a significant role). In between 3 and 4 I inserted an essay by ChatGPT.
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: Into the Bopi with Steven Spielberg, Oct. 12, 2025.
It’s what its title suggests, an essay review of Spielberg’s film. It’s staged as a science fiction story, but is that really what it is, science fiction? From the article:
On the whole, my sense is that, in making this film Spielberg ventured into the bopi. And just what, pray tell, is that? I have the term from by friend, Charlie Keil. Early in his career he did fieldwork among the Tiv of Nigeria. The bopi is an area that’s set aside for children’s play. Moreover, adults are forbidden to enter the bopi. [...] But the whole film feels like an imaginative bopi. It’s a kid-centric world in which adults are an intrusive presence. [...]
Ultimately the story of E.T. seems to be almost an allegory or metaphor for art itself, a zone apart from the world into which we move to revivify and reconstruct.
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American Heartbreak: The ‘Urban Design Studio’ in Jersey City, Nov. 3, 2025.
This is a photo essay about a graffiti site in Jersey City, now demolished.
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