The Narrator & Editor's Etc.

Gabbler: COGS rate GODs is back, baby. What was supposed to be a series never took off. But here we are for a relaunch. But much lower pressure! BLA: Hell yeah. What’s funny is our series came out the same month and year as John Green’s Anthropocene Reviewed. Ratings were a big thing back then amongst humans, I guess? Still are. G: But we’re not reviewing human things. We’re reviewing the…

Donna Haraway, please way in.

Both volumes 1 and 2 are currently free. While you might know volume 1 is permafree (fine, compare us to a drug dealer), we need you to now volume 2 is free for a limited time as a Kindle ebook here.

Both volumes 1 and 2 are currently free. While you might know volume 1 is permafree (fine, compare us to a drug dealer), we need you to now volume 2 is free for a limited time as a Kindle ebook here.

Both volumes 1 and 2 are currently free. While you might know volume 1 is permafree (fine, compare us to a drug dealer), we need you to now volume 2 is free for a limited time as a Kindle ebook here.

But this is a fundamental difference between art and content. The art exists without you, and it has to stand up for itself. You cannot follow it around explaining why you did the things you did, or apologizing for it, or even speaking for it, because it is separate from you and it is finished. A book exists forever on its own, and even by the time it is published you will have changed as a…

Edith set out to create an entirely new version only of Thomas Bulfinch’s first mythology book, The Age of Fable, which had contained Greek, Roman, and Norse myths. Bulfinch, who had received his education in classics at the Boston Latin School and at Harvard, had died in 1867, the year Edith was born. He had been a Boston bank clerk when he had published The Age of Fable, which was subsequently…

If the author as the principal figure of literary authority and accountability came into existence at a particular time and place, there could conceivably also be a point at which it ceased to fulfill this role. That is what Barthes signaled in his now-famous essay. The “death of the author” does not mean the end of the life of any particular individual or even the end of human writing, but the…

How does Cohn suggest we write about animals? First, through “lyrical description,” which helps “reframe our understanding of belonging in a time of exigency.” Novelists may be catching up to what poets have long known: that lyric, as a less anthropocentric mode, might hold capacities that traditional narration lacks. Lyric, with its vividness, concreteness, and immanence, dodges the usual…

I teach a course called “How to Think About Animals,” in which we read T.H. Huxley’s classic paper “On the Hypothesis That Animals Are Automata and Its History,” published in the journal Nature in 1874. Huxley (1825–1895), nicknamed Darwin’s Bulldog for his fierce defense of Natural Selection against the counter-tide of Victorian sentiment, recounts sympathetically how one of the greatest…

The doubles mentioned here are statements on capitalism and argued to be acceptances of AI (or The Other in general?). But may I suggest a version of a double that wasn’t forced onto someone because of capitalism and is more so a statement on trans-humanism?