I was supposed to take part in a seminar next week, which I’ll have to miss, with a talk about how to use AI correctly. In this talk I was going to describe, once more, how the late Iain M. Banks presents AI in his Culture novels (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series). The Culture is a post-scarcity, […]
La semana que viene iba a participar en un seminario, que tendré que perderme, con una charla sobre cómo utilizar correctamente la IA. En esta charla iba a describir, una vez más, cómo el difunto Iain M. Banks presenta la IA en sus novelas sobre la Cultura (véase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series). La Cultura es una sociedad […]
The book I’m currently working on, a study of secondary characters, has a corpus composed of 19th century novels in diverse European languages. I started with nine authors, but I have decided to abandon Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf because I found it impossible to sustain my interest in her novel Gösta Berling’s Saga (1891), which […]
El libro en el que estoy trabajando actualmente, un estudio de los personajes secundarios, tiene un corpus compuesto por novelas del siglo XIX en diversas lenguas europeas. Empecé con nueve autores, pero he decidido abandonar a la escritora sueca Selma Lagerlöf porque me resulta imposible mantener el interés por su novela Gösta Berlings Saga (1891), […]
So, this woman, Fiona Hill, an Anglo-American academic, foreign affairs advisor and author, who since 2023 has served as Chancellor of Durham University, Wikipedia dixit, was interviewed on Chanel 4. Political activist George Conway posted a bluit highlighting her declaration that “The United States is on a path toward full-on state repression.” His post got […]
Fiona Hill, académica, asesora de relaciones exteriores y autora angloamericana, que desde 2023 se desempeña como rectora de la Universidad de Durham, fue entrevistada en Chanel 4 hace un par de días. El activista político George Conway publicó un bluit sobre la entrevista, destacando que, según Hill, “Estados Unidos va camino de la represión estatal […]
Sooo….. I asked ChatGPT after failing to find the information on Google about two matters. Here we go… I wrote: “I have read an academic book by Christopher Gillie called Characters in English Literature (1965), which has no bibliography. When did it become compulsory for academic books to have a bibliography or a works cited […]
Pues… caí en la tentación y le pregunté a ChatGPT, después de no poder encontrar la información en Google, sobre dos asuntos. Allá vamos… Escribí: “He leído un libro académico de Christopher Gillie llamado Characters in English Literature (1965), que no tiene bibliografía. ¿Cuándo se hizo obligatorio que los libros académicos tuvieran una bibliografía o […]
Continuing with my reading of bibliography on the minor characters, this week I’ve perused David Galef’s The Supporting Cast: A Study of Flat and Minor Characters (1993), a volume less well regarded than Alex Woloch’s The One and the Many but still quite remarkable. Whereas Woloch focuses on the 19th century novel (Austen, Dickens, Balzac), […]
Continuando con mi lectura de bibliografía sobre personajes secundarios, esta semana he repasado The Supporting Cast: A Study of Flat and Minor Characters (1993) de David Galef, un volumen menos conocido que The One and the Many de Alex Woloch, pero muy notable. Mientras que Woloch se centra en la novela del siglo XIX (Austen, […]