christopher webb
@christopherwebb.bsky.social
Writer & critic, work in @theguardian.com, @1854.photography, @spikeart.bsky.social, @litreview.bsky.social, @thetls.bsky.social etc. Author of Useless Activity, now out in paperback 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞: https://tinyurl.com/livupwebb 𝗪𝗘𝗕𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗘: https://christopher-webb.com
Wrote on Michael Smith’s excellent Strangers on the Shore ( @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social ) for this month’s @litreview.bsky.social — I hope you find a copy and enjoy it as much as I did literaryreview.co.uk/sea-sand-sor...
Christopher Webb - Sea, Sand & Sorrow
Christopher Webb: Sea, Sand & Sorrow - Strangers on the Shore by Michael Smith
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this weekend, I had a double-page spread on @katherinedunn.bsky.social’s history of #GPS, Little Blue Dot, for the @telegraph.co.uk—which I enjoyed very much, published by Mudlark/ @harpercollins.bsky.social in the UK on the 18 June.
I wrote on @sarahoconnorft.ft.com ‘s excellent (and beautifully written) We Are Not Machines for @thespectator1828.bsky.social spectator.com/article/will...
Will robots simply bore us to extinction?
A few years ago, when ChatGPT and Claude were beginning to take off, some tech leaders seemed to develop a curious interest in oceanography. Consider, for instance, the Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s s...
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A way into Shakespeare through the weather forecast? A little look at almanacs, biography, and climate… open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...
Shakespeare under the Weather
Forecasting what Shakespeare was thinking, via almanacs and climate...
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I wrote about Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism for @theguardian.com —it’s a brilliant take on why we ought to focus on the hellish 21st century update on Fordism rather than the man himself.
i wrote an essay on moltbook and non-human performance art for @spikeart.bsky.social which i’d like you to read spikeartmagazine.com/articles/ess... #moltbook #spikeartmagazine #iancheng
Essay: “When Bots Watch Themselves” by Christopher Webb
Sure, you can doomscroll all day, but why not outsource that to an AI agent? On Moltbook, non-human performance art, and spectatorship’s new terms and conditions.
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Here’s my take on Cory Doctorow’s #enshittification published by @versobooks.bsky.social for @review31.bsky.social (give them a follow)— it’s funny, depressing but ultimately it’s a useful resource for working out why so many platforms increasingly offer up awful UX. review31.co.uk/article/view...
End-stage Rot
Review 31 is an online literary review.
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wrote a short piece on @bruceholsinger.bsky.social 's very fun new novel, Culpability, for @thetls.bsky.social, which imagines a near-future where we still haven't worked out who is responsible for mistakes made by emerging forms of tech like AI: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat... #BookReview
Life on autopilot
What happens when we outsource our daily decision-making to a highly capable yet sometimes unpredictable technology, such as artificial intelligence? And
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Check out my review of @andrewgallix.bsky.social 's novel Loren Ipsum in Literary Review | 'Beware the Baguette' 🥖 literaryreview.co.uk/beware-the-b...
Christopher Webb - Beware the Baguette
Christopher Webb: Beware the Baguette - Loren Ipsum by Andrew Gallix
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'Some of what we did became a thing' | Review 31 - here are my thoughts on Joanna Walsh's Amateurs! which publishes today with @versobooks.bsky.social review31.co.uk/article/view...
‘Some of what we did became a thing'
Review 31 is an online literary review.
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Review: In "Read Write Own", the Andreessen Horowitz general partner and web3 superfan Chris Dixon lays out an unconvincing argument that blockchains are what it will take to fix the web. www.citationneeded.news/review-read-...
Review: Chris Dixon's Read Write Own
Prominent crypto venture capitalist Chris Dixon provides an unconvincing bible for blockchain solutionists.
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Tech bros *hate* RSS because it is a way for information to go directly between authors and audience without them being able to extract rents in between.
John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰@johngordon.bsky.social · 2y ago“RSS is dead, he repeats endlessly throughout the book.” There is something about RSS that really bugs the tech bros.
