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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

"the Oort Cloud has been functioning for billions of years as a sort of 'natural LLM'"

"the Oort Cloud has been functioning for billions of years as a sort of 'natural LLM'"

—it is the “narraton particles” emitted from the Oort Cloud that explain the capacity of a certain well-known terrestrial species for telling stories, or in other words for presenting as true what is in fact false. –"Back from the Oort Cloud: An Interview with JSR in PLOOI Magazine,

อ่าวนาง, Ao Nang & ไร่เลย์, Railay Beach

อ่าวนาง, Ao Nang & ไร่เลย์, Railay Beach

Ao translates as bay and Nang, princess. Railay comes from a Malay word meaning rice-producing. Exploring the environs, forgoing the fondue, sitting beach-side into the sunset: then electricity: 0:00 /0:24 1× 0:00 /0:43 1× snaps of ventilated cars and obligatory cats: the loudest longtail

SYMPHONY

SYMPHONY

You are in a void. Describe the void. I have some notes here. Is this the moon? hanging no visible signs of support. poetry is for extracting one meaning puts down the notes straightens the pictures. to stop flapping is a relief to be done with the expectation collective action

I Am Out of Control of My Own Material

I Am Out of Control of My Own Material

Charles Stivale, a scholar I admire and to whom I have been grateful on more than one occasion (not least for sending me his recently published book, On Painting, 2025, a translation of Deleuze's 1981 seminars), graciously read my "Cinema Signifies a Change in the Fundamental Structure

Gemini AI summarises "Cinema Signifies ..." + notes on ontology, epistemology & phenomenology (4.07.2026)

Gemini AI summarises "Cinema Signifies ..." + notes on ontology, epistemology & phenomenology (4.07.2026)

Here is a summary of the article "Cinema Signifies a Change in the Fundamental Structure of Reality" by Simon Taylor: Core Thesis The article advances a post-cinematic theory of perception, arguing that cinema functions as a fundamental "perceiving principle" rather than just a medium or

Stuart Cooke reads Sergio Pitol's El arte de la fuga

Stuart Cooke reads Sergio Pitol's El arte de la fuga

1996 in Spanish 2015 in English George Henson's translation although, the following is Stuart Cooke's translation: ... a simple description, without additions, without delays, echoes or shadows, fatally reduces the power of the story, converts it into a mere anecdote—something vulgar, basically. Always, from the very

The Challenge of Writing a Novel: world, character creation and monstrosity

The Challenge of Writing a Novel: world, character creation and monstrosity

In April, 1975, Harlan Ellison invited the country's top science fiction writers of the day to participate in a unique science fiction conference at UCLA. Four of the writers would create a basic world and planetary system ... –Bill Ransom, from the Foreword to The Pandora Sequence, Bill Ransom