Simon Taylor

It is risky to outsource human thought to machines that lack the capacity for such thought. — David B. Auerbach, Meganets, 2023, p. 239

death returns to the sea … is the other lyric running through my mind. I imagine it, am I imagining it?, sung, on the album September Songs, produced by Hal Willner, of Kurt Weill’s songs. “Just as you’ve destroyed your life …” is C.P. Cavafy’s. (“In these dark

One of these things is not like the other: … except that the deconstruction Auckland Council has in, I hesitate, mind in the official channel of communication using the term is only one of three options for the houses damaged when the last atmospheric river disgorged on the city … tonight another

257. This changing the coincidental to the inevitable in poetic imagination is no different from scientific imagination. Poetry is also a process of problem-solving and precise experimentation. But don’t forget, it is also a prank and a game. … and scientific imagination no less? … at what point does it cease

How to Live. What to Do. goes: These days I’m often regaled at the kitchen table by ‘origin stories’ of how some Marvel character or other attained their superhero status. I sometimes find myself wanting to ask the boy telling me them why use of this phrase is so

picked up a book, who knows why I ordered it, requested it, but I had. It was called True Detective, had a series of essays, ending with a visual essay, on the tv series of the same name. Eugene Thacker had written the blurb on the back and one of