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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

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

Introducing Minus Theatre 2025, by way of Alejandro Zambra, Not to Read

Introducing Minus Theatre 2025, by way of Alejandro Zambra, Not to Read

Alejandro Zambra is writing in 2011, this about Animales domésticos, a book by Alejandra Costamagna. Titled "This is Like a Story by Alejandra Costamagna," it is collected in his Not to Read, Fitzcarraldo editions, 2018, a kind of "literary autobiography" says his translator, Megan McDowell—a

Robert Wilson (4 October 1941 – 31 July 2025)

Robert Wilson (4 October 1941 – 31 July 2025)

VISIONARY ONE OF THE FEW OF WHOM IT CAN BE SAID OF THE FEW IT CAN BE SAD There follows a resource from Time Sensitive, Robert Wilson interviewed by Spencer Bailey. I like it but I wasn't looking for this. I was looking (and I would like to

⑦ Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time (sections 16 – 18)

⑦ Enduring Dreams: a note on cinematic time (sections 16 – 18)

DURATION HAS THE QUALITY OF A MELODY If it glitches out it is no longer that melody. Any alteration in the intervals of time brings about qualitative change. The melody no longer makes sense or it makes a new kind of sense. He talks about a bell tolling. He hears

MINUS

MINUS

THEATRE The Minus Theatre Group practices a unique form of theatre which is open to all levels of experience, does not require any special skills and does not require mastery of English: it is a theatre language minus the mastery of literature, minus the masters, a theatre language based in

On the advent of AI

On the advent of AI

I think the advent of AI is similar to that of cinema. In this post I'm going to consider what changes. With cinema changes both our inner and outer experience of time. I believe cinema's affect to have been as rapid as its spread, which was

unpacking the rat in the box

unpacking the rat in the box

It seems I'm far more tentative than ChatGPT 4o. Asked about the Skinner box analogy in part 1 of On AI: what do you make of the Skinner box analogy? that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, neuroscience-inflected neoliberalism, stimulus-response theory, put us in the box? The AI answered*: *[Caution is

On AI: part I by Simon Taylor; part II a self-portrait by Chat GPT 4o*

On AI: part I by Simon Taylor; part II a self-portrait by Chat GPT 4o*

*resources follow, at the end of part 1, in the interval, they give a complete and detailed record of the language-prompts and the responses On AI: part 1 My critical attitude towards AI has been directed towards the error of attributing to it consciousness or self-awareness, by way of the