Probes
Vian Andrews is out in the olive orchards, clearing brush from under the trees and thinking about ChatGPT and the future of artificial and other kinds of intelligence. The latest passage from Andrews’ journal about life in the Umbrian countryside, “Scribbles from Italy.”
Read MoreA tour through the history of writing. From David Shields’ 2010 manifesto, “Reality Hunger.” Time for a second look.
Read MoreBrian Fawcett learns about the gory details of life on the farm. Ch. 4 of “The Sussex Variations.”
Read MoreFrom the Archives: Twenty years ago, the U.S. invaded Iraq. Here’s what Dooney’s said two decades ago about the American imperial “punitive expedition,” as it rolled across Iraq.
Read MoreBrian Fawcett learns about males and females, both human and porcine, on a pig farm in Sussex, England in the early 1960s.
Read MoreVian Andrews hiking and thinking in the Umbrian countryside, amid olive groves in the rain and “sentieri” paths between mountain hamlets.
Read MoreBrian Fawcett’s “Sussex Variations, or Two Boars,” Ch. 2. People feel distress. So do pigs. Living and learning on an English farm.
Read MoreFrom the Archives: How to keep thinking and acting during and after the Apocalypse. Daniel Gawthrop has some practical suggestions.
Read MoreBrian Fawcett, age 18, from northern British Columbia, arrives at his uncle’s and aunt’s pig farm in Sussex, England, and comes-of-age as two 400-pound boars charge into battle.
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