Delany's "Aye, and Gomorrah" now online.
Dangerous Visions.
Welcome to Istanbul.
The second movement of Mozart's clarinet concerto.
The author's own website.
The Beckman Institute for interdisciplinary work, including human-machine interaction, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Powers's first two novels. Powers's well-received third.
A relatively accessible, and Pulitzer Prize-winning, source for Powers' thinking about AI.
Thinking again about ELIZA. Thinking about machine translation.
Thinking about time and fruit.
Lentz's "near-opaque glasses."
Computers used to be big.
An extremely important code.
A book of these things too.
Arts and sciences: language as against other kinds of experience and information.
Not all experience is verbal.
Can Richard ever belong here? What about here?
Extremely effective, and therefore unpredictable, learning machines.
Hey, Marcel...
Poems cited in Powers's first pages, by John Keats, and by Wallace Stevens, and by Keats again.
The hippocampus in your head.
A nice Dutch train. (Not sure whether it's running south.)
A book about the limits of novels' directional plot.
A book about the limits of tests.
Personhood: is it about having a human body? Or can you get it from these things?
Literature as connection.
Connecting this book to other books about paths. To other books about education.
Playing Mastermind and Connect Four.
Listening to Hopkins's "The Wind-Hover."
Listening to the Violent Femmes.
"A story about how we're all going to end up in cubicles."
A tangled web of connections.
Getting outside the wall or the bars of the self.
"Good girl outside."
Do you see a face? A face? A face?
Literature as escape. Or as escape.
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