Tag Archives: Mike Reeves-McMillan

Jul 13

Language shapes culture as well as the other way around.

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Language shapes culture as well as the other way around. (And that, apparently, is a sentence that would be phrased quite differently in Chinese.)

Originally shared by Conscious Style Guide

“A deeper kind of worry about our fondness for nouns occurs to me: does it happen, perhaps, that speakers of English are drawn to believe that certain things exist because nouns that serve as their labels exist? Might it be only the labels that exist?”—Perry Link, author of “An Anatomy of Chinese” (Harvard University Press)

http://ow.ly/NYWl302di4W

Jul 12

I’m entirely serious when I say that the situation this article describes – the replacement of checked facts with…

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I’m entirely serious when I say that the situation this article describes – the replacement of checked facts with manufactured clickbait, and the fragmentation of society into fact-free bubbles – is one of my biggest concerns for the survival of our civilization.

It’s long, but that’s because there’s a lot to say, and all of it is good stuff. Please read it and reflect.

Via Charlie Kravetz.

Originally shared by DeeAnn Little

(for later reading)

via https://twitter.com/datatheism

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jul/12/how-technology-disrupted-the-truth

Jul 12

I am, of course, particularly aware of this, as a non-US author.

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I am, of course, particularly aware of this, as a non-US author.

I have more than once given stories a US setting, although I’ve never lived there.

Originally shared by Darusha Wehm

The Diversity Problem in SFF We Don’t Talk About. (Spoilers: it’s geographical dominance). An analysis.

Spoilers: it’s US cultural dominance. We all know that there is a long history in literature in general, and speculative literature in particular, of amplifying dominant voices to the exclusion of other stories. But we are getting better. Campaigns like…

http://darusha.ca/blog/the-diversity-problem-in-sff-we-dont-talk-about/
Jul 11

One of the things I find interesting about this that the article doesn’t mention is that Christie claimed she didn’t…

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One of the things I find interesting about this that the article doesn’t mention is that Christie claimed she didn’t know in advance who the murderer was. She’d decide late in the book, and then go back and revise to point the appropriate clues to them.

So if she really was writing to a formula, it was largely unconscious.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11779272/Experts-devise-formula-to-crack-Agatha-Christies-murder-mysteries.html