Read Against the Machine: Galatea 2.2 and AI “Human” Thought

Richard Power’s novel Galatea 2.2 follows a journey into the construction of artificial intelligence to replicate literary criticism. Autumn Huxtable explores how the novel highlights the uniqueness of human thought in the wake of AI, and the ethical questions of what constitutes “human” and “machine”.

My search for ‘good’ horror movies

Back in March, my friends and I shut my living room curtains, switched off the lights and sat down to watch Ari Aster’s infamous Hereditary. Disturbingly creative body horror and a harrowingly captivating performance from Toni Collette as main character Annie seemed to promise that we’d be swiftly recommending the film to everyone we knew. […]

The evolution of feminist science fiction

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