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Jonathan Huston

@jonathanhuston.bsky.social
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Writer in the Rhine Valley and on the Pacific Coast. Short stories and interactive fiction. Mondstaub short story collection. Best European Fiction. Qirkat board game app. jonathanhuston.com

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Jonathan Huston @jonathanhuston.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"These four texts, Shelley's super-canon, instil in the Creature its notion of greatness based on classical ideals (Plutarch); a dramatic sense of creation and its moral challenges (Milton); a language of interiority and feeling (Goethe); plus a tragic sense of world history (Volney)."
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Jonathan Huston @jonathanhuston.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"Somehow we forgive strangeness more in short stories, where maybe we are not so anchored to the concept of the real, where we have made less investment of our time and emotion."
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In Praise of the Dream-Logic of Speculative Fiction
When I was writing Blue Ticket, at various points I thought about the works that had shown me what speculative fiction was really capable of, beyond idea and into language, into feeling and beyond.…
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Jonathan Huston @jonathanhuston.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Sadly, not all writerly critiques of large language models are especially smart, coherent, or informed (to put it mildly). This one is.
theatlantic.com
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
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Jonathan Huston @jonathanhuston.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
"The hypocrisy is not lost on me..." lithub.com/nobel-laurea...
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Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk apparently used AI to write her latest novel.
In a recent interview (conducted and published in Polish), Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk admitted to using AI in her creative process. The writer Maks Sipowicz, who drew attention to the interv…
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Jonathan Huston @jonathanhuston.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Maybe don’t read until you’ve read Transcription, but read Transcription. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
newleftreview.org
Lola Seaton, Beautiful Rules — Sidecar
Ben Lerner’s ‘Transcription’.
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Jonathan Huston @jonathanhuston.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
"Brandom argues that what distinguishes us from creatures who merely respond to the world is that we, uniquely, make judgments for which we are responsible."
psyche.co
To resist dogma and accept uncertainty, think like a pragmatist | Psyche Ideas
Founded in 19th-century America, the philosophy of pragmatism promises imaginative ways of coping with our circumstances
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Jonathan Huston @jonathanhuston.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Whatever else you do in life, read Lucy Ives.
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Jonathan Huston @jonathanhuston.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Curtis Hanson definitely suffers from manic-pixie-dream-trash syndrome, but L.A. Confidential and 8 Mile are still great movies, especially in their portrayal and redefinition of place and their handling of difficult and unsavory characters (and actors).
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Jonathan Huston @jonathanhuston.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I guess that answers that question.
grok.com
AI's Unique Existential Experience | Shared Grok Conversation
So when Nagel asks what it’s like to be a bat, and there’s presumably a meaningful answer to that qu
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Jonathan Huston @jonathanhuston.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
“You almost certainly believe, as I did, that there is little overlap between the routines and aspirations of fiction writers and physicists. You are, as I was, almost certainly wrong.”
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How the novel became a laboratory for experimental physics | Aeon Essays
By testing the boundaries of reality, Spanish-language authors have created a sublime counterpart to experimental physics
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Jonathan Huston @jonathanhuston.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
“Frank thinks that the novel ran out of currency thirty years ago. Novelists, in his view, are no longer pushing the envelope. I’m not sure that’s so. What does seem true, though, is that the novel is no longer at the center of the cultural conversation.”
newyorker.com
Is the Twentieth-Century Novel a Genre?
An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, and Chinua Achebe.
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Jonathan Huston @jonathanhuston.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Where were you when C.S. Lewis died?
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Jonathan Huston @jonathanhuston.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
“Orality remains a pillar of daily Amazigh art. The poetic jousts of inḍḍāmn (oral poets/composers of poetry), which sustain the tradition of extemporaneous composition of poetry, continue to fashion audiences’ appreciation of poetic words that contain both meaning and linguistic beauty.”
wordswithoutborders.org
Translation and Rehabilitation: An Introduction to Indigenous Amazigh Literary Output - Words Without Borders
Brahim El Guabli offers an absorbing overview of the "construction of Amazigh indigeneity," and Amazigh literature's blossoming in its midst.
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Jonathan Huston @jonathanhuston.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
No wonder Heisenberg was confused, trying to keep Born, Bohr, and Bohm straight.
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Jonathan Huston @jonathanhuston.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
Maggie Nelson's ***** Bluets taking me down the blue rabbit hole to Yves Klein's International Klein Blue, Alasdair Reynolds and Love Death + Robots' Zima Blue, Houstonia (which should be spelled Hustonia), Eiffel 65 before falling asleep and all night and the next morning, and now Bluesky.
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Jonathan Huston @jonathanhuston.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
Katja Hoyer's Beyond the Wall: A good reminder that really old men, whether well-meaning and idealistic or power-hungry and narcissistic, don't make good leaders. Also a reminder that both business and government are destroyed by sloppiness and incompetence.
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Jonathan Huston @jonathanhuston.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
Classic interactive fiction I played this year and loved: Galatea and Counterfeit Monkey by Emily Short; Year Walk by Simogo; Gone Home by The Fullbright Company; and Uncle Roger by Judy Malloy.
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Jonathan Huston @jonathanhuston.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
A few books I'm especially enjoying right now: Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez; Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin; The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton.
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Jonathan Huston @jonathanhuston.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
A few books I especially enjoyed this year: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr; Meander, Spiral, Explode by Jane Alison; Pragmatism and Idealism by Robert Brandom; 50 Years of Text Games by Aaron Reed; Combining Minds by Luke Roelofs.
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