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Jun 25, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Shannon Vallor
Welcome to NewsBreak, an open platform where diverse perspectives converge. Most of our content comes from established publications and journalists, as well as from our extensive network of tens of thousands of creators who contribute to our platform. We empower individuals to share insightful viewpoints through short posts and comments.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
bigthink.com | Shannon Vallor
Excerpted from The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking by Shannon Vallor. Copyright © 2024 by Shannon Vallor and published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Consider the image that appears in your bathroom mirror every morning. The body in the mirror is not a second body taking up space in the world with you. It is not a copy of your body. It is not even a pale imitation of your body. The mirror-body is not a body at all.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
techtelegraph.co.uk | Shannon Vallor
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher (Little, Brown)As a blogger, columnist and podcaster, Swisher is one of the most readable and best-connected critics of our digital age. Here she gets up close and personal with the likes of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
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May 31, 2024 | 
iai.tv | Shannon Vallor |Nolen Gertz
AI's promise was to solve problems, not only of the day but all future obstacles as well. Yet the hype has started to wear off. Amidst the growing disillusionment, Nolen Gertz challenges the prevailing optimism, suggesting that our reliance on AI might be less about solving problems and more about escaping the harsh realities of our time.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | David Masciotra |Stephen Puleo |Shannon Vallor |Shefali Luthra
Ben Wynne. Louisiana State Univ, $29.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-8071-8114-0Music historian Wynne (Something in the Water) scrupulously documents how Elvis’s 1956 hit song “Hound Dog” helped catapult rock ’n’ roll “into the American cultural mainstream.” Written for and performed by “blues belter” Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thorton in 1953, the song was covered by multiple artists before Elvis saw Freddie Bell and the Bellboys perform a sanitized and comedic rendition in Las Vegas in 1956.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | David Masciotra |Stephen Puleo |Shannon Vallor |Shefali Luthra
Chris Stein. St. Martin’s, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-28672-7Blondie guitarist Stein (Point of View) chronicles in this knockabout personal history the colorful scenesters, grueling gigs, and desperate scrounging for drugs that have marked his musical career.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | David Masciotra |Stephen Puleo |Shannon Vallor |Shefali Luthra
Glenn Kenny. Hanover Square, $32 (320p) ISBN 978-1-335-44962-7This raucous study from film critic Kenny (Made Men) examines the making and enduring cultural significance of Brian De Palma’s 1983 film, Scarface. Kenny describes how Al Pacino, impressed after watching Howard Hawks’s 1932 mobster flick of the same name, approached producer Marty Bregman about shooting a remake.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Hanif Abdurraqib |David Masciotra |Stephen Puleo |Shannon Vallor
Hanif Abdurraqib. Random House, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-44879-3Cultural critic Abdurraqib (A Little Devil in America) returns with a triumphant meditation on basketball and belonging. Serving as a love letter to Abdurraqib’s hometown of Columbus, Ohio, and the state more broadly, the book is structured like a basketball game, divided into four “quarters” with game clock time stamps demarcating section breaks.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | David Masciotra |Stephen Puleo |Shannon Vallor |Shefali Luthra
Zachary Small. Knopf, $32 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-53675-9“The contemporary art market has served as an economic laboratory for the rich to develop a shadow banking system of alternative assets and hedged liquidity,” according to this trenchant debut investigation. New York Times reporter Small argues that non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are “financial tools branded as digital art” and traces the rise and fall of the NFT market through vivid profiles of artists swept up in it.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Sly Stone |David Masciotra |Stephen Puleo |Shannon Vallor
Roots drummer Questlove (Music Is History) lays down a kaleidoscopic chronicle of hip-hop’s 50-year history of “diversity and vision... flummery and flaws,” beginning with the 1973 Bronx party during which DJ Kool Herc began isolating and repeating songs’ beats on turntables.
