Trunk
An ongoing collection of research and reference material re: memory work. This is a living document — sections will grow over time.
Contents
The Millennial Epoch
Separate from the millennial age cohort, and much like the volta in poetry, an epoch references a turn in history characterized by dramatic change in perspective.
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In 2004, a well known cult-classic called Mean Girls graced our screens with the above quote. Fittingly, the characters in the movie are the eldest of an age cohort, dubbed Millennials by pop-sociologists Neil Howe and William Strauss, that came of age at the turn of the millennium. The lives of these individuals, and those succeeding them, have been dictated by a confluence of sociopolitical and -economic events. Such as:
- Post-Late-Capitalism
- Ronald Reagan
- War on Drugs
- Maturity Ratings
- Columbine
- y2k
- 9/11
- Hurricane Katrina
- 2008 Market Crash
- Gig Economy
- Data Colonialism
- Resilience Narrative
- White Supremacy
- Police Brutality
- MAGA
- Covid-19
- Artificial Intelligence
The Social Archive
It is a marker of 21st century life that a large percentage of our cultural history has been digitally recorded online. The web can then be classified as an archive. More importantly, the web allows us to participate in the accumulation of objects — what gets included or excluded is a communal effort, giving new depth to archival value.
The web was built on a vision of a universally-linked hypertext communications system. It has offered us a lot more than that. It is a network-informed economy. It is a history built on parallel truths. It is, by all intentions, participatory.
Born Digital
Memes
AI Reception
Our search engines, social media, and even some publications have implemented AI tools. Is AI being superimposed? Here is a comparison of published statements on AI generated content.
Collected for reference and research, please reach out to submit or withdraw statement.
HuffPost
The website's search feature is powered by OpenAI and contains a warning about possible inaccuracies.
Chestnut Review
Promises to permanently ban any author whose work is discovered or identified as AI-generated.
Also promises that they do not use AI tools.
Bluehorse Press
With an emphasis, AI-generated content lacks integrity.
Cleaver Magazine
Diversity does not include AI "voices"
Indianapolis Review
NOT interested, unless something like a collage or a cento.
Raleigh Review
YOU be your own judge & be upfront.
Cited in the recent publication, "Large language models pass a standard three-party Turing Test" C.R. Jones & B.K. Bergen: In an account of his experience as a human witness for a Turing test competition, Brian Christian considered what it would mean for a machine to pass.
B. Christian, The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us about What It Means to Be Alive (Anchor, 2011).
After Dinner Conversation
Tried it, didn't like it.
Alternative Milk Magazine
Baltimore Review
AI is mad annoying bro
Brevity Magazine
Epistemic Lit
Strictly forbidden
Et Sequitur Magazine
In whole, in part, or in any way.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry
Only human, with the typos
Hex Literary
Hippocampus Magazine
YOU are the visuals baby!
Josephine Quarterly
MUSE Literary Journal
Okay Donkey Magazine
They are trusting you!
One Art Poetry
About as welcome as your cat's or dog's artistic creations.
Palette Poetry
Immediately no.
Phoebe Journal
Ethical reasons, a plethora of them.
Radon Journal
HARD pass
Rattle
Please explain why you would possibly need AI to assist your writing process.
Seaside Gothic
Specific af, will ban for life.
The Fool's World
Strictly banned.
The Wild Umbrella
In. Any. Part.
Trampset
Tramps, yes! AI, no...
Variant Literature
Foglifter Journal
AI isn't a medium, it cannot talk to ghosts.
Ploughshares
Oof, are the robots writing manuscripts?!
The Southern Review
Allowed? Must disclose.
Torch Magazine
Blackbird