Paul Kingsnorth
English writer living in the west of Ireland; former deputy editor of The Ecologist, co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project, author of The Wake and Against the Machine.
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Their wordsThose machines will be writing books soon enough, which leaves those of us who love words in an awkward position.
↗Hermit Crab Presspaulkingsnorth.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBut now I find myself in a world flooded with words, more and more of which are literally inhuman.
↗Hermit Crab Presspaulkingsnorth.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsWe spurn AI at all stages of the production process.
↗Hermit Crab Presspaulkingsnorth.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsWhat I learned was that when the silence descends on you, it happens for a reason. When you feel the need to be quiet - when, in fact, it feels quite clearly like a spiritual compulsion - then you need to follow the feeling.