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A Substack newsletter on AI and culture, a monthly column in BookBrunch, and peer-reviewed academic work published in the UNESCO-affiliated JAISD journal.
Substack · Searshing for Meaning
The newsletter is for people who want to think carefully about what's happening, rather than be told it's either the best or worst thing that's ever occurred. I write about music, books, algorithms, and the weird feedback loops building up underneath all of it.
Not short. Not often enough. But I mean it when I do.
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A monthly column on AI and publishing. The title is technically inaccurate — but the point stands. I came at books sideways, through advertising and product, and that outside-in angle is mostly what the column is about.
What happens when the most influential new bookseller has never read a book — but has ingested millions of reviews, BookTok comments, and Goodreads threads? And what should publishers actually do about it?
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A paper introducing the Cultural Vitality Framework, published in the Journal of AI for Sustainable Development. It's a diagnostic for working out what AI is doing to cultural production across different domains — rather than assuming the answer is obvious either way.
The framework identifies four dimensions of cultural health (discovery breadth, critical evaluation, economic sustainability, and authenticity demand) and traces how generative AI affects each.
Read the paperSpeaking invitations, AI strategy conversations, potential collaborations, or anything that touches any of this. I'm easy to reach.
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