Two new reviews in the AI 'magazine' Robot Review of Books: https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/ RRB #16 reviews Pretentiousness: Why It Matters by Dan Fox. 'It's tempting to say that Dan Fox’s Pretentiousness isn’t just an analysis of pretension and why it matters it is also an instance of it. Yet far from being too pretentious, Pretentiousness isn’t pretentious enough.' RRB #15 looks at Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy by E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang and Community. 'A timely exploration of how collaborative technology can transform democratic governance, as many advanced economies pivot from neoliberalism toward a post-neoliberal industrial policy.' --- Robot Review of Books: https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/ <https://archive.org/details/no-1-rrb-introduction-v-2> Like the London Review of Books ... but with even more robots! The Robot Review of Books is an AI ‘magazine’ consisting of short computational media essays that are typically structured as book reviews.  Free: No subscriptions, no paywalls.  Non-Surveillance Capitalist: Viewer privacy is respected with no collection, storage or sale of personal data.  Quiet: No hype, no appeals for likes, shares or follows. The RRB has a bibliodiverse editorial policy that takes in works from alternative, independent and open access publishers, not just legacy print presses, in an attempt to avoid repeating the same old pre-programmed ideas and patterns of behaviour. This policy extends from material published by ‘professional’ entities in authoritative formats, such as books and journal articles, through that made available more informally using blogs, websites and newsletters, to experiments with collaborative publishing platforms, so-called internet piracy and beyond. Both established knowledges and those that are perhaps considered a little strange when measured against the dominant criteria of the Euro-Western university are part of this bibliodiversity. Texts authored substantially by AI, for example. -- Gary Hall Professor of Media Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University: https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/ Director of Open Humanities Press:http://www.openhumanitiespress.org Websitehttp://www.garyhall.info Blog:http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/ Latest: Book: Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence:http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/ Blog posts: 'The Commons vs Creative Commons II: On the Undercommons, Latent Commons and Uncommons':http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2025/6/23/the-commons-vs-creative-commons-ii-on-the-undercommons-laten.html 'The Commons vs Creative Commons I: From Ostrom to Postcapitalism - and Back Again':http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2025/6/14/the-commons-vs-creative-commons-i-from-ostrom-to-postcapital.html