@NaomiAKlein sees an alliance of end-times fascists. Will Self sees something more disturbing: a system that can produce the same effects without any master, conspiracy or coherent ideology at all.
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Peggy Noonan sees AI going rogue. Will Self sees something stranger: everyone understands the danger, everyone keeps accelerating — and nobody is really in control.
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Messages coming in from among the 120 people who turned out for @mymartinamis last night, all saying the same thing: this was literary history unfolding in real time. We’ll take that.
@YorkUnderwood, pictured beneath with me outside 21Soho, is a dream collaborator. We’re only just getting started.
Thank you @GavinKeulks and @JimDiedrickATL for lighting the fuse, and believing all the way.
Thank you @wself, @Will___lloyd, @Leon_C_C and Kevin Power for putting on an unforgettable show.
And thank you, as always, to our audience. Write to us!
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The Second Annual My #MartinAmis LIVE podcast show will be available to discover and re-live this autumn 🍂
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Today’s the day—@mymartinamis LIVE at 7 PM @21Soho featuring a Keynote Address by @wself!
Things kick off at 3 PM @BirkbeckUoL for the launch of The Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis published by @CambridgeUP.
Also, it’s Martin Amis’s birthday.
Limited tickets still available ⬇️
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🗣️ TONIGHT!
We look forward to seeing you at @21Soho, 7pm BST, for an arresting keynote speech by @wself, followed by📚 After Amis LIVE 📚 with Kevin Power, @Leon_C_C and @Will___lloyd.
Select 'TIER 2B 21Soho' tickets in the booking 🔗 👇
🎙️GOING LIVE on Tuesday 25th August at @21Soho!
@jackaldane hosts a special episode of My #MartinAmis, inviting three stand-out former guests onto the stage couch 🛋️ to discuss the potential for Amisian style and criticism to endure throughout the 21st Century.
Featuring:
⭐Kevin Power
⭐@Leon_C_C
⭐@Will___Lloyd
BOOK NOW for the full experience, including the launch of the Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis and a keynote by @wself!
🎟️🔗🔽
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Come see Will Self deliver a keynote address tomorrow.
Tickets are available at the link in the comment!
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Here's Jason Arday's death - and the media's role in it - trending on social media, again.
And yet it's *nowhere* in the mainstream media today.
It's "fallen" out of the news cycle in the same way that Russian scientists "fall" out of windows.
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And that's not to even go into the fact that Jason Arday was autistic. That a world-leading expert in autism @sbaroncohen had publicly identified him as a suicide risk. This from @wself - who has two autistic children - is essential reading.
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"No one dog needs to have intended the killing, but the thing in their jaws is dead. All they can do is cast around for somewhere to bury it, before walking off in that slightly embarrassed way that dogs do when they’ve just done a big, bad shit."
Will Self turns the lens on Alan Rusbridger, Lionel Barber and British journalism after Jason Arday’s death: a media machine that investigates everyone except itself–and may no longer know who is wagging whom.
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Well worth persevering and reading this entire post, if you're not cursed with the attention span of a fruit fly
Will Self turns the lens on Alan Rusbridger, Lionel Barber and British journalism after Jason Arday’s death: a media machine that investigates everyone except itself–and may no longer know who is wagging whom.
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Self's observations are sharp, astute & damning. It's a long read that requires focus, which will make it unpalatable for many. However, it's deffo one of the better takes on this grim saga.
Will Self turns the lens on Alan Rusbridger, Lionel Barber and British journalism after Jason Arday’s death: a media machine that investigates everyone except itself–and may no longer know who is wagging whom.
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Bravo. Well said, Will Self.
After the death of Jason Arday, Will Self asks what happens when newspapers, platforms, editors and audiences become components in a machine nobody admits to controlling.
The public interest is not the same thing as the public being interested.
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I think the last paragraph would be called “the topper” in some circles
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“Arday’s autism … was a diagnosed condition that ought to have changed the manner, tempo and proportionality of the reporting. Journalists who chose to write repeatedly about an autistic man had an obligation to learn what they were writing about.”
Will Self turns the lens on Alan Rusbridger, Lionel Barber and British journalism after Jason Arday’s death: a media machine that investigates everyone except itself–and may no longer know who is wagging whom.
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