Greetings. In this installment of Thus Spake Daniel Kalder I feature psychedelic Turkish music, phantoms of Mesopotamia, a philosophical discourse on Scotland's complicated relationship with the monarchy and much more.
As a follow-up to last week’s epic voyage into the heart of ChatGPT, I thought I would share a few of the surrealist masterpieces that did not make the…
Or: How Daniel Kalder used ChatGPT to automate the surrealist practice of automatic writing. Thrill to this tale of an AI fiercely protective of Russian…
From The Flaneur of Utter Destruction. America has many landmarks and many Walmarts — behold the true story of how I did not write an epic travelogue…
The City is of Night; perchance of Death, But certainly of Night….
TSDK Podcast No. 3. A conversation with Max Lawton, translator of Russia's greatest living author, Vladimir SorokinListen now (56 min) | Earlier this year two books by the great Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin were published in English: Their Four Hearts — a wild…
Enter the bioscope from hell — from Daughters of Darkness to Carnival of Souls.
From "Beach Bodies", a work in progress. What is the connection between Roland Barthes, Frank O'Hara and Benny Hill? In this installment of Thus Spake…
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