Those tremors certainly perked me up. Hello planet earth. Don't worry, we haven't forgotten you're there.
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Eli K.P. William
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Sci-fi novelist | Translator of Japanese literature | Bilingual game writing consultant | Essayist | Resident of Japan | SFWA and SFWJ member | Father of a curious young soul | Believer in our potential to change
I will post every day starting today (a promise to myself)
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my talk on translating The Traveling Tree is today! Come sign up if you haven't already.
come join my online talk for the Japan Association of Translators this Saturday (June 13th) 3:00-4:30 pm JST. I'll be discussing the process of translating The Traveling Tree, a memoir by photographer Michio Hoshino about his life in Alaska.
We are not "content consumers" but seekers of meaning, guided by the sparks and glimmers of art along the dark road of life.
denying the value of the human endeavour behind a work of art isn't just a matter of preference. It is an implicit denial of our capacity to endow existence with meaning through our actions. It is a species of nihilism whose inevitable destination is despair.
Even if slop and artistic creation are one day indistinguishable, the end product is only part of their value. Two identical works are not of equal value if one was hard-won through years of blood, sweat, and tears, and the other spat out by a quick flicker of transistors in some soulless data center.
Generative AI may ultimately be good for the arts. In posing the greatest challenge to them yet, it reminds us of the immeasurable value of human creativity.
To evaluate a work of art, whether song, novel, film, or anything else, one must be discriminating. In our efforts to avoid being discriminatory, we often lose sight of this inescapable truth.
