Welcome to issue four of The Attention Span Newsletter by me, Canan “Ja’anan” Marasligil. I’m a writer, a literary translator, an artist and a curator of cultural programmes based in Amsterdam.Every other week, I take the time to reflect and offer a glimpse of how I see the world through the lens of culture, art, translation, poetry and literature. Each issue has a short essay, a nerdy look at translation, a page from one of my notebooks, a list of things to read, watch or listen to, …This podcast is the audio version of the newsletter. You can access all issues of the newsletter on The Attention Span website: www.theattentionspan.com/subscribe You can support my work on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theattentionspanEPISODE 4 Show notesWork Show Grow: https://www.workshowgrow.com Vilém Flusser’s Gestures (Translated by Nancy Ann Roth): https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/gestures My Gestures on Instagram: @my.gesturesReading/Watching/Listening to• Black and White: Three Poems by Nisrine Mbarki (translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison) published on Words Without Borders in their May 2023 edition. If you can read Dutch, I would also urge you to dive into Mbarki’s poetry collection oeverloos. I just finished writing an essay about the work of this tremendous poet I have the immense chance to call a friend. https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2023-04/black-and-white-three-poems-nisrine-mbarki-michele-hutchison/ • To Tell a Story (1983). https://youtu.be/MoHCR8nshe8 Whenever I feel a bit lost and am yearning for listening to people taking the time to respond to one another and reflect on the world in a deep conversation, I watch this conversation on storytelling between John Berger and Susan Sontag. • AI Meets World, Part One. On the WHY IT MATTERS podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/why-it-matters/id1482132871?i=1000616204051https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/why-it-matters/id1482132871?i=1000616204051 I have been interested in AI (especially in relation to automated translation) for years now, but I have not dived into what it means and how it works, enough to form any kind of reflection. So, I am starting to gather information, knowledge and experiences so I can participate in this important conversation, someday in the near future hopefully, with tools and not just based on fear of the unknown. This episode is a good start.

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