







When Humans Are No Longer Born Human by Zhu Yixuan
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
The Animator and the Glazer by Ju Chu, translated by S. Qiouyi Lu


Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
To Walk This Distant Shore with You by A.D. Sui

About - personal canon
finding meaning in life through literature, art, design, and culture ✦✧ through weekly posts and enthusiastic conversations. Click to read personal canon, by Celine Nguyen, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Anthropeum
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.



Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector
For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, archive perusers, and history buffs who grew to love their areas of study because of the specific objects that constitute the field: the…

Learning to Love Humans
A trip to Athens, five weeks before “the most human gathering for the more-than-human world”

The End of Textuality - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Authenticity in the age of GenAI
Erin Kissane, Writer/Researcher - XOXO Festival (2024)
Inside China's Underground Claude Market
Inside China's Underground Claude Market

Home
This is where I post my articles and interviews. My most recent writing is on the science and ethics of genetic enhancement.

AI Fiction in the Wild
What kind of fiction will people read in the future—a future that includes generative AI models that can read and write themselves? Will people read fiction that is authored, or co-authored, by AI? Will they read and write their own AI-generated fiction, in a closed loop, cutting out other human beings entirely?