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wrote a couple books including the novel WRONG WAY joannemcneil.com

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joanne mcneil @jomc.bsky.social · Jun 5

I’ve been reading and thinking about JG Ballard’s work for over twenty years and I appreciated this opportunity to talk with The Point about his singular genius.

The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · Jun 5

On the latest episode of Selected Novels, Jess Swoboda and Zach Fine talk to @jomc.bsky.social about J.G. Ballard’s “Concrete Island,” and how its mix of surreality and social critique influenced both her fiction and criticism:
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Selected Novels | Joanne McNeil on J.G. Ballard - The Point Podcast

On this episode of Selected Novels, Jess and Zach talk to the novelist and cultural critic Joanne McNeil about J.G. Ballard’s Concrete Island.Want more from The Point? Subscribe here at 50% off the no...

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joanne mcneil @jomc.bsky.social · 1d

My latest in @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy: a profile of T.A.P.E. (Teach. Archive. Preserve. Exhibit.) and their incredible efforts in bringing museum-quality archival processes to the public.

filmmakermagazine.com/131808-analo...

Joanne McNeil on Digitizing VHS

Joanne McNeil on how Los Angeles’s Whammy! is helping to preserve people’s VHS archives.

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joanne mcneil @jomc.bsky.social · 1d

Joanne McNeil on Digitizing VHS

Joanne McNeil on how Los Angeles’s Whammy! is helping to preserve people’s VHS archives.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 3d

The "robotaxi" analog is a theme of the novel 'Wrong Way' by @jomc.bsky.social

We also don't know if a person is connected by the magic of cheap telecommunications, like the Waymo teloperators in Manila, California, Arizona, and wherever else Waymo chooses to put them with no regulatory oversight.

kyrla @kyrla.bsky.social · 3d

All I'm saying is that when you write "I am alive" on some paper and put it in a photocopier, judging by the output we don't know that there's *not* a very small man in there. And maybe he deserves rights

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 28d

As seen on FB, reminds me of @jomc.bsky.social's book:

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Image of a man inside a self-check out machine with text "staff needed to work inside our new AI powered self service check out"

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joanne mcneil @jomc.bsky.social · Aug 21

then i learned the money isn't money to them—it's leverage. a publisher who throws down seven figures on a debut novel is going to pull out all the stops —marketing, publicity, distribution etc—and do whatever it takes to sell at least *something* or else their own careers are on the line.

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joanne mcneil @jomc.bsky.social · Aug 21

related to my last tweet: i had always wondered why authors from the wealthiest backgrounds seemed to be the most obsessed and strategic about landing major 250k+ book deals...

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joanne mcneil @jomc.bsky.social · Aug 21

part of the problem is also that people who break in who do not come from privileged backgrounds must cater to the taste and interests of supervisors/editors/producers etc who do

joanne mcneil @jomc.bsky.social · Aug 21

it all comes back to people seeing poverty (in adulthood) as moral failing—a moral failing that couldn't possibly overlap with intellectual and creative skill or ambition

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joanne mcneil @jomc.bsky.social · Aug 21

it's pretty much impossible for someone who makes six figures and up to understand how anyone gets by on half that or less. but that lower class includes most of this country! meanwhile virtually all art, journalism & culture is coming from a sheltered pov that only sometimes gestures at empathy

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Aug 10

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

www.theguardian.com

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · Jul 20

Also, just to say, I learned abt this book this am from an article about a footballer who reads books:

bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

which weirdly reminded me of:

www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/14/a...

and that I recently enjoyed @jomc.bsky.social's Wrong Way:
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

“Wrong Way” Takes the Shine Off the Self-Driving Car

Joanne McNeil’s novel suggests that much of what we think of as technological progress is a new way to obscure human labor.

www.newyorker.com

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