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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 5h

Submissions guidelines and acceptance criteria range wildly between literary magazines, as some of the major newsletters that cover our industry have written about at length. In this transparency report, we talk about the role that the process notes that we require take on as we make decisions!

Remediate Transparency
- - - - Process Notes - - - -
In terms of our internal deliberation on the pieces we accept and reject, very often the process notes that a contributor includes have, if not a making-or-breaking importance, a tie-breaking quality to them.
Your process note is the place for you to show that you've thought through the aesthetic, critical, conceptual, and procedural weight of the AI- or computer-assisted work you submit.
Sometimes, a piece is very interesting to us, but it seems, based on the process note, that that is almost an accidental quality. In this case, re mediate will often query you to get more information before making a decision.
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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 2d

We haven't made some transparency posts in a while, and since we're at our one-year, we think it's a good time to let our audience know the vision behind some of the things we do at remediate. There'll be a few of these this month, and our first one is about what and why we promote via social media!

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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 5d

This month, as our submission period comes to a close, we'll be posting a bunch of prompts we hope might inspire you as you consider sending us something along the lines of our [MachineWitness] call! Here's our first one: MachineWitness, MachineVision, MachineReVision?

Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 5d

Literally so stoked for this every time!!!

The AI Literary Review @ailiteraryreview.bsky.social · 7d

Issue 06 is out today - and it's a doozy!

We've got 10 original, unique, human-authored works, each utilising GenAI tools in different ways to create something cool

Check it out for free at ailiteraryreview.co.uk/issue06 ✨🤖📝

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The AI Literary Review @ailiteraryreview.bsky.social · 7d

Issue 06 is out today - and it's a doozy!

We've got 10 original, unique, human-authored works, each utilising GenAI tools in different ways to create something cool

Check it out for free at ailiteraryreview.co.uk/issue06 ✨🤖📝

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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 7d

#TikTok! (oops, wrong one hehe) — time is running short! A month from today is your last chance to submit to the #MachineWitness #CallForSubmissions. Take a look at what we're inviting at remediatelitmag.xyz/submit!

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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

#FF It’s HR Professionals Day. To celebrate, give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community that begin with “H” and “R”!
@read.theforgottenfiction.com
@headpress.com
@hedgehogpress.co.uk
@remediatelitmag.bsky.social
@hempressbooks.bsky.social
Cont ⬇️

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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks for making it through September! We're so excited about the submissions we received and are looking forward to one more month before we send final acceptances/rejections and ready Issue•4! Did you learn anything this month? Write us at remediateeditor[at]gmail[dot]com <3

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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 12d

*Content Warning!* Grammatron is kinda hardcore lol — read it with its companion text Hypertextual Consciousness at grammatron.com

GRAMMATRON

grammatron.com

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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 12d

Our existential anxieties about the effects of AI on the human condition have been foreshadowed by previous similar aesthetic inquiries into simulated consciousness. Grammatron, by Mark Amerika, is a quarter-century-old work of net art that iterates the same themes.

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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 14d

Artists and humanities researchers aren't the only ones concerned about the effects of Generative AI and other automations. Organizations like Witness.Org are concerned with the authenticity of online content and the intersections of technology with human rights and climate justice.

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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 16d

Our reading list is always rolling and open to suggestions, but re•mediate's also acquainted with a few other really awesome lists you should check out! Katy Ilonka Gero, co-editor of Ensemble Park, and @oral-pub.bsky.social also have great reading recommendations we think you should check out!

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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 18d

These books from our #ReadingList , we think, both provide a strong groundings for our #MachineWitness #CallForSubmissions. One is historical, the other extremely contemporary, but both are near to the heart of our call for work that is attentive to relationship between Technology + Sight/Capture.

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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 19d

Our second newsletter is out today! All our goings-on are there: the new Letter to Re•mediate from @clairejamescarroll, our #MachineWitness #ReadingList, and our #BestOfTheNet nominees from Issues•0-2! <3 Getting excited after spending time with the submissions that have come in already!

Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 19d

Our September Newsletter is out today! Check out our Best of the Net Nominations, our first Letter to Re•mediate, and our [MachineWitness] reading list! We welcome comments, reply-letters, and other reading suggestions : )

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[We]'ve Got Mail!

New Letters, Best of the Net Noms, and our Fall Reading List,

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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 20d

We're especially excited to share, from our #ReadingList, some critical formulations for computer-assisted writing. From @criticalai-journal.bsky.social and Dispersed Holdings @salrandolph.bsky.social, Kyle Booten's concept of Word Gyms is of definite interest to us here at re•mediate!

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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 24d

Another element of the #MachineWitness #ReadingList that might help some of our readers who are interested in doing either Computer-Critical or Computer-Assisted work: the #Cyberfeminism Index! This collection stretches back to Donna Haraway's 1985 Cyborg Manifesto + gathers more than 800 resources!

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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 26d

Next up on our #ReadingList— two #poetry chapbooks made with the assistance of #ChatGPT by @danpower.bsky.social! "Memory Foam" + "Snail Generations" take different approaches to the interaction between #AIGenerated text + the poet; that comparison between text + topic we think is so generative ;)

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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 28d

Next up on the #ReadingList, we super recommend visiting @eliterature.bsky.social collections and see how projects work with different hardware, code, images, and words to make computer-assisted literatures. If you're less familiar with the history of this work, the ELCs are the best place to start!

Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 29d

Included in the Letter is a code poem that generates more Letters— specifically to call for action against genocide in Gaza. Since this work strikes a chord with the call for [MachineWitness], it will be included in the next issue as well as a standalone work! Read it @ remediatelitmag.xyz/letters!

re•mediate lit mag — letters to re•mediate

A Home for CPU-Assisted Writing

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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · 29d

Less than a month ago, we announced a call for "Letters to Re•mediate" — and we're really stoked to announce a letter from Claire James Carroll is now live!

A graphic called "Letters to remediate" that shows a postage stamp with the piece title "This Poem Opposes Genocide" and a quotation from the letter, as well as a screenshot of the code poem included in the work.

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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · Sep 6

On our #ReadingList, we keep a list of pieces and interviews that we wish we had published. @PoetryDaily.bsky.social's interview with @reallynora.bsky.social about their book Groceries, and the 🔲 glyph, is a great conceptual spark for work that mightn't exist how it does without a digital interface!

Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · Sep 4

Now that the semester is in full swing, we'll be sharing selections from our #ReadingList all of this September! Stick around for a short survey of recent publications we wish we'd had a hand in, some #throwback readings that frame our moment, and a bunch of texts geared towards our #SubmissionCall

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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · Aug 29

Now that our "Letters to the Editor" section is open to submissions (via email, but we'll also accept them in our submissions queue), we hope you'll reach out! Our LETTERS section is especially interested in reflections on past issues of re•mediate—in responses, criticisms, riffs, and feedback.

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Re•mediate Lit Mag @remediatelitmag.bsky.social · Aug 27

Re•mediate is a literary magazine with very little in the way of resources. Though for now we are unable to pay contributors, we’ll be pursuing the kinds of grants/resources that make rates possible. Submission to re•mediate’s general reading period will always be free!