📖 Clichés

• 🖨️Reclaiming the Cliché

  What is it that makes the output of large language models and other varieties of generative AI so interesting, and then so boring? For me the most useful operative metaphor for AI’s promise and problems is the cliche.

• 🕯️Good art in dark times

  A thought-provoking exploration of the role of fiction in reflecting and transcending the darkness of our times.

• 🎬Two clichés make us laugh. A hundred clichés move us

  Eco explores how _Casablanca_ transcends clichés to unveil narrative power and emotional depth.

• 🏑And the universal language is ... field hockey

  Having watched 'Chak De! India' recently, I found it an entertaining take on the sports underdog narrative, enriched by its cultural nuances.

• 🌍Mongolian Bling

  A reflection on the irony of cultural exchange in a project celebrating nomadic hip hop.

• 🏛️That’s one way to fight the war on cliche

  Liz Glynn and her team created and then dismantled a model of Rome in a day at New York's New Museum.

• ✨The Rosa Parks of blogs

  I love this sort of list-making

• 🌏Spanish Catholic schoolgirl crushes

  In a reflection on the evolution of travel writing, Rolf Potts discusses the complexities of globalization and the shifting narratives in contemporary travel stories.