A.V., A.I., and Other Ghosts in the Machine, Part One

A.V., A.I., and Other Ghosts in the Machine, Part One

I’m a bookseller and an ex-academic; a human-citizen and a man-person; a Wheeler County-residing person from Spray, Oregon; a S.N.A.G. and an ethnographer by practice—verily, a cultural anthropologist to the core of what Karl Marx called my species-being. I despise most of the use and all of the abuse of terms such as “political correctness,” “cancel culture,” “wokeness,” “gender,” “the War on Chr...