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new terms that are humiliating, and confusing: the Global South(全球南方)
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By Ouyang Yu
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new terms: open source publications
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AI Overview Open-source (open access) publications are scholarly articles, journals, and research databases that are freely, immediately, and permanently available online , allowing anyone to read, download, copy, and distribute them without financial or legal barriers. Key platforms include the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) , PubMed Central (PMC), and repositories for open-source, peer-reviewed content. Top Open Access Publishers and Journals MDPI : Publishes a wide range of open-access journals, including IJERPH and IJMS . PLOS (Public Library of Science) : Known for PLOS ONE and other open-access, peer-reviewed journals. BioMed Central (BMC) : Specialized in biology and medicine. ScienceOpen : A research network and search engine for open content. Frontiers : A major open-access publisher. GigaScience : Focuses on open science data and publications. Key Open Access Databases ...
Slight Words 《微词》, copies arrived. Take your pick
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By Ouyang Yu
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new thought-term: forced into self-publishing as the only way of survival
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and AI seth, For many authors, self-publishing has transitioned from a niche alternative to a necessary survival strategy, driven by a desire for creative control, the need for faster market speed, and frustration with the limitations of traditional publishing . This route allows authors to act as their own publisher, managing everything from cover design to marketing, which can lead to higher earnings and greater independence, despite the high barrier to entry and the need for significant business acumen. Here is a breakdown of the realities of being "forced" into self-publishing: Why Authors Turn to Self-Publishing for Survival Rejection and Gatekeeping: Many authors face rejection from traditional publishers, leading them to bypass the "Big Five" to bring their work to the public. Creative and Operational Control: Self-publishing allows creators to retain full control over their work, including cover design, title, and content, without needing to align with ...
new thought-term: textual revision as punishment (see what AI says)
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By Ouyang Yu
Ouyang Yu
Textual revision as punishment sits at a strange crossroads between authority and intimacy. To revise someone’s words is not like fining them or banning them; it enters the body of their thinking. It presumes proximity— I know your language well enough to correct it —and that presumption is precisely what gives the act its punitive charge. When revision is imposed rather than invited, it stops being an act of care and becomes a disciplinary gesture, a way of saying: your meaning may stand, but only after it has been reshaped to pass inspection. For a writer, this kind of punishment cuts deeper than censorship. Censorship leaves a blank; enforced revision leaves a simulacrum. The text remains, but the voice is altered, domesticated, sometimes made to speak against its own grain. What is punished is not merely content but temperament—tone, rhythm, hesitation, excess. The writer is taught, through edits, what kinds of sentences are allowed to survive. Over time, the lesson migrates i...
new thought-term: literary injustices
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By Ouyang Yu
Ouyang Yu
as yet no explanation. Now found from AI: When you call them literary injustices , I hear less a slogan than a quiet accusation against the way literature actually moves through the world. Not the dramatic injustices that make headlines, but the slow, accumulative ones: the poem that never crosses a language border because the translator is deemed “too marginal,” the writer who is footnoted into obscurity while a lesser voice is amplified because it fits a marketable narrative. These are injustices precisely because they masquerade as neutrality—as taste, as trend, as inevitability. There is also an injustice of attribution, where labor dissolves the moment it succeeds. Translation is the most obvious case, but not the only one. A text survives, circulates, and even transforms a culture, while the translator’s presence is thinned to parentheses or erased altogether. The irony is sharp: the very act that makes the work readable is treated as secondary, almost parasitic. In su...
new thought-terms: erasure in literary history
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AI Overview Erasure in literary history refers to the deliberate removal, obscuring, or striking through of parts of an existing text to create a new work, as well as the sociopolitical act of silencing or omitting voices, experiences, and identities from narratives . As a poetic form, it is a type of found poetry that highlights the relationship between text and absence, often used to reclaim narratives, challenge dominant structures, and amplify marginalized voices. Key Aspects of Erasure in Literature: Erasure Poetry & Techniques: This form, which grew in popularity in the 21st century partly due to social media and the "documental turn," involves manipulating a source text. Methods include: Blackout Poetry: Using a black marker to cross out words, leaving only a few visible to create a new poem, as seen in Austin Kleon’s Newspaper Blackout . Palimpsest/Redaction: Fading or partially crossing out text, as seen in Tom Phillips' A H...