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AI SHAME

I’ve been feeling some shame lately—shame from the use of AI in my novel.

Feb 23 • Kahlil Corazo

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January 2026

Writing Rajah Versus Conquistador: On Historical Fiction, Self-Publishing, and AI | Ft. Kahlil Corazo

A conversation with Filipino indie novelist Kahlil Corazo ("Explorations.ph")

Published on The Obsœlite • Jan 24

December 2025

A Big Publisher Accepted My Novel—Then Rejected It Because I Used AI

Tradeoffs in using LLMs for writing

Dec 27, 2025 • Kahlil Corazo

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How the Diwata Got Me to Write a Feminist Novel Despite Being Steeped in Filipino Machismo

Neo-animism for creative work

Dec 18, 2025 • Kahlil Corazo

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I figured out what made my experience of writing a novel so strange and magical

Plus: testing the limits of delegating intellectual labor to robots

Dec 3, 2025 • Kahlil Corazo

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November 2025

The Three-City Problem of Meaningless Work

Work and Meaning Through the Eyes of Silicon Valley, Athens, and Jerusalem

Nov 25, 2025 • Kahlil Corazo

A Conversation on the Making of Rajah Versus Conquistador

Gabi Francisco and Kahlil Corazo on Intuition, Serendipity, and the Strange Journey of Making a First Novel

Nov 14, 2025 • Kahlil Corazo

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Quezon, Shogun, and Rajah Humabon

Storytellers grappling with power

Nov 8, 2025 • Kahlil Corazo

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What A Time To be a Cebu Music Fan

Cebu Music from '90s Rock and Reggae to Bisrock and Vispop, plus (inevitably) some language politics.

Nov 4, 2025 • Kahlil Corazo

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October 2025

Things Hidden Since 1521 (Frankfurt Book Fair Talk Practice Run)

Novel-writing as ethnography of precolonial Philippines

Oct 9, 2025 • Kahlil Corazo

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August 2025

René Girard x David Deutsch

A conversation with Micah Redding and Max Schultz

Aug 27, 2025 • Kahlil Corazo, Micah Redding, and Mimesis and Infinity

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Toy Essay: Why I Gave My Novel a Fictional Academic Afterword

When I was around ten, I played with LEGO so intensely that my dad once boiled the bricks in a pot of water when I would not come down for lunch.

Aug 15, 2025 • Kahlil Corazo

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