I have the same problem. I really want to get back to it, though.

AI-generated image "The Song of the Unbounded Vision," depicting Urizen and Los in a cartoony style.

I used Google AI Studio to "create an app that takes descriptions and visuals from Blake's illuminated works to simulate what Blake's mystical experiences might have been like." It generated images it reasonsed were like Blake's. The result seems very bounded, alas.

Heya sound studies/media archaeology folk! I'm looking for electronic music that emphasizes media as temporal or time machines. if there's someone who specifically references H.G. Wells or time travel in general, that's a bonus. any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks!

i mean, jetzeit...

I've been in a Benjaminian headspace too. I watched Transatlanic too, which is a servicable accound of - among other things - Jewish refugees being evacuated out of Paris.

I am now one of those faculty members who "replies all." It was only a matter of time, I suppose.

“The formatting and databasing of images, the re-formatting of image data as recognizable patterns through deep learning models and the re-ssemblage of such patterns as predictive mechanisms for the very near future are all operations of platform seeing.”
—MacKenzie and Munster, "Platform Seeing

Go St. Augustine!

Has anyone taught Weatherby and Justie's "Indexical AI?" I assigned it for tomorrow but I might have bitten off more than I can chew! ha!

big congrats Miriam!

Have you found a replacement for Google Drive? I'm using that this semester.

"a machine-learning algorithm may allow us to turn an ordinary paragraph into one that resembles the style of a a Klee or a Van Gough, but it is nothing creative in the sense that what it does is a geometrical mapping of pixels." - Yuk Hui

"Technics is not a mere application of scientific knowledge; rather, it is thanks to technics and technical activities that science is made to appear on the occasion of technical breakdown."
—Yuk Hui, Recursivity and Contingency

...i need to have finished the chapter draft yesterday, so i could have finished...

i was obsessed last year with her book on Émilie du Châtelet and Mary Somerville. It also helped me grok Leibniz!

March 18, 2026 Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

Cybernetics for the Twenty-First Century: An Interview with Philosopher Yuk Hui - Journal #102 …

I'm in the middle of Recursivity and Contingency, which this interview helps to illuminate.

www.e-flux.com/journal/102/...

i wonder how much is memory, and what kind, and if that's distinguished from the thought involved in writing.

Have you listened yet? I wonder how strange it is to hear someone else reading your words.

"It is worth mentioning that Hegel's philosophy of nature is considered to be a very peculiar work, and his theory of heat and sound has been considered to be 'gibberish.'"
—Yuk Hui, Recursivity and Contingency

Yup, agree. It may also seem like drudgery b/c of the project they're working on. there's a lot of writing that's also drudgery.

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

“in the creative disciplines, L.L.M.s take away the most soulful human parts of the work and leave the drudgery to you,” Dash says. “And in coding, L.L.M.s take away the drudgery and leave the human, soulful parts to you.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/m...

the temptation to forget history is highest when we're under threat... :/

The University Within the Limits of Automated Knowledge - Journal #161 Yuk Hui on how the university should, and should not, respond to the emergence of AI.

great new piece by Yuk Hui up at e-flux:
www.e-flux.com/journal/161/...

image with words: "Professor Lecture Series: A Social Enactive Theory of Perception: Perceptual Practices, Direct Perception, and a World of Aspects. Jupiter's Eye Book Cafe, Thursdy March 19 6pm."

Next up on the "Professor Lecture Series" I'm hosting with Jupiter's Eye Book Cafe in Spokane is Gonzaga prof Alejandro Arango discussing his Social Enactive Theory of Perception. Please join us!

well, we read that one and Extralibrary Loan. it worked well.

They liked Star well enough. We're onto Alain Liu's work on diversity stack (which may or may not have been a good idea to assign) and @shannonmattern.bsky.social's "Library as Infrastructure"

Teaching Infrastructure in the Grad DH Class today via Susan Leigh Star and the Lab Infrastructure ch of @loriemerson.net, Parikka, and Wershler's Lab Book. One student: "Sorry Roger, but infrastructure is a bit of a slog." Me: "Yup, that's the point."

Looks essential.

I feel like @samplereality.bsky.social needs to have a book or something titled "Cool Stuff I've Done That You Can Do Too." He's often the first person I go to when I'm looking for syllabi, exercises, code, etc.