Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.
Happy to share my new article, just published with Multimodality & Society: "Representing mental images and immaterial processes in VR. A new materialist reading of Manic VR and Ayahuasca – Kosmik Journey." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
This essay is a banger. houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/you-dont-n... (obligatory "wish it weren't on substack")
Our exhibition features works by Hunter Brown and AxLab members Anup Sathya, David Yuan, Alan Pham, Yuxiao Li, and Miyu Fukuoka. See you next week in Linz! #ars.electronica.art
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So excited to present the amazing work of UChicago's students together with Ken Nakagaki at Ars Electronica's Campus Exhibition!
Tomorrow, August 7th is the deadline for comments to he EPA.
Takes a minute.
Please REPOST REPOST REPOST. Thank you!
🌎 #EPA
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I cannot imagine how the kinds of ‘knot-working’ - the bringing together of knowledges to create fresh insights - that arts & hums are so brilliant at, can be ‘built’ into what are essentially homogenisation machines. And what would be the point when 👋🏻? So, no.
"there are people with the cute label ‘brain fog’, which can actually now be better understood as a form of brain damage" - can anyone point me in the direction of studies specifically about this? 🥹
Above quote about long covid is from ⤵️ review of Suzanne O’Sullivan’s book ‘The Age of Diagnosis’:
Sounds like a wonderful project! Congratulations!
Next week, I'm starting a new project called "Algorithmic Kitchen" with support from the @wellcometrust.bsky.social a project that weaves disability design with health tech. I'm ready to grow new networks with direct engagement with a touring kitchen!
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An dieser Stelle sei zum "Enigma" Peter Thiel dieser Text von @lioneltrolling.bsky.social empfohlen: "There Is No Enigma — He's a Fascist"
The sheer quantity of bullshit here. The solution to instructor exhaustion and overwork is not outsourcing grading (if that’s not direct mentoring of students, I don’t know what is) but hiring more faculty and reducing class sizes. Give the money to teachers, not Sam Altman
I’m looking forward to all the avenues of exploration, experiencing, and thinking new thoughts opened up by these three events.
3. I received an IIRP grant to organize a workshop on “Exploring New Avenues of Virtual Reality as a Narrative Medium” in Paris. centerinparis.uchicago.edu
2. The research project “Impressions of the Past: Re-imagining multimodal knowledge production,” supported by the Neubauer Collegium, finally kicked off: neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/research/imp...
Amid all the bad news that has become all too familiar, I was delighted about three recent developments: 1. With quite a bit of delay, my paper “Experience of Indeterminacy in Virtual Reality” was published in Hyperrhiz: New Media Culture: hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz28/...
Thanks for sharing!
Heyo! New piece by me, @ashleyshoo.bsky.social and @wolvendamien.bsky.social on our syllabi and teaching philosophies around our class Technology and Disability is out!
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A lot of people in the US feel that as long as they can go on minding their daily lives of work and consumption that fascism has not arrived, but COVID, global warming, and Gaza has demonstrated that is precisely this desire to go on as if nothing is happening that drives contemporary fascism.
Yes! Couldn't agree more.
In Chicago nennen wir das Ghost train. Very common...
Über Jahre habe ich die Zeit gelesen, auch als ich aus D weggezogen bin. Dann war ich durch die Geschehnisse in den USA abgelenkt und habe ein paar Monate ausgesetzt. Als ich vor ein paar Wochen seit längerem nochmal die Zeit online aufgerufen habe, war ich geschockt. WTF
🚨 URGENT: CHICAGO ORGANIZER DETAINED BY ICE, SHOW UP NOW!!! 🚨
A longtime organizer in our Chicago community has just been detained by ICE. And she’s not alone, demonstrators outside have seen 3 people shackled in chains.
📍 GET TO 1930 Beach St., Broadview, IL RIGHT NOW.
Hull House!
"considered art the highest expression of human labor +believed that the way to foster a more flourishing society was to empower all people to share in the work..reminder that Chicago+the Midwest have long been places of leftist experimentation"
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