"Unfortunately, the types of people for whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—and whose career trajectories might be most dramatically shifted given freedom from their usual constraints—are infrequently their beneficiaries."
Talking about tokens in "How to do things with words (and images), redux" at Trondheim tom. at 1315, in conjunction with the workshop of the AIsthesis network for research on the aesthetics of AI imagery hosted by the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.
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If you are in Zurich today, come hear me talk today—on the scientific work of media translation—at the Humanities Colloquium in ETH at 1615. ets.ethz.ch/ets-news-en/...
Here’s the Top 17 Bankruptcy Filings That Will Get You Through Friday
FYI University of Basel is hiring a professor in English Linguistics (open rank). Application deadline: 16 March, 2026. Please feel free to pass it on!
jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
Extraordinary new public humanities resource that curates in near real-time over 50,0000 items from sources/channels of humanities-related scholars who create pubic-facing essays, podcasts, videos, blogs, etc.: publicscholarship.org
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
added some new privacy/opsec guides for organizers here (as always tell me what I am missing) are.na/rebecca-will...
Just ordered one (1) takeout dinner in the Helevetic Confederation better known as Switzerland:
SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.
It's 2028. The world is burning.
After several years of her Parisian stint as a Midwesterner who refused to integrate, she finally starts learning French because she needs to read Frantz Fanon in its original form. Meanwhile, her American boyfriend has been reading Mike Davis.
Proposal: Next season, Emily follows this American consular officer to his next posting in the Middle East and gets caught up in the war only to realize that the bourgeois life she has been living always stood atop a nightmare of unequal exchange, war, and violent extraction from Global South.
We've begun. You can still hop on!
The legal arguments and architecture for what's happening in Iran now, and were deployed in relation to Gaza, really did not come out of nowhere.
The pre-emption and targetted assassination arguments might appear spectacular, but they were the workaday archiecture of the war on terror.
This is happening today! Register @ tinyurl.com/DigitalTheory
It's interesting seeing all the take-havers having viral takes about AI that are essentially verbatim recitations of deeply researched analyses offered by AI scholars ten years ago, when they those caveats were ignored by press + the general public because the threat wasn't yet so intensely palpable
The Media, Science and Technology (MST) SIG is in Spotlight, thanks to an insightful piece by Gary Kafer and Patrick Brian Smith, explaining the relationship between the three constitutive terms, each of which as we all know can mean a lot of different things: quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/i...
the biggest brains possible
New chapter on ocean digitalization and governance out in volume edited by Bernhard Siegert, alongside great essays by Jussi Parikka, Geoffrey Bowker, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social and others
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Thanks for the kind words. Glad it was useful! :)
Something that had to be sacrificed at the altar of piece length. I was already severely over limit.
Hadn't considered | in the midst of all this, but I think you are right, that's a sharp observation.
Just Published: 'The Infrastructural Unconscious: Do Computers Dream of Carbo-Silico Pipelines?' in "Reckoning with Everything: The Becoming-Environmental of Computing" edited by Bernhard Siegert and Benedikt Merkle, and published by @mesonpress.bsky.social .