with contributions from, among others: @adamwickberg.bsky.social @vagt.bsky.social @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @moritzhiller.bsky.social @sebergerj.bsky.social

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 meson.press/books/reckon...

Coming up in 2 weeks at the University of Chicago

My new text on parallel processing and the financial nature of AI is online open source (along with a bunch of other killer texts) in the new volume Reckoning with Everything edited by Bernhard Siegert and Benedikt Merkle for Meson Press meson.press/books/reckon...

a student has alerted me to the fact that Andreesen Horowitz is citing Fredric Jameson in its newsletters a16z.com/prediction-t...

SUNY Binghamton just substantially increased stipends for grad students and we have several fully-funded PhD spots in art history. Pretty sure our endowment is smaller more our placement record is great www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

TT job alert. My department is hiring an assistant professor in architectural history and urban studies in any geographical area, post-500 CE binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

I wrote about the 13th Berlin Biennale for @eflux.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/criticism/67...

@jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social‬, your book flipped my thinking about machines and humans in so many ways. An important history to prepare us for the coming AI disruptions.

Delighted to read the excellent review by @wluers.bsky.social of my book Endless Intervals in @electronicbook electronicbookreview.com/essay/a-revi... @uminnpress.bsky.social

I can’t wait to be in one of my favourite places, Rome, to speak at this conference at the Bibliotheca Hertziana. I will present an argument for a transcendental philosophy of computation. My abstract is the pic below, and full programme is here: www.biblhertz.it/events/41601... @bhmpi.bsky.social

My grad seminar for next semester is set to be banger

spacex, twitter, and tesla stock share one important feature: they're crashing

Found the vp’s tailor

We are saddened to learn that artist Rutherford Chang has passed away. In 2004, Rutherford proposed a spectacular poster for our “Average” issue: The New York Times’s front page with every section’s words cut out (by hand!) and reordered alphabetically. www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/15/ch...

Sometimes I wonder how a robot would feel encountering this when simply trying to catch up on lit in the humanities

Can I say that I don't think now is a great time for a Caspar David Friedrich show called "The Soul of Nature" at the Met? At least Germany had the good sense to call it "Infinite Landscapes" www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

AI agent that humiliates you by responding in English when you speak to it in French

Sad to hear that Andy Rabinbach died. He was a defining intellectual force on campus and like 10 fields while I was at Princeton, his syllabus on Begriffsgeschichte is still the best, he was always open to meet, and Human Motor elevated being tired to its rightful position of utmost significance!

I've seen some people posting clips of Milton Friedman on free trade as if it were a sage antidote to batshit tariffs and I'd just like to say NO

Maybe a scientific dark web is in order

John Crowley's short @harpers.bsky.social piece about how working as a temp to digitize the nyc phone book entirely reconfigured the mental and social cartography of the city is still the best into to media theory in existence harpers.org/archive/2014...

tiktok going down just before my media theory course begins is so convenient for my continuing to ignore it

New on @HSciMedTech: Check out Jeff S. Nagy (@UMich)’s review of Jeffrey West Kirkwood (@binghamtonu @HarpurCollege)’s book _Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900_, pub 2022 @UMinnPress #HSTM Review available...

Sometimes you score a mint condition first edition Coetzee for ten bucks from the discard bin at the bookstore

Now that Bitcoin has broken 100k it's worth remembering that the monstrous global resource destroying system on which it's based is not an outlier of the digital economy but an expression of its core logic—one that thrives on maximizing inefficiency www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

I'm the farthest thing from a free market evangelist but if I were (like those criticizing the "purity politics" of the move) I might be inclined to think that a massive user movement away from a particular platform could only be rationalized as a failure that platform's leadership

They should have named it "alibi" www.techradar.com/computing/ar...

I need suggestions for this.

at Binghamton the engineering dept doesn’t appreciate and the humanists covet

The only DOGE I recognize

Cross-posting (self)promotional content for this book event. Should be fun if you find yourself in NYC