Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
@bernarddionysius.bsky.social
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teacher, writer, curator media, cybernetics, HCI, environmental humanities, digital images, AI
My kidâs school ensuring none of its students become humanities PhDs
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A student asked GPT if its summaries of a class text were distorted. It replied âIf distortion is inevitable in communication, then maybe my âblurrinessâ isnât just a flawâitâs a mirror held up to how humans process and reshape information every day.â
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Now in Portuguese translation, and open access, an essay Francesco Casetti and I wrote on "Screens":
periodicoscientificos.ufmt.br/territoriose...
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Tela | Revista TerritĂłrios e Fronteiras
https://periodicoscientificos.ufmt.br/territoriosefronteiras/index.php/v03n02/article/view/1449
3 months ago
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"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes." --Theodor Adorno
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why do I have to acknowledge if I used an LLM in preparing the text but my colleagues don't have to note when their spouses and research assistants helped with research and writing ?
4 months ago
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Ted Underwood
5 months ago
The concept of "slop" is going to fit neatly into the space that "mass culture" occupied in 20c theory. It expresses a fear that culture has become liquid, abject, homogenous, replicating and spreading itself like a slime mold.
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When I try to make sense of the kind of language produced by large language models (LLMs) I think of Saussure's passing remark that language is a "a machine that will always run no matter the damages that may be inflicted upon it."
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Chaucer Doth Tweet
5 months ago
HOTTE LOCAL SINGLES NEAR UNTO THEE ARE YNTERESTID YN VERNACULAR REWRITINGES OF THE TROY LEGEND, HENDECASYLLABIQUE VERSE, LIGHT FALCONRY, HERBALISM. JOYNE *COURTR* THE BEST APP FOR COURTLYE LOVE.
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Ted Underwood
6 months ago
Love this review, and glad to see it also bring in
@bernarddionysius.bsky.social
, whose _Code_ deeply shaped my thinking about the history of cultural theory. If you put these two books together, I think it makes a very coherent story about where theory came from and why we need it right now.
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robin manley
10 months ago
My review of the excellent Code: From Information Theory to French Theory by
@bernarddionysius.bsky.social
is out now in the new and very exciting
@histsocialscience.bsky.social
! Available open access here~~
muse.jhu.edu/article/952248
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Project MUSE - Code: From Information Theory to French Theory by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/952248
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Kevin A. Bryan
11 months ago
The new OpenAI model announced today is quite wild. It is essentially Google's Deep Research idea with multistep reasoning, web search, *and* the o3 model underneath (as far as I know). It sometimes takes a half hour to answer. Let me show you an example. 1/x
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is this genre theory? I think it might be!
add a skeleton here at some point
11 months ago
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Bronislaw Szerszynski
11 months ago
A while back I did a performance of my 'Drift as a planetary phenomenon' for the excellent Panel on Planetary Thinking at the University of GieĂen (
www.uni-giessen.de/en/faculties...
). They've now released the video (40 mins).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YWo...
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Planetary Lecture Series #3 "Drift as a Planetary Phenomenon"
YouTube video by Panel on Planetary Thinking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YWoG7QSuKc
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I was filling out a social security form in Swedish. I had to check one of two boxes. Google Translate renders the two options as (a) I am a decent (b) I am a cretin
about 1 year ago
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I haven't gotten much out of this website. Is there something I should do to make it more interesting?
about 1 year ago
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I like this line by Bob Dylan from the Rolling Thunder Revue movie: âWhen somebodyâs wearing a mask, heâs gonna tell you the truth. When heâs not wearing a mask, itâs highly unlikely.â
about 1 year ago
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âIâ is a linguistic convention to facilitate communication and should not be interpreted as a sign of self-awareness or consciousness. --ChatGPT
about 1 year ago
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A structuralist analysis of the bong, as differential ordering of the binaries fire and water, earth and airâand the functional role of the universal taboo on drinking the bong water.
about 1 year ago
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wrote and recorded some new lectures on LLMs
about 1 year ago
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The best concert I've seen in the last 20 or so years was KRS-One in Berlin, around 2014 or 2015, in a small club in Berlin. His charisma, elegance, poise, power, rhythm, timing, musical sensibility was off the charts -- like James Brown at the Apollo. If you get a chance, go see him.
about 1 year ago
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Foucault v Twitter: those who have found a new tone, a new way of looking, a new way of doing, will never feel the need to lament that the world is error, that history is filled with people of no consequence, and that it is time for others to keep quiet so the sound of their disapproval may be heard
about 1 year ago
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one of the best books in media studies this year! a tour de force in blue humanities
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about 1 year ago
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Louise Amoore
about 1 year ago
I canât find Beatrice Fazi on here yet, but until she gets here, her pretty dazzling new paper on synthesis in
#generativeAI
www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
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The Computational Search for Unity: Synthesis in Generative AI - published on November 9, 2024
The outputs of generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) are often called âsyntheticâ to imply that they are not natural but artificial. Against that use of the term, this article focuses on ...
https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase_mobile?openform&fp=jcp&id=jcp_2024_0999_11_6_52
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Hubert Dreyfus on what Heidegger suggested as an alternative to life in the thrall of modern technology: "Heidegger holds that we must learn to appreciate...practices such as friendship, backpacking into the wilderness, and drinking the local wine with friends."
#EcoHeidegger
#CrunchyBeing
about 1 year ago
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Proud to have slipped a "Weekend at Bernie's" reference into my essay on AI. Criticism would benefit from fewer invocations of puppets, marionettes, and epiphenomena, to allow for more lively shootouts to great comedic corpses.
about 1 year ago
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"Criticism that hands down sentences sends me to sleep." --Michel Foucault
about 1 year ago
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Hannes Bajohr
about 1 year ago
Hier kann man die Einleitung zum von Moritz Hiller und mir herausgegebenen Sonderband von Text+Kritik mit dem Titel "Das Subjekt des Schreibens: Ăber GroĂe Sprachmodelle" lesen:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Das Subjekt des Schreibens. Einleitung
PDF | Introduction to the special issue on "Das Subjekt des Schreibens. Ăber GroĂe Sprachmodelle" | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385744334_Das_Subjekt_des_Schreibens_Einleitung
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Twitter is like the USA, Bluesky is like Sweden
about 1 year ago
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recorded some lectures on LLMs and the encounter of limits
about 1 year ago
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"the structure of [Kant's] Critique of Pure Reason should be thought of in terms of various materials falling into a machine where they are then processed; and that what then emerges as the result of this processing is my knowledge." -Adorno (quoted in Bates, "Artificial History")
about 1 year ago
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A lot of academic criticism reminds me of Adorno's remark about Kafka's The Castle: "No sooner has the surveyor driven the bothersome assistants from his room in the inn than they climb back through the windowâŠ.The hero is too tired to drive them away again."
about 1 year ago
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Claude Lévi-Strauss on the claim that the absence of a word in a culture speaks volumes about its epistemology: "In every language...discourse and syntax supply indispensable means of supplementing deficiencies of vocabulary....In fact, the delimitation of concepts is different in every language"
about 1 year ago
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