My paper, “Species-Being, Metabolism, and Natural Limits” is now out in Qui Parle

an honor to be interviewed by Robin Manley for @jhideas.bsky.social - come for the spicy takes on critical AI and media history, stay for the stuff on Saussure and dialectics

I had the pleasure of interviewing @leifw.bsky.social about his exciting new book, Language Machines! If you’ve ever wondered whether the unconscious is structured like a large language model, you’ll get a lot from Leif’s reflections here — and from the book, out soon from @uminnpress.bsky.social

trying to explain to normies that the state has been captured by a technofascist apocalyptic AI death cult

putting this out once more: my attempt to demonstrate that Foucault seriously misrepresents Nietzsche's philosophy of history in his account of the genealogical method. perhaps of interest to Foucault scholars, as well as those in lit/media/science studies thinking about historicism & its limits!

the vice president of research at google citing Jane Bennett to argue that AI systems are alive... who could have possibly seen this coming

have you ever thought: I don't know Foucault, maybe knowledge isn't only for cutting? or: I'm not sure it's true that Nietzsche has two different concepts of origin in the preface to the Genealogy of Morals? you might be interested in my new article, open access from @theoryculturesociety.org!

New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Robin Manley, 'The Disunity in Genealogy: Foucault’s Anti-Nietzschean Reading of History'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

"Aligned to" is a way of saying that they have no proof that he provided anything that could be legally construed as material support to Hamas, or showed allegiance to Hamas in any way, but he said some things they decided are vaguely in alignment with Hamas and they're imprisoning him for it.

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

i have come to feel that both of them (and 'pundit genre' they are a part of) are eating off of a fundamental revulsion not so much at the technology but the habits of mind of the people pushing them.

This is a really specific engagement with @annakornbluh.bsky.social 's work from Jensen. I don't always agree with it, but I found it provocative and enjoyable to read. It's the kind of criticism that makes us all better interlocutors. I hope Anna will respond? nonsite.org/the-theory-o...

look i know this is not the point but a 90% error rate is sort of impressive? surely it takes some skill to get the numbers that low. plus, just invert your decisions and suddenly you've got a half-decent system

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staring in awe at endnotes from an Eminent Scholar in which the URLs that are provided in place of proper bibliographic reference have been shortened with ellipses

imo it should be illegal for men in their 20s to quote the freakonomics podcast at me

already prefigured here is late Marcuse’s concept of “New Science” (a communist Scienza Nuova: universal participation in the fusion of natural science & art, conscious membership in the living history of matter) is that it’s an incredible anticipation of degrowth, &, imo, requires nothing less!

Marcuse would like a word with the neo-Luddites

This is good — but a key thing to reckon with in this discussion is the way that the neural network model implemented by LLMs has also been used to transform our scientific and even philosophical accounts of human thought in the first place

lots of incorrect marx takes flying around over on twitter this morning