A federal court judge ruled today that Texas State University must at least temporarily reinstate philosopher Idris Robinson, whom the university fired from his assistant professorship over a talk he gave about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

"So it's not that LLMs are right due to some sort of arbitrage that generates and exploits symbolic differences, but that structuralism was wrong about value appearing strictly via circulation. That's arbitrage theory; it's just not empirically valid." Great piece by @galloway.bsky.social

BREAKING: Nearly 1,000 faculty members at NYU are on strike. The union for non-tenured faculty, @CfuUaw, was optimistic about reaching an agreement this morning. But after giving the university a 3 hour extension, the two sides could not agree, and the strike is now on.

I will be teaching a class on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit through the @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social in Chicago this March! in case you were wondering whether you can cognize things as they are in and for themselves, I have great news for you thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...

Digital Theory, out today! @leifw.bsky.social @mbfazi.bsky.social

So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.

*very* excited about @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social’s new book, out next year w/ @uminnpress.bsky.social 🤖 🚫 www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...

Billionaire-owned “philosopher” Benjamin Bratton finally coming out as full technofash in this declaration of alliance with JD Vance & a16z — here’s his scathing rejection of those who “stand in the way” of corporate AI agendas nobody wants. www.noemamag.com/is-european-...

talk/essay idea: unpack all the missed encounters between authors... jameson not writing about kittler, derrida not writing about badiou, malabou (mostly) not writing about deleuze, etc..

counterpoint: *all* LLMs are revanchist by definition

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza. Israel seems to be intercepting right now. All eyes needed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

In his playful collection "Forty-Four Esolangs," Daniel Temkin (@dtemkin.bsky.social) challenges conventional definitions of language, code, and computer, showing the potential of esolangs—or esoteric programming languages—as pure idea art: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255308...

trump admin: we demand more conservatives be added to college curriculum me: *adds Bruno Latour to syllabus*

Informatics of Domination is out with @dukepress.bsky.social! I co-edited this experimental collection with Zach Blas + @melodyjue.bsky.social across years + countless zoom chats. I remain stunned by the brilliance of our 50 contributors: read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...

Devastated to learn of the tragic and untimely passing of Joshua Clover. His revolutionary intelligence and conviction (and great sense of humor) will be missed. www.unemployednegativity.com/2016/07/the-...

as columbia still refuses to say the names of its abducted students and accepts Trump's narrative about antisemitism on campus, i'm happy to bring this counter-narrative to campus. tomorrow night if no one shuts it down:

it’s actually hilarious that Habermas called Bataille, Foucault and Derrida “young conservatives” in 1980

all faculty and eligible university workers should pile into AAUP

In incredible company with this new release coming in May. Congrats to eds. Zach Blas, Melody Jue, and Jennifer Rhee. Diagrammatic Epilogue on my end. 30% off with code "E25ZBLAS" ordering from @dukepress.bsky.social www.dukeupress.edu/informatics-...

Zionist group with direct access to NYU administration advocating for and winning severe punishments for students and faculty protesting against the genocide. theintercept.com/2025/01/31/n...

📣 Action Alert: Please sign our open letter demanding that NYU administration rescind the Persona Non Grata designations of our colleagues and students and drop charges against arrested colleagues, we urge you to do so now! Please also circulate to your networks! forms.gle/buPzimRLTUHJ...

Consider signing this Open Letter to NYU Leadership for their shameful treatment of faculty protesting the genocide in Gaza. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

In Capital vol. 3, Marx writes that he wants to examine capitalism in its "idealen Durchschnitt." This is usually translated as "ideal average," but I believe a more accurate translation would be "ideal cross-section." I think this is a geological metaphor rather than a mathematical one. 1/5

David Golumbia died last year at the age of 60. I wrote about his posthumous book "Cyberlibertarianism," just recently published. www.boundary2.org/2024/12/alex...

we are also now hiring a professor in environmental media studies! open rank! please share, please apply. I am so thrilled at the prospect of having another colleague---> jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Kinda fucked up that letting unelectable partisan hacks have lifetime appointments and brazenly take bribes from billionaire perverts isn’t working out better

publication day! with ginormous thanks to all the inspirers and conspirers, and pre-orderers! let the wild rumpus start! www.versobooks.com/products/303...

92NY cancelled the appearance of Viet Thanh Nguyen because of his support for Palestinians. In response: “As writers of conscience, as anti-imperialist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial thinkers, we have cancelled our appearance at the 92nd Street Y.” Saidiya Hartman, Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe

Out soon from Verso books www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...