How do ethnic, racial, and colonial histories inform historical and contemporary practices of AI? Join us for an online talk and masterclass on 'Ethnicity and AI' with Kalindi Vora @[email protected] Edward Jones-Imhotep Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan on 30 April 2024: eventbrite.com/e/master-class…

“This unparalleled persistence in coming up with strategic weapons for further struggles is what ultimately WITH AND AGAINST unravels so beautifully” - ⁦Karl Baldacchino⁩ reviews my book (⁦Verso Books⁩)🙏🥰 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08…

Edward Said on the merits of a canon, when he visited Bard College around 2000: 'At least then we all had forgotten the same things.'

Cormac McCarthy's geo-political aesthetics: 'in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinships.”

HBD the great John Waters, friend and mentor, BOTD in 1946, turning 78 today. His movies definitely gave me permission to go above and beyond the call of filth duty!!!

Everything sounds sorta psychoanalytic if you say it in German

I feel very honoured to have been invited by Hito Steyerl and Francis Hunger to give a lecture on »Dreamworlds of Platform Capitalism« for their »Emergent Digital Media« class at AdBK Munich. Join us if you are in Munich on May 14!
generativemedia.net/event/dreamwor…
#PlatformRealism

Academic Joey: “The way in which you doin’?”

New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Benjamin Prinz and Henning Schmidgen, 'Vitalist Marxism: Georges Canguilhem and the Resistance of Life'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

This volume looks fantastic, and it has one of my favorite essays, in which Yijun Sun & Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan present 'a carrier bag theory of media' and make us think about the role of the vacuum tube and carrying techniques in media studies

Michel Foucault, Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, ed. Bernard E. Harcourt - Éditions du Seuil/Gallimard/ EHESS, May 2024

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Excited to be part of it! Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan and I contributed the chapter “Carried Away: The Carrier Bag Theory of Media,” where we discuss Le Guin, Simondon, Serres and Kittler within a carrier bag of media technics. Thanks to nicholas baer and Annie for making this happen!

It's publication day: Technics is now available in glorious open access! Many thanks to Amsterdam Univ Press and our 28 contributors for their brilliant interventions. Please feel free to share the download link!

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Now in published form: researchgate.net/publication/37…

My NYU Stern Keynote is now available:

Key takeaways:
- AI interpretability can facilitate insights across data types
- custom-built models are beneficial for interpretability-driven discovery
- to understand differences between artificial and biological intelligences, building

no cops no mines Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan Verso Books Duke University Press Thomas Dekeyser ⌜ktb⌟ Max Larson Here’s a better resolution where the text is actually legible. I have an article forthcoming with Historical Materialism Journal that analyses this poster and its circumstances …

starting momentarily, as soon as we figure out how to unlock the Zoom room :) please join us!

“Debord insisted existing technical infrastructure embodies class antagonism on level of design & thus could not simply be repurposed by working class after revolutionary seizure of power.' Situationist #InfrastructureStudies described by dominique routhier ◾️ in 'With and Against'