Ben Gook

Learned so much from my exchange with Rosaura Martinez Ruiz on surplus populations and authoritarianism - the first of our transnational and transconceptual dialogues on the Emergencies of Authoritarianism
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Landtagswahl.ai KI-generierte Bilder aus den Wahlprogrammen der Parteien zur Landtagswahl - Ausstellung und Podiumsdiskussion; Materialien für Schulklassen

There’s a growing & deeply problematic tendency to use #genAI for political and historical education Take this example from Germany, which translates as: «Hey AI, who should I vote for.» What’s typical here is that AI is not only addressed as pseudo-person but also as a kind of impartial judge
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fantastic book, now in English

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It was more sociological. Reconstructed from Wright Mills, then through some ecohumanities work.

I feel like there was a queer theory thing with lichens a few years ago; a parallel track to the mushroom obsession. currents.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cu...

Interesting topic! Funnily enough, I had an honours student write a thesis this year on the idea of 'milieu' and Bresson's final films, including L'Argent

The next post is the real kicker bsky.app/profile/miri...

The corrected version of a Deloitte report to the Albanese government reissued by the big consulting firm after it was found to include AI-generated mistakes contains new citation errors and other flaws in referencing the academic work it relies on. Two academics have questioned the relevance of citations of their work in the new report, raising concerns that Deloitte merely substituted out false references to works that don’t exist in favour of real works with no or very limited relevance to welfare compliance, which was the subject of the report.

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More errors, ‘irrelevant citations’ in Deloitte’s revised AI report Academics question how AI-generated “gobbledegook” can be justified after the fact by irrelevant citations, as the big four firm republishes its welfare report.

Defund consultants www.afr.com/politics/fed...

Freud, Slovenia, and the Origins of Right-Wing Populism - Notes - e-flux Mladen Dolar uncovers a series of curious historical encounters that set the stage for the world we know today.

"Unwritten laws form the very fabric of society+ its ethical foundation. Every populism starts with breaking the unwritten rules.

Psychoanalysis was born at exactly the historical moment of the rise of new authorities. its mission demanded their dismantling."

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I remember reading that; great essay. (Redundant statement where the byline is M Dolar.)

America is now one big bet on AI It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

Has there ever been a bubble with so much reflexivity regarding its status as a bubble as this one? www.ft.com/content/6cc8...

Binswanger and Existential Analysis | Columbia University Press In the early 1950s, the young Michel Foucault took a keen interest in the method of existential analysis—Daseinsanalyse—developed by the Swiss psychiatri... | CUP

Join us tonight (10/1) for the launch of Michel Foucault's 1953-54 book, newly published in English by @columbiaup.bsky.social, *Binswanger and Existential Analysis* at 7pm at @bookculture.com on 112th bet. Broadway and Amsterdam. We will discuss the early Foucault: cup.columbia.edu/book/binswan...

Jonathan Lear has died. I had the pleasure to work with him in Chicago a couple of years ago.

We had fruitful disputes about philosophy and psychoanalysis as well as about the need to appreciate the silent presence of negativity in both.

What a devastating loss.

Cool, so what happens when they graduate and their access ends. All this is doing is turning students into a guaranteed revenue stream for the company.

Or Andrew Arato. That guy does not hold back in a review. Also a constitution guy.

Always interesting to see some Flusser get a run.

“The far-right AfD, now the 2nd largest party, is attempting to revive the stigmatisation of the disabled, on the basis of the populist fantasy that they are the product of incestuous unions between immigrants. Prejudice against disabled people & racial minorities is being whipped up once more.“

See the post before my repost of your post ;)
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🌹 Hi there: I'm still looking for a job & short-term gigs 🌹

• Main research interests: financialisation studies, French philosophy/political phil, French econ history & francophone colonial hist & activism.

• Journalism: French politics & activism & long-form on French thought & culture.

Job in feminist continental philosophy! uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcare...

Kinda mirrors how the Spotify founders (per Liz Pelly's book) couldn't give two shits about music but started it as an advertising grift.

Also not coincidental that "regulation" is the shared bugbear of AI boosters and "abundance" hacks

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For sure. Surprised more boomers haven’t turned to it for material — seems like a formative Grand Tour for Brits (and Euros) of that vintage.

Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition - Wikipedia

Basically the origin story of Lonely Planet travel guides, which followed this to Australia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_...

Active Noise Control: Cybernetics, Information Theory, and the Financialization of Randomness | Philosophy, Politics and Critique In the second half of the twentieth century, Claude Shannon’s 1948 definition of noise as the enemy of communication became hegemonic basis of polities, economies, emergent network technologies and th...

New co-authored piece out today in Philosophy, Politics and Critique. It's from a special issue on 'the random' with stellar contributors - check out the whole issue, edited by Ranjan Ghosh. www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...

Truly a libidinal economy.