Scott Singeisen

A green convertible 1971 Triumph TR6

A 2025 white Mercedes-Benz wagon

I need someone to psychoanalyze why I can't decide between these two cars...comments are open

Only 39 months of this left to go.

Ekphrasis Ex Machina: Desire and the Death Drive in the Age of AI Emily Singeisen contextualizes AI, a technologically novel way of exploiting language, within some very old fantasies.

Thrilled to be included among fabulous contributors to the latest edition of Dilettante Army, “Ekphrasis.”

Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.

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a man singing into a microphone with the words that 's the thing i 'm sensitive about below him ALT: a man singing into a microphone with the words that 's the thing i 'm sensitive about below him

Me, a comparatist, when Reviewer 2 tells me my work isn’t art historical enough to be art history, classical enough to be classics, or literary enough to be lit crit:

Mail in ballots: pen on paper

Polling booth: digitally scanned paper

Which one is more likely to be easily manipulated and then hidden? Yeah.

#elections #2026elections #trump

How To Sink A Ship: Preparing The SS United States For Its Final Journey When we last brought you word of the SS United States, the future of the storied vessel was unclear. Since 1996, the 990 foot (302 meter) ship — the largest ocean liner ever to be constructed…

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Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.”

#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.

A photo of three egg yolks in a bowl - except only two eggs were cracked.

Would someone with more scientific experience please explain our egg with two yolks? @esing.bsky.social #STEM

Isn’t that terrazzo? (Hard to tell entirely from pic)

Falls kill more people than guns or cars, but nobody wants to talk about it. But we are going to start talking about it right here in a series about dangerous design.

The numbers are shocking: in the USA in 2013, 46,728 died from firearms. 40,901 died from car crashes. And 47,206 died from falls. But hey, most of them were old, so it's not news, even though most of them are victims of dangerous design.

The cover of The Odyssey by Homer translated by Emily Wilson

Umm, but…

Amazing.

I had an architectural client when I was working in FL. He was an ex producer for Elvis and was now recording ambient music CDs of whale sounds. We designed his sample music kiosks and when that went well we designed his recording studio. You were the precursor for our work I’m sure!

And the 5 CD changer! 👌🏻

Close-up of a vintage dual cassette tape deck, once used to copy mixtapes and share music before digital file sharing platforms like Napster.

Before Napster, this was peer-to-peer sharing

@esing.bsky.social

I can’t wait for Colbert to join Letterman on ‘My Next Guest’ to discuss CBS.

If any of my #rarebooks friends have done research at Princeton Firestone Library, I would love to ask you a couple of logistical questions about visiting as an out-of-towner! Simple Q’s but the library phone number redirects to the website and I can’t find the info I’m looking for…

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August 1

Who needs coffee when you have Academia to make you feel white hot rage before 8 a.m.?

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Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower was published in 1993 and starts in 2024—a 31-year leap. Are creators imagining futures that are closer or further away?

Explore a *new* dataset of 2.5k narrative works set in the future, each tagged with its release year and setting.

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Emily Herring's book Herald of a Restless World. How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People outside on a wooden table in front of a nice floral backdrop

To celebrate the release of 'Herald of a Restless World' in paperback, I am doing a BOOK GIVEAWAY.
For a chance to win and find out why a philosopher's lectures caused the first ever traffic jam on Broadway share this post and tag someone in the comments!

I'll announce the winner a week from now!

@esing.bsky.social We can share this if we win 😉

Screen grab from website Academia.edu, with message "An AI created a podcast of your paper," the label "Private to you," and a button to listen to the podcast

For academics & scholars who've uploaded papers to Academia, this message I received this morning should be of major concern. I'll delete my account, but I assume damage is done & they've already scraped everything of mine. Should stand as a warning about sharing one's work on commercial websites

"Philosophy is an intensity that arises when someone is taken hostage by their own questions.", Emanuele Coccia

A blue cloud of gas

A blue cloud of gas

Two blue clouds of gas

A cloud is both a world and a passing shape. It escapes the map, the drawing, the measure.

No two clouds are the same — though we learn to draw them as if they were.

In April, I was invited to join the #CLOUD project, which stands for Clouds Lent Out Use Discipline. It may not look like much yet, but it’s been a long journey to get here—and I still have 24 hours to refine my cloud before handing it off to the next collaborator. Stay tuned!

This Day in Labor History: April 14, 1816. Bussa’s Rebellion began in Barbados, when 5,000 slaves rose up against the evil system of slavery the British had placed them into, part of the broader labor system of colonization. This failed, but laid the groundwork for British emancipation!