D.E. Wittkower

Pleased to report that I am keeping it weird in academia. In the Spring, I'm bringing on several Mellon-funded research assistants; preferred qualifications include: Spanish language competence, knowledge of Medieval Scholasticism and Renaissance Hermeticism, and formal training in blade combat.

Sneak peek:

I'm giving a talk tomorrow from 12:20–1:20. Come by if you like! Distance attendance at:
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Meeting ID: 867 6779 0790
Passcode: 287458

Put this rapier together from a 45” Castille blade, a pommel and Thibault-style guard from Darkwood, and a grip that I made from PVC pipe, thermoplastic, and stingray leather.

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Immediate repost.

DDHF Embodied Interpretathon – Crowdbasierte Interpretation von mittelalterlichen Bewegungsbeschreibungen @Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, in Kooperation mit dem Deutschen Dachverband für...

Great experimental methodology in distributed embodied textual interpretation!

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Me: “Can you give me research leave?”
ODU: “To study AI?”
Me: “Yeeeeeess.”
me: [Actually researches Renaissance and Early Modern occult martial technologies, like a boss.]

(Related: I made this 7’ x 7’ “cercle mysterieux” from instructions in Gerard Thibault’s 1630 rapier manuscript.)

What Is It Like to Be a Bot? This chapter seeks to further develop, define, and differentiate human-technics alterity relations within postphenomenological philosophy of technology. A central case study of the Alexa digital assis...

Appreciate the shout-out! Link: www.academia.edu/44910780/Wha...

I'm giving a talk tomorrow at 3:30 Eastern. Zoom link below. Come by if you like! It’s based on a scholarly article called “The Bullshit Singularity is Near.” Pic is a sample slide, for a preview of the vibes.

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Passcode: 659054

OpenAI is a particularly amazing example of the problem AI has which is that the only way to convince people to use it is to make it do things which make it more expensive, but which nobody in their right minds would ever pay for

Apple hid content & privacy options relating to #AI under "Screen Time" under settings. Content and privacy have NOTHING to do with screen time. Filing the former in the latter hides options so that Apple can steal our content to feed their plagiarism-ecocide machines. #books #history #artstory

Vegetative electron microscopy is when I'm analyzing nanostructures after 40 hours without sleep

These new AI summaries are going to help me be so much more productive. Also, bonus: neither of these texts is about a bird or about napping, so that’s exciting.

Anyone watch the new Derrida adaptation yet?

The Schadenest of Freuden.

Q: "What did you find most interesting or surprising in the syllabus?"

Student: "It wasn't boring like most syllabi, but still annoying since there's a quiz."

Grading comment: "I think "annoying, but at least not boring" is a healthy and attainable goal for me in many aspects of my life."

Image shows two drawings of a dress that was featured in a viral internet post in 2015. People had difficulty agreeing on whether the dress was black and blue or white and gold. The drawing of the dress on the left has half of the dress against a black background and the other half against a background that corresponds to the black-or-gold color on the dress; the drawing of the dress on the right has half of the dress against a white background and the other half against a background that corresponds to the blue-or-white color on the dress. Text on the left reads "Black dress, yellow light." Text on the right reads "White dress, blue shadow." This illustrates how the colors of the dress can be perceived as either black and blue or white and gold depending on the viewer's intuitive perceptual context assumptions, showing that a sensation or sense-data that is "black" in one Gestalt can be the same as a sensation that is "gold" in another Gestalt.

Teaching Merleau-Ponty, BRB.

Photograph depicts a gray bucket in the corner of a room, contrasted by a white door behind it, a beachy yellow wall next to it, and honey-brown hardwood floors.

As we begin a new year, I’ve been thinking about how at this point in my life I only have one thing on my bucket list.

Image of several hygiene and cosmetic products on a bathroom countertop. Only the front-most product’s label can be seen and read. Cropping is tight, so that the overall impression is that of a picture of one product with nondescript other bathroom products behind it. Product is 30 spf sunscreen, but “e.l.f. skin” are the most prominent words on the label. Although e.l.f. Is a well-known brand name, the periods between letters are small, making it easy to misread as “elf skin”.

Shocked this is legal; joining PETA immediately.

Class prep notes that I’m sharing with students. Would’ve stuck to English if I’d planned on providing them.

Thank goodness I have a smartwatch so that I can get important alerts immediately.

In order to manage workload, it seems to me like the Provost would be able to appoint a champion of their choice to represent them. A side effect would be incentivizing appointment of faculty with excellent weapons skills.

Talking to a student after class; heard something and froze.

Student: "What is it?"
Me: [waiting another 5 seconds]
Me: "Nothing I guess. It's just very ominous to suddenly hear a pitch pipe from the hallway."

Not me having to read this twice because I was like "wait, what now about Magic: The Gathering?"

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We are a pluralistic department with an emphasis in philosophy and technology—this is a great opportunity to work somewhere where you won't be out on your own in these topics!

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We are hiring a Lecturer (non-tenure track) in Social/Political or Philosophy of Law. Send me any questions!

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