@jsrhee.bsky.social
AI, art, and speculative fiction
BREAKING: Prince George's County, the DC suburb of about 1 million people, is moving to suspend all data center permits while a task force completes a review of the projects and their impacts.
16.09.2025 15:37 β π 838 π 203 π¬ 6 π 54So, the uncanny valley shouldn't be used as a way to distinguish between humans + nonhumans, but instead as a way to identify when normative, dehumanizing conceptions of humanness are at work, so we can challenge + expand what counts as human.
(I wrote about this in my book The Robotic Imaginary.)
I've been seeing a resurgence of the uncanny valley lately, and I wanted to share my take on this theory. The uncanny valley theory is based on (and reproduces) narrow, exclusionary assumptions about human health, disability, and humanness more broadly.
10.09.2025 12:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This weekend I finished the manuscript for my book, *Not Inevitable: Counternarratives for Other AI Futures.* It's in the hands of my editor and the peer reviewers now. Godspeed, book.
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Title page for proofs of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century
Table of Contents, page 1, for Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, featuring the Introduction and Parts I and II on Scene Setting and Noticing, with contributors Oren Izenberg, Jane Hu, Beci Carver, Robert Stagg, Jeff Dolven and Joshua Kotin, and Adrienne Brown
Second page of TOC for Close Reading for the 21C, end of Part II, and Parts III and IV, with Katie Kadue, Summer Kim Lee, Julie Orlemanski, Lindsay Reckson, Natalia Cecire, Farah Bakaari, Omari Weekes, Elaine Auyoung, and Emily Ogden
Final page of TOC for Close Reading for the 21C, with the end of Part IV and Part V, and Practical Materials. Contributors: Pardis Dabashi, Brian Glavey, Noreen Masud, Stephanie Insley Hershinow, Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, and Christopher Spaide
Digital galleys are HERE for Close Reading for the 21C, which I co-edited with @johannawinant.bsky.social. You know you want it, want to review it. Write to barbara_tonetti [at] press [dot] princeton [dot] edu. Look at that gorgeous slate of contributors! Get it!
14.05.2025 13:58 β π 123 π 28 π¬ 3 π 4So stacked! I'm still pinching myself.
12.05.2025 11:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0this is, quite literally, a stacked collection of contributors
09.05.2025 20:14 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0So many brilliant scholars gathered in this collection! Canβt wait to get my hands on it
09.05.2025 15:24 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you!
09.05.2025 10:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Book Cover of Informatics of Domination
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
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Just Published: In 'Informatics of Domination,' edited by Zach Blas, @melodyjue.bsky.social, and @jsrhee.bsky.social, published by @dukepress.bsky.social, we were all set the task of writing about one entry each from Donna Haraway's famous chart in her 1984 legendary cyborg manifesto.
07.04.2025 13:58 β π 42 π 18 π¬ 3 π 0This book is a brilliant idea. The editors took @djeanneh.bsky.social 's Informatics of Domination chart from "A Manifesto for Cyborgs" & assigned each line to a different thinker -- @ritaraley.bsky.social , Alexander Galloway, Lucy Suchman, Homay King & others. An inventive & productive framework!
21.04.2025 19:25 β π 15 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Ana Teixeria Pinto, Tung-Hui Hu, @thaophan.bsky.social @djeanneh.bsky.social @patriciareed-am.bsky.social
08.05.2025 12:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Shaka McGlotten, Jian Neo Chen, Ho Rui An, Caroline A. Jones, Dalida Maria Benfield, Amy Sara Carroll, @rrdominguez.bsky.social @michacard.bsky.social @bicycleuser.bsky.social Astrida Neimanis, Stephanie Dinkins, madison moore, Homay King, Shu Lea Cheang, Matthew Fuller, Lucy Suchman,
08.05.2025 12:20 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0@amajosephine.bsky.social @baharnoorizadeh.bsky.social Mahan Moalemi, Larissa Lai, Isadora Neves Marques, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com Jacob Gaboury, Luciana Parisi, Ashkan Sepahvand, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Ashley Ferro-Murray, Justin Talplacido Shoulder, Jennifer Gabrys,
08.05.2025 12:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@ritaraley.bsky.social @alothian.bsky.social Radha May (@elisagiardinapapa.bsky.social @nupurmathur.bsky.social @bathshebaokwenje.bsky.social) @leonhilton.bsky.social, Eva Hayward, Stefan Helmreich, Ollie Zhang, HiΚ»ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, Kathy High, Lawrence Lek, Alex Galloway,
08.05.2025 12:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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...
08.05.2025 12:20 β π 22 π 11 π¬ 2 π 4
Cover of the Duke University Press Spring & Summer 2025 catalog. It is bright yellow with painting by Tommi Parrish of a human figure in orange, wearing a yellow hard hat, holding on to a burst pipe which spills water all over. The Duke University Press logo is in the bottom right.
Check out our new Spring 2025 catalog, which features work by @gentlemanjane.bsky.social, @jsrhee.bsky.social, @totomcgee.bsky.social, @burrata.bsky.social, @fbille.bsky.social & many more. Download it today!
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Thank you, @drkalyncoghill.bsky.social for sharing your research project, "Digital Misogynoir, AI, and Harm Detection" with the AI Futures Lab!
Folks, if you don't know about Kay's research, please check it out. It's brilliant and really important.
As a reader of academic texts, I prefer texts that open with an explanatory introduction rather than an evocative example, though I definitely appreciate the value of the latter. As a writer of academic texts I'm wondering how (un)common my preference is. Fellow readers, what do you prefer?
19.07.2024 11:54 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Calling upon anyone holding the reins in UKHE to do the right thing feels akin to that apocryphal story about the Dutch boy who tried to plug a hole in a dyke with his finger, but nonetheless, please everyone sign this, remember to like & subscribe, &c., &c.
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Congratulations, J.D.!!
01.01.2024 11:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Black text set against a beige background that reads: Grant Opportunity: We are offering seed grants of up to $5000 to support projects and professional development activities that will help to expand the AIAI Network. Deadline November 1, 2023. Further info: aiai.network/grants/
Do you live in/near Atlanta? Are you working at the intersection of AI and the humanities? Are you working at the intersection of AI and Atlanta? Do you want to be doing any of the above?
If your answer to any/all of those q's is yes, apply for an #AIAINetwork seed grant! aiai.network/grants/
Research finds that ChatGPT consumes 500 ml of water (about 16 oz) for every 5-50 prompts it answers.
Microsoftβs global water consumption β¬οΈ 34% from β21-β22 to 17 billion gl.
π£οΈWe are actively draining our resources for survival in the midst of climate collapse.
π¨ BOOK GIVEAWAY! π¨
I have 10 copies of Putting the Humanities PhD to Work that I'd love to give out. If you're a student, adjunct, or could otherwise benefit from a copy, comment on this post; I'll reach out privately to get your mailing address π
