Hi ✨ Together with Anna Schjøtt Hansen and Tobias Blanke, I organize the #CriticalAI Seminar Series @uvahumanities.bsky.social. This is the 24-25 program🙌
⚡The sessions are online and open to everyone, find more info and sign up here: t.co/ScqpC7ZDrT
27.11.2024 11:59 — 👍 133 🔁 56 💬 4 📌 5
Fabian Muniesa (2024), Paranoid Finance, Polity (Theory Redux)
"There is a link between finance and paranoia, and that link may well be inescapable" www.wiley.com/Paranoid+Fin...
30.01.2025 15:48 — 👍 33 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 2
Check our new paper on how EA philanthropy measures and prioritises 'effectiveness' and supports interventions in global health, cultured meat and AI
26.02.2025 12:40 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON, D. C.
Dec. 2, 1949
Dr. Norbert Wiener
Mass. Institute of Technology Cambridge, Nass.
My dear Dr. Wiener:
The publication of your book on Cybernetics has caused the editorial staff which is in charge of the revision of the Dewey Decimal Classification considerable difficulty. We are in the position of being asked by sincere inquirers as to how to classify the book and by less sincere people who like to confront supposedly expert classifiers with problems which they are quite certain are beyond our capabilities. Quite frankly, cybernetics is. We have read and reread reviews and explanations of the content of your book and have even tried to understand the book itself, only to become more uncertain as to what field it falls into. I am appealing to you as the one person who should be able to tell us.
Possibly you already know that the Dewey Decimal Classification attempts to assign a number to the subject content of books. Generally speaking, a book can only be assigned one number and consequently we cannot take care of the many aspects that certain works cover. The problem must be simplified and consequently, is your book such as to place it in psychology? Does it belong in the field of electronic computation devices or does it belong in mathematics?
If we were not somewhat desperate about this particular problem, I should hesitate to bother you with it.
Cordially yours,
Esther P. Potter
Director
A frustrated letter from the Library of Congress asking Norbert Weiner what section of a library his book is supposed to be in (1949).
12.12.2024 16:30 — 👍 245 🔁 83 💬 10 📌 15
JHI 85.4 now available!
The latest issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas (volume 85, issue 4) is now live on Project MUSE. Women and Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century, Part Two: Activists, Academics, ...
The new issue of the JHI is now available online, featuring terrific articles by Sophie Smith (open access), Mia Korpiola and Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde (open access), Alexander D. Batson, Tyler J. Thomas, Niccolò Valmori, Giuseppe Bianco, and Sarah Shortall.
web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2024...
25.11.2024 15:22 — 👍 40 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 2
The absolute pinnacle of British engineering • unprofessional account of a Bristol Uni STSish researcher interested in digital energy infrastructure, cyber security expertise, and hyped up technologies • cover by https://disect.me/
Professor of political theory at the University of Rennes | Editor of Raisons Politiques | Migration, citizenship, democracy
History & Politics | Disaster & Environment | Humanitarianism & Development | Sciences Po & IHEID graduate | research associate for ERC project "Archipelagic Imperatives. Shipwreck and Lifesaving in European Societies since 1800" @zfl-berlin.bsky.social
Journalist • Deutschlandfunk • German Public Radio
Presses de Sciences Po, maison d'édition de sciences humaines et sociales. #shs #sciencespo #socio #droit #économie #international #histoire #santé #genre #climat
Professor of Political Theory. Technology, politics, ethics and war are my main preoccupations. Lately also the Apocalypse.
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political philosophy, social philosophy, critical theories; dissertation work on un/timely conceptions of the future with Arendt, Fanon, Césaire and Anders
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An interdisciplinary research centre at University of Cambridge exploring the nature, ethics and impact of artificial intelligence (AI).
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Assoc Prof at @UniofOxford working on global public health, from neglected tropical diseases to vaccines: www.samanthavanderslott.com
IR & Historical Sociology. Prof of IR, Cambridge POLIS. Author of Before the West & After Defeat. Current AE at International Organization. A 'citizen of nowhere' with three passports...
Publishing on the history of ideas in global contexts, based @standrewsiih.bsky.social, printed @routledgehistory.bsky.social. Chief Editor, @rosariolopez.bsky.social; Reviews Editor, @tomaashby.bsky.social.
Not bothering
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Asst Prof in International Relations, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (@radboudpol.bsky.social) 🇳🇱; IR theory, foreign policy, communication, security, intervention; no-fly zones; he/him; posts in 🇩🇪/🇬🇧
STS at University of Birmingham, only just joined the app, will see how it goes
Tech & Politics. Career Development Research Fellow at St Johns College, Oxford. PhD from Cambridge University via Queen's University Belfast & Stanford. Host of the Anti-Dystopians, the politics podcast about tech. she/her
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