Goran Gaber

Book cover of "Postanarchism and Critical Practices" by Saul Newman & Tihomir Topuzovski.

Now in paperback!

Engaging with debates about the political role of art in an era of total market subsumption, Postanarchism and Critical Art Practices shows how artists respond to the challenges of political authoritarianism.

Preview: https://bit.ly/3XmA6d7
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4oQCIvU

🤖 NEW PAPER 🤖 : @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social's new paper 'AI empiricism: the only game in town?' is forthcoming in 'The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Science: Methodological and Epistemological Studies' (Routledge).

Read here: philpapers.org/rec/KARAET-4

Beyond ecstatic to be able to put together this lineup for our little workshop on the Philosophy of Computational Methods in Science.

#philsci

Important new piece from RGCS postdoc alum Samuel Bagg @samuel-bagg.bsky.social , now Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina:

UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE AI Movies & AI Ideology MuseumNacht Enschede Concordia Film Theatre 8 November 2025 Dr. Nolen Gertz Associate Professor of Applied Philosophy University of Twente

Preparing for my AI movie event tonight...

Final touches with Stéphanie Hubert, for her grand opening tomorrow at the @mfoxford.bsky.social !

Also join us for a conversation on #AI & #photography with Haley Morris-Cafiero, @michaelchristbrown.bsky.social & Stéphanie, from 15h30-18h30.

Register here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/maison-franc...

YouTube video by goran gaber Mind the Gap: On the politics of digital archives and historical theory in the digital age

When you gaze long enough into the #digital, the digital gazes back into you 👀

Here an #AI take on my paper on the #politics of #archives and the #philosophy of #history in the digital age

youtu.be/3Oj-fddOwR8

If you're curious for more, read it here:

doi.org/10.1080/1364...

#PhilSky #PhilSci

Reminder: The call has opened for the second edition of 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴: 𝘈 𝘋𝘈𝘙𝘐𝘈𝘏 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 💎

Researchers, scholars, practitioners, and cultural heritage professionals are invited to reflect on the theme of the DARIAH Annual Event 2025: “The Past”🏛️

#CallforPapers

➡️ www.dariah.eu/2025/09/16/t...

"Data Centers & Vulnerable Resources: The #AI explosion and our #water": The event is free and open to the public; register now and join us in person at the SCU Library, St. Clare Room, or online via Zoom: events.scu.edu/arts-and-sci...

Enlightenment Workshop

Happy to announce the Enlightenment Workshop Programme 2025-26!

This year convened by Nicholas Cronk and Jacob Chatterjee (New College).

Come for a packed November!

www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...

How does naming become an act of domination? Find out Monday at Noon as Dr. Ben Brower unpacks “The Colonization of Names: Symbolic Violence and France’s Occupation of Algeria.”

Mon. Oct. 13 | Noon–1:30pm | GAR 4.100
Info/RSVP: bit.ly/BrowerIHS

#ReadUP #HistoryMatters #PostcolonialStudies

📢We’re happy to present the next activity of SCIPLU: the launch of HISTEPS, an online monthly seminar series on the history & philosophy of science, coordinated by
@mvagelli.bsky.social

⬇️See the full programme below for more info

🪞Workshop: «Crossroads in the Political Philosophy of Language».

📅November 12-14, 2025.

🏛️Faculty of Philosophy and Education Sciences.

Further details coming soon...

🤩 Meet our new Journalist Fellows joining us this term:

🇦🇺 Vince Chadwick
🇺🇸 Dante Dallago
🇧🇬 Boryana Dzhambazova
🇳🇬 Patrick Egwu
🇫🇮 Salla-Rosa Gröhn
🇮🇳 Banjot Kaur
🇬🇧 William Kremer
🇲🇽 Adriana Navarro Ramírez
🇭🇷 Barbara Strbac
🇵🇸 Shatha Yaish

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/10-jour...

The Difference Between Bullets and Stones A book of poems and photographs by Pulitzer Prize Winner Mosab Abu Toha and National Geographic photographer Michael Christopher Brown

Support if you can ✊ www.kickstarter.com/projects/bul...

Society hosts Edinburgh symposium on AI and history teaching - RHS On 29 September, the Society hosted a symposium to discuss Artificial Intelligence in history teaching in higher education. The event, held at the University of Edinburgh, brought together 25 historia...

Earlier this week, the Society hosted a symposium in Edinburgh bringing together 25 historians and current history students to discuss Artificial Intelligence in history teaching in higher education: bit.ly/3IBe5Dv

We also invited attendees to propose guides of particular use for historians 1/2

When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.

Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!

Researchers during a workshop organized by the Lab.

A research partner shares private documents during an oral history interview. Source: Eddie Bolger (2025).

Photograph of a hand holding the English and German versions of the current Feature Story, captured in the MPIWG's "Laboratory for Multimodal History." Source: Niclas Look (2025).

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science is excited to announce the launch of its new "Laboratory for #Multimodal History," an inclusive space for audiovisual experimentation and collaborative research headed by Jesse Olszynko-Gryn 🎙

🔗 bit.ly/4pB7tKl

#OralHistory #HistSci #HistMed

If you’re working on underrepresented or non-canonical philosophical themes or figures, now’s the time to polish up your manuscript!

3 months left to submit to the Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy.

Deadline: January 1, 2026
journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nn...

#philsky

Image of historical map with text: Call for papers: History and Archives in Practice, 16 April 2026, University of Sheffield. In partnership with the University of Sheffield Library.

'History and Archives in Practice, 2026': call for participation now open bit.ly/4pITZrs

HAP26 takes place @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social
on the theme of 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives & Historical Research'. With @ihr.bsky.social & @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

Front cover of the winter semester 2025/26 History of Knowledge course list (KVV)

The Berlin History of Knowledge Course List (KVV) for winter semester 2025/26 is now available online! This list conveniently compiles all history of knowledge and science courses
@humboldtuni.bsky.social, @tuberlin.bsky.social, and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.

🔗 bit.ly/438eouS

#HistSci

Mind the Gap. On archival politics and historical theory in the digital age Modern archival scholarship and practice are strikingly absent from contemporary historical theory. Given the archive’s enduring importance for history and its long-thematized political aspects, th...

Is "the digital" presentist and apolitical?

This paper shows how data centres, platform economy, and community-led digital archiving are reshaping contemporary theory of history.

Read👇

doi.org/10.1080/1364...

#philsky #philsci #STS #history #politics #AI #infrastructure #archives

Why AI needs social science | British Politics and Policy at LSE AI is about humans, that's why it needs to be shaped not just by computer science, but by social science.

"If people are central to AI, the social sciences must play a key role in AI advancement."

On @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social @helenmargetts.bsky.social and Cosmina Dorobantu @lsedatascience.bsky.social argue that AI needs to be shaped not just by computer science, but by #SocialScience.

The Brain as Economy: Intellectual Labor and Mental Efficiency in Twentieth-Century Poland by Marek Maj This think piece is part of the forum “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”

In a new think piece for the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Marek Maj discusses how, before the Soviet Union's détente with the West, Polish scientists attempted to render intellectual labor more efficient by adapting and revising the Western managerial turn to motivation.

Mind the Gap. On archival politics and historical theory in the digital age Modern archival scholarship and practice are strikingly absent from contemporary historical theory. Given the archive’s enduring importance for history and its long-thematized political aspects, th...

📖 New article: Goran Gaber (Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow and DiSc Fellow has a new article titled Mind the Gap. On archival politics and historical theory in the digital age:

Philosophy job seekers: there is a 6-year postdoc in philosophy of language coming up at the University of Vienna. See advertisement here: philjobs.org/job/show/29670

AI and Society: Why do social sciences matter?

❓Why do #socialsciences matter in the age of AI?
📽️Watch experts @carlbfrey.bsky.social @helenmargetts.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk Robert Trager @oxmartinschool.bsky.social & Keegan McBride as they explore social sciences' critical role in preparing us for the future www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/ai-and-society

Mind the Gap. On archival politics and historical theory in the digital age Modern archival scholarship and practice are strikingly absent from contemporary historical theory. Given the archive’s enduring importance for history and its long-thematized political aspects, th...

Why does contemporary theory of history neglect digital archival scholarship and how does this affect its understanding of the politics of history?

Read about it in my new paper for @tandfresearch.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#digitalhumanities #archives #history #politics