Desiree Foerster

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Happy to share my new article, just published with Multimodality & Society: "Representing mental images and immaterial processes in VR. A new materialist reading of Manic VR and Ayahuasca – Kosmik Journey." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong

You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies

This essay is a banger. houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/you-dont-n... (obligatory "wish it weren't on substack")

Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition | Ars Electronica Festival 2025: Panic In response to this year’s festival theme, PANIC – yes/no, the Campus Exhibition 2025 brings together 37 universities from across the globe and contributions from 14 departments of the University of A...

Our exhibition features works by Hunter Brown and AxLab members Anup Sathya, David Yuan, Alan Pham, Yuxiao Li, and Miyu Fukuoka. See you next week in Linz! #‪ars.electronica.art‬
ars.electronica.art/panic/en/vie...

So excited to present the amazing work of UChicago's students together with Ken Nakagaki at Ars Electronica's Campus Exhibition!

Tomorrow, August 7th is the deadline for comments to he EPA.

Takes a minute.

Please REPOST REPOST REPOST. Thank you!

🌎 #EPA

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I cannot imagine how the kinds of ‘knot-working’ - the bringing together of knowledges to create fresh insights - that arts & hums are so brilliant at, can be ‘built’ into what are essentially homogenisation machines. And what would be the point when 👋🏻? So, no.

Books: The Age of Diagnosis: Sickness, Health and Why Medicine Has Gone Too Far Suzanne O’Sullivan Hodder and Stoughton, 2025, HB, 320pp, £22.00, 978-1399727648 Suzanne O’Sullivan is a neurologist specialising in epilepsy who has come to prominence through her non-fiction book...

"there are people with the cute label ‘brain fog’, which can actually now be better understood as a form of brain damage" - can anyone point me in the direction of studies specifically about this? 🥹

Above quote about long covid is from ⤵️ review of Suzanne O’Sullivan’s book ‘The Age of Diagnosis’:

Sounds like a wonderful project! Congratulations!

Next week, I'm starting a new project called "Algorithmic Kitchen" with support from the @wellcometrust.bsky.social a project that weaves disability design with health tech. I'm ready to grow new networks with direct engagement with a touring kitchen!
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The Enigma of Peter Thiel There Is No Enigma — He's a Fascist

An dieser Stelle sei zum "Enigma" Peter Thiel dieser Text von @lioneltrolling.bsky.social empfohlen: "There Is No Enigma — He's a Fascist"

The sheer quantity of bullshit here. The solution to instructor exhaustion and overwork is not outsourcing grading (if that’s not direct mentoring of students, I don’t know what is) but hiring more faculty and reducing class sizes. Give the money to teachers, not Sam Altman

Wellington Greenway Support CDOT has released a plan to improve the bike network in the City of Chicago by adding a new greenway along the length of Wellington Ave, to help improve the safety of the many cyclists who already use...

Becuase we have to fight a mile at a time, please sign. actionnetwork.org/letters/well...

I’m looking forward to all the avenues of exploration, experiencing, and thinking new thoughts opened up by these three events.

| Center in Paris | The University of Chicago

3. I received an IIRP grant to organize a workshop on “Exploring New Avenues of Virtual Reality as a Narrative Medium” in Paris. centerinparis.uchicago.edu

2. The research project “Impressions of the Past: Re-imagining multimodal knowledge production,” supported by the Neubauer Collegium, finally kicked off: neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/research/imp...

Experience of Indeterminacy in Virtual Reality This essay analyzes a multidisciplinary study that uses virtual reality (VR) as a platform to explore experiences of indeterminacy.

Amid all the bad news that has become all too familiar, I was delighted about three recent developments: 1. With quite a bit of delay, my paper “Experience of Indeterminacy in Virtual Reality” was published in Hyperrhiz: New Media Culture: hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz28/...

Thanks for sharing!

Technology and Disability, Ashley Shew, Damien P. Williams, and Joshua Earle The three of us have taught classes about Technology and Disability through a philosophical lens, though this class has not been taught exclusively through philosophy departments. We’re excited to sha...

Heyo! New piece by me, @ashleyshoo.bsky.social and @wolvendamien.bsky.social on our syllabi and teaching philosophies around our class Technology and Disability is out!

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A lot of people in the US feel that as long as they can go on minding their daily lives of work and consumption that fascism has not arrived, but COVID, global warming, and Gaza has demonstrated that is precisely this desire to go on as if nothing is happening that drives contemporary fascism.

Yes! Couldn't agree more.

In Chicago nennen wir das Ghost train. Very common...

Über Jahre habe ich die Zeit gelesen, auch als ich aus D weggezogen bin. Dann war ich durch die Geschehnisse in den USA abgelenkt und habe ein paar Monate ausgesetzt. Als ich vor ein paar Wochen seit längerem nochmal die Zeit online aufgerufen habe, war ich geschockt. WTF

🚨 URGENT: CHICAGO ORGANIZER DETAINED BY ICE, SHOW UP NOW!!! 🚨

A longtime organizer in our Chicago community has just been detained by ICE. And she’s not alone, demonstrators outside have seen 3 people shackled in chains.

📍 GET TO 1930 Beach St., Broadview, IL RIGHT NOW.

A Mass Politics of Beauty: On Hull-House’s “Radical Craft” — Cleveland Review of Books It is an anti-elitist, capaciously democratic argument against the disfiguring mystifications that turn labor into commodities and art into the purchase of a privileged few.

Hull House!

"considered art the highest expression of human labor +believed that the way to foster a more flourishing society was to empower all people to share in the work..reminder that Chicago+the Midwest have long been places of leftist experimentation"

www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/a-ma...

Hours before a solar eclipse, spruce trees 'talk' to each other "Basically, we are watching the famous 'wood wide web' in action!"

Wait, whaaaaaat?!? 🌎🧪 www.space.com/stargazing/s...

Home | Uncommon Senses V Uncommon Senses V: Sensing the Social, the Environmental, and Across the Arts and Sciences will be taking place at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada this coming May. We are pleased to be welcomin...

On my way to my favorite conference (uncommon senses) in one of my favorite cities (Montreal)! sites.events.concordia.ca/sites/concor...

Thank you!

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