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Taking a one-week hiatus, on 8/15 @ 10AM ORG will carry on discussing Chapters 2 & 3 of Weatherby's Language Games: "The Eliza Effect Goes Global: Intelligence as Simulacrum", and "The Semiological Surround, or How Language is the Medium of Computation".

Next Friday (8/1 10AM) we will carry on reading Language Machines, Ch.1: "...the humanities lost public and even academic status as the primary knowers of language in the [1990s high period of literary theory]; the recovery of the object is urgent for a world with language machines."

This Friday (7/25 10AM), ORG will read the Introduction to @leifw.bsky.social's new book Language Machines.
www.upress.umn.edu/978145297351...

Stochastic contingency machines feeding on meaning: on the computational determination of social reality in machine learning - AI & SOCIETY In this paper, I reflect on the puzzle that machine learning presents to social theory to develop an account of its distinct impact on social reality. I start by presenting how machine learning has pr...

This Friday (6/27 10AM) ORG will read Richard Groß's piece in AI & Society, "Stochastic contingency machines feeding on meaning: on the computational determination of social reality in machine learning"

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Alan Díaz Alva: Technics and Contingency For the official version of record, see here: Díaz Alva, A. (2023). Technics and Contingency: Ontological Productivity in Computation. Media Theory, 7(2), 37–76. Retrieved from Technics a…

Next Friday (6/13 10AM), ORG will read Alan Diaz Alva's 2023 article in @meejatheory.bsky.social Media Theory, "Technics and Contingency: Ontological Productivity in Computation"

mediatheoryjournal.org/2024/02/20/a...

This Friday (6/6 10AM) ORG will discuss @akarshkumar0101.bsky.social, Clune, Lehman & Stanley's paper, "Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning: The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis".

Next week (5/30 10AM) ORG will conclude our reading of Overwijk's Cybernetic Capitalism, reading Chapter 4 and the Epilogue.

Next week (5/23 10AM) we will continue with Overwijk's Cybernetic Capitalism, reading Chapter 3, "The Vitalist Alternative: Sympoietic Multitudes"

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Next week (5/16 10AM) we will carry on with Overwijk's Cybernetic Capitalism, reading Chapter 2, "Spiraling into Control: Paradoxes of Thermodynamic Rationalization"

This Friday (5/9) ORG will be discussing Ch.1 of @jloverwijk.bsky.social's new book Cybernetic Capitalism: A Critical Theory of the Incommunicable. NB: We will be meeting one hour later than usual, at 11AM ET

The Evolution of the Chinese Internet | Stanford University Press Despite widespread consensus that China's digital revolution was sure to bring about massive democratic reforms, such changes have not come to pass. While scholars and policy makers alternate between ...

Next week (4/18 10AM) ORG will read Chapter 1 of Shaohua Guo's book, The Evolution of the Chinese Internet: Creative Visibility in the Digital Public.

www.sup.org/books/asian-...

www.triple-c.at/index.php/tr...

Next week (4/11 10AM) ORG will read @machinemarx.bsky.social's recent article, "Value and Productive Labour in the Era of Digital Technologies: Revisiting the Digital Labour Debate", revisiting the digital labour debate to clarify and problematise its many different positions.

Envisioning Information Access Systems: What Makes for Good Tools and a Healthy Web? | ACM Transactions on the Web We observe a recent trend toward applying large language models (LLMs) in search and positioning them as effective information access systems. While the interfaces may look appealing and the apparent ...

On Friday, April 4th, ORG will be reading Shah Chirag and Emily M. Bender's 2024 article, "Envisioning Information Access Systems: What Makes for Good Tools and a Healthy Web?"

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

This morning ORG will be reading Ori Schwarz’s recent article, "The Post-Choice Society: Algorithmic Prediction and the Decentring of Choice”:

doi.org/10.1177/0263...

This Friday we will continue to read chapter one of Maja Bak Herrie’s new book Thinking Through Data: How Outliers, Aggregates, and Patterns Shape Perception.

Next week ORG will read the introduction to Maja Bak Herrie’s new book Thinking Through Data: How Outliers, Aggregates, and Patterns Shape Perception.

www.sup.org/books/thinki...