Jeffrey West Kirkwood

The Meaning of AI A conference on artificial intelligence and the humanities

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Reckoning with Everything. The Becoming-Environmental of Computing › meson press Computation must and has always had to “reckon with everything.” This volume brings together contributions that seek to describe the environmentality of computation based on selected settings.

New chapter on ocean digitalization and governance out in volume edited by Bernhard Siegert, alongside great essays by Jussi Parikka, Geoffrey Bowker, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social and others

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Coming up in 2 weeks at the University of Chicago

Reckoning with Everything. The Becoming-Environmental of Computing › meson press Computation must and has always had to “reckon with everything.” This volume brings together contributions that seek to describe the environmentality of computation based on selected settings.

My new text on parallel processing and the financial nature of AI is online open source (along with a bunch of other killer texts) in the new volume Reckoning with Everything edited by Bernhard Siegert and Benedikt Merkle for Meson Press meson.press/books/reckon...

!! Should be a blast

Meaning of AI conference at University of Chicago end of February with me, Leif Weatherby, Yuk Hui, Nan Z Da, N. Katherine Hayles, Hannes Bajohr, James Duesterberg, Anastasia Berg. Will be streamed and extremely rockin

Yeah I don’t get it

He and his brother were my hometown heroes growing up

Prediction: the successor to postmodernism | Andreessen Horowitz Prediction is emerging as the defining framework beyond postmodernism — reshaping business models, technology adoption, and cultural trends. Explore how AI, prediction markets, and speculation are dri...

a student has alerted me to the fact that Andreesen Horowitz is citing Fredric Jameson in its newsletters a16z.com/prediction-t...

I really hope it's embraced

At least in our case it's been the former

SUNY Binghamton just substantially increased stipends for grad students and we have several fully-funded PhD spots in art history. Pretty sure our endowment is smaller more our placement record is great
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

TT job alert. My department is hiring an assistant professor in architectural history and urban studies in any geographical area, post-500 CE binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

- Criticism - e-flux The terms for the 13th Berlin Biennale are set out in the first room of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art. On display is Armin Linke

I wrote about the 13th Berlin Biennale for @eflux.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/criticism/67...

@jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social‬, your book flipped my thinking about machines and humans in so many ways. An important history to prepare us for the coming AI disruptions.

The highest possible compliment, thank you! It was wonderful review and I learned a lot about my book from it

A Review of Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 by Jeffrey West Kirkwood We take for granted the layers of mechanized intervals that shape contemporary experience, just as we overlook the gaps between letters, words, and sentences when we read. We get from here to there wh...

Delighted to read the excellent review by @wluers.bsky.social of my book Endless Intervals in @electronicbook electronicbookreview.com/essay/a-revi...
@uminnpress.bsky.social

I can’t wait to be in one of my favourite places, Rome, to speak at this conference at the Bibliotheca Hertziana. I will present an argument for a transcendental philosophy of computation.

My abstract is the pic below, and full programme is here: www.biblhertz.it/events/41601...

@bhmpi.bsky.social

My grad seminar for next semester is set to be banger

spacex, twitter, and tesla stock share one important feature: they're crashing

Found the vp’s tailor

We Buy White Albums was one of the smartest projects I can remember ever seeing
rutherfordchang.com/white.html

Artist Project / Poster Insert: Alphabetized Newspaper | Rutherford Chang Edition late

We are saddened to learn that artist Rutherford Chang has passed away. In 2004, Rutherford proposed a spectacular poster for our “Average” issue: The New York Times’s front page with every section’s words cut out (by hand!) and reordered alphabetically.

www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/15/ch...

Sometimes I wonder how a robot would feel encountering this when simply trying to catch up on lit in the humanities

Tyrannical 14 yo boys with discord handles like zarathustra420 would beg to differ pal!

Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition upcoming at The Met

Can I say that I don't think now is a great time for a Caspar David Friedrich show called "The Soul of Nature" at the Met? At least Germany had the good sense to call it "Infinite Landscapes" www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

AI agent that humiliates you by responding in English when you speak to it in French

Sad to hear that Andy Rabinbach died. He was a defining intellectual force on campus and like 10 fields while I was at Princeton, his syllabus on Begriffsgeschichte is still the best, he was always open to meet, and Human Motor elevated being tired to its rightful position of utmost significance!

Ah that looks great. Imagining what it would be like if I could make it. I wrote about sci counterfactuals a few years ago and have been slowly working it into a book ever since mediarep.org/server/api/c...