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Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 14h

I had a great couple of days at the #SHOT2025 conference in Luxembourg. Our panel went really well and I enjoyed presenting my work there. I thank @iiil.li for inviting me and the SHOT/EDITH Special Interest Group for supporting me with a travel grant. I hope to see you all next year

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Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 2d

Happy to report from Esch, Luxembourg where I’m participating in the 2025 Annual Conference of the Society of History of Technology (SHOT). Great presentations and dialogues going on. I’m presenting tomorrow morning. Excited.

#SHOT2025 #HistoryofTechnology #MediaStudies #Chile #Cybernetics

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Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 3d

Paso relámpago por las tierras de #Marx

This picture shows a train station sing that reads “Trier Hbf” – meaning, Trier Central Station

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 17d

I am very proud of the beautiful new website that @larspinkwart.com has designed and built for @digitalculturesandarts.ch – there'll be more information added in the coming weeks, but please check it out! digitalculturesandarts.ch

digital cultures and arts

Activites of the DIZH bridge professorship Digital Cultures and Arts between University of Zurich and Zurich University of the Arts.

digitalculturesandarts.ch

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Raphael Arar @rarar.com · 18d

Dyer-Witheford & Mularoni adapt Marx's circuit of capital for big tech, stressing that big tech circulates rather than produces—an important reframe of platform power www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/d... cc @versobooks.bsky.social

Diagrams of Cybernetic Circulation

Our book Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis examines the U.S. tech sector through the Marxist concept of “circulation.” We focus on the major U.S. tech oligopolies—the origi...

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Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 27d

My paper on Stafford Beer’s “Cybernetic Model of Contemporary Capitalism,” which was presented at the #POM 2024 conference, has finally been published.

If you’re interested in #cybernetics, #Marxism, #diagrams, and #art-research, you may want to check it out:

www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

Techno-Diagrammatics: An Experimental Inquiry into Cybernetic Modes of Organisation? (The case of 1970s Chile)

<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d17691545e56">This article introduces a method of art research called techno-diagrammatics through the...

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Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 27d

More or less. A kind of afterword or postscript to it

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Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · 27d

My paper on Stafford Beer’s “Cybernetic Model of Contemporary Capitalism,” which was presented at the #POM 2024 conference, has finally been published.

If you’re interested in #cybernetics, #Marxism, #diagrams, and #art-research, you may want to check it out:

www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

Techno-Diagrammatics: An Experimental Inquiry into Cybernetic Modes of Organisation? (The case of 1970s Chile)

<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d17691545e56">This article introduces a method of art research called techno-diagrammatics through the...

www.scienceopen.com

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Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social · Sep 11

Bride of Frankenstein [film|minutes] — Out now in print, open-access ebook, and special videographic/interactive editions!

My book on James Whale's 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein, the inaugural volume in Lever Press's new film|minutes book series, is out now! The book offers a…

Bride of Frankenstein [film|minutes] — Out now in print, open-access ebook, and special videographic/interactive editions!

My book on James Whale's 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein, the inaugural volume in Lever Press's new film|minutes book series, is out now! The book offers a minute-by-minute engagement with the film, combining close looking, philosophical speculation, historical contextualization, and a variety of other ekphrastic and experimental approaches. Print versions are available anywhere books are sold, including on the…

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Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · Sep 5

I finally got a hard copy of this rare report – the state of telegraphy (and telex networks) in Chile by 1970. A key document to understand infrastructural undertakings that unfolded right after that

#Chile #Telecommunications #Technology #History

The cover of “La Telegrafía en Chile,” by Lothar Diehl. A report from Chile’s Post and Telegraphy Department on the state of telecommunications infrastructure and technology in the country by 1970

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Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · Aug 26

ja (chilenismo berlinisado)

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Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social · Jul 16

Part of an ongoing conversation between @mbfazi.bsky.social and me on AI/LLMs as "synthetic media" -- more to come!

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Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · Aug 25

How did bologna come to be pronounced that way? That requires an explanation! — because, lasagna?

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Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) @hptsociety.bsky.social · Aug 25

André Leroi-Gourhan was a pioneering French archaeologist, anthropologist, and philosopher whose work deeply influenced French philosophy of technology through his studies of human evolution, tools, and culture.
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Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · Aug 20

Por lo mismo. Me pregunto si acaso esa ceguera está más cerca del antojo, del capricho, del deseo, que de la imaginación

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Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · Aug 19

Antojo? Capricho?

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Camp @campfireharve.st · Jul 11

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

Header text: "HEY YOU! YES YOU! TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF LINKS!"

This is followed by a couple example urls, with a red square highlighting the sections with source identifiers. The rest of the text is as follows:

Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site. Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to. Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity.

When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected. And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers.

Whenever you select "share" or "copy link" on a social app or website, it creates a link like this. If you give even the smallest shit about online privacy, it's important to remove them. Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue, especially sections starting with "si=" or "utm_source="

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Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · Aug 6

Lauren Sonder at Bardo Projektraum #Berlin

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Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) @hptsociety.bsky.social · Aug 5

Today we commemorate the passing of Bernard Stiegler, one of the most original voices in contemporary philosophy of technology.
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Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · Jul 28

Tipo “… cuando busquen el descanso, piensen en el mañana duro que tendremos por delante, cuando tengamos que poner más pasión, más cariño, para hacer cada vez más grande a Chile, y cada vez más justa la vida en nuestra patria”?

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Revista Jacobin @jacobinlat.bsky.social · Jul 20

En su vida doméstica, como en la interacción con sus amigos e incluso con quienes eran simples conocidos, creo que se puede decir que la principal característica de Karl Marx era su buen humor desatado y su simpatía ilimitada.
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Algunos recuerdos del Moro, por Eleanor Marx - Jacobin Revista

La militante socialista Eleanor Marx nació un día como hoy en 1855. En este texto de 1895, anota algunos recuerdos de su padre, «un amigo ideal».

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Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · Jul 17

Reading it right now

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Leonhard Dobusch @leonido.bsky.social · Jun 23

Noch nie habe ich das von Piketty beschriebene Problem r > g anschaulicher erklärt gesehen als in diesem Video von Gary Stevenson:

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Diego Gómez-Venegas @digomezvenegas.bsky.social · Jul 14

Es bien injusto este post, creo. Lo es porque asume un montón de cosas sobre chilenos q estudian fuera, sólo para hacer un punto contra alguien en particular. La realidad de becarios –tan manoseada en Chile– es tan compleja y diversa q cubre privilegios, de un lado, como pobreza migrante, del otro.

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · Jul 11

30 years ago, over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were murdered in the Srebrenica genocide.

Today, politicians will say "never again". But they are letting it happen, again, in Gaza.

We remember all victims of genocide, and vow to build a world that respects the humanity of all.

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