Royaume-Uni : South Western Railway devient la première compagnie ferroviaire renationalisée

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I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.

Thanks for sharing Roland ! I hope you'll like the layout in the French version. English versions are all available via OpenEdition : journals.openedition.org/transbordeur...

This essay is a summary of the ideas about #PlatformRealism that I've been developing on this platform over the past few years. Reading it now, many months after I wrote it, feels a little strange: I think most of the ideas are valid, but it is only now that their implications have become clear
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There is nothing crazy about this. This horrific video epitomizes the logic of current meme-fascism: it's a colonization of the imagination that precedes and aestheticizes real neo-imperialist violence, dressed up in the glossy looks of stock imagery, influencer content and online scamming
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le 25 février février à Strasbourg (et en visio) : discussion avec Guillaume Blanc-Marianne autour des utopies de la "civilisation de l'image", la politique d'Albert Plécy et les murs d'images dans les années 1960-1970 : www.culturesvisuelles.org/debats-image...

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RDV le mardi 4 mars au Jeu de Paume (Paris), pour la sortie du numéro 9 de Transbordeur que j'ai co-dirigé avec Estelle Blaschke, Christian Joschke et Antonio Somaini : "Photographies et algorithmes"
Discussion avec Nicolas Malevé et Thierry Sugitani

à tous les modérés qui nient le sens du geste de Musk : allez-y, répétez le, refaites le geste si vous pensez que ce n'est pas un salut fasciste
les fachos ne s'y trompent pas

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CHEH

"DeepSeek a déclaré n’avoir dépensé que 5,6 millions de dollars pour développer son modèle, une somme dérisoire comparée aux milliards investis par les géants américains."

www.liberation.fr/economie/eco...

Blaming AI was just a way to hype it #technodeterminism ‘“It's all about social signaling…It's not AI. … ” says Bruce Schneier, … “It's not like we had perfect elections throughout our history and now suddenly there’s AI and it's all misinformation.”
www.wired.com/story/the-ye... #philtech

here's a Sora generated video of gymnastics

«On Tuesday, a group of artists seems to have temporarily leaked access to Sora ... via Hugging Face, a popular development platform. They did this in protest of what they call ›art washing‹ and accuse OpenAI of exploiting them as PR puppets.»
OpenAI exploiting the work of artists? Quelle surprise!

For those who are in or around Strasbourg feel free to join us for the seminar "Opérations graphiques" as part of our program on visual culture, design and media studies

This evening we have a talk by Clara Mancini on Animal-Computer Interaction

www.culturesvisuelles.org/champs-de-re...

It's growing, but I am sure there are still many great media scholars and artists out there I've missed, so please let me know whom I should include. And thanks to all who already contributed with their suggestions! go.bsky.app/LmudiJF

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Tarsila ❤️

Le jeudi 12 décembre on accueille Guillaume Blanc-Marianne à l'université de Strasbourg dans le cadre du programme Cultures Visuelles et des débats-images ; pour une discussion autour de l'idéologie des "cathédrales d'images" d'Albert Plécy
toutes les info :
www.culturesvisuelles.org/debats-image...

Book about lakes, by a man called (rough equivalent of) Geeseman

this evening at the Centre Pompidou : Peter Szendy and Antonio Somaini on the image economy and digital capitalism. A talk organised as part of the exhibition "Image Capital" curated by Estelle Blaschke and Armin Linke, on view in Paris until February 26
be there 🫵