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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 2d

Has there ever been a bubble with so much reflexivity regarding its status as a bubble as this one? www.ft.com/content/6cc8...

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

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Philipp Hölzing @philipphoelzing.bsky.social · 5d

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Bernard E. Harcourt @bernardharcourt.bsky.social · 7d

Join us tonight (10/1) for the launch of Michel Foucault's 1953-54 book, newly published in English by @columbiaup.bsky.social, *Binswanger and Existential Analysis* at 7pm at @bookculture.com on 112th bet. Broadway and Amsterdam. We will discuss the early Foucault: cup.columbia.edu/book/binswan...

Binswanger and Existential Analysis | Columbia University Press

In the early 1950s, the young Michel Foucault took a keen interest in the method of existential analysis—Daseinsanalyse—developed by the Swiss psychiatri... | CUP

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Dr. Judith-Frederike Popp @judithpopp.bsky.social · 15d

Jonathan Lear has died. I had the pleasure to work with him in Chicago a couple of years ago.

We had fruitful disputes about philosophy and psychoanalysis as well as about the need to appreciate the silent presence of negativity in both.

What a devastating loss.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 15d

Cool, so what happens when they graduate and their access ends. All this is doing is turning students into a guaranteed revenue stream for the company.

Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 16d

Hard to overstate what a *huge* win this is for OpenAI in its strategy to spread its malign, brain- and planet-destroying tentacles all through the education sector. Oxford’s global standing will create a permission structure for many other schools to do likewise. “If Oxford’s doing it, then…”

Screenshot of a post University of Oxford stating that from now on all students and staff at Oxford will have free access to ChatGPT. The post claims that ChatGPT edu is “built for education with enhanced privacy and insecurity.“

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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · 17d

Or Andrew Arato. That guy does not hold back in a review. Also a constitution guy.

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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · 24d

Always interesting to see some Flusser get a run.

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 24d

“The far-right AfD, now the 2nd largest party, is attempting to revive the stigmatisation of the disabled, on the basis of the populist fantasy that they are the product of incestuous unions between immigrants. Prejudice against disabled people & racial minorities is being whipped up once more.“

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 24d

‘Prejudice against the disabled was still so widespread that in 1980 a Frankfurt court ordered the reimbursement of the cost of a hotel to a tourist who had been upset by the presence of a group of guests with cerebral palsy.’

Richard J. Evans on German eugenics: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Richard J. Evans · Alien to the Community: Eugenics in Germany

In Hitler’s mind, eugenics was part of Germany’s long-term preparation for victory in the struggle between races....

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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · 29d

See the post before my repost of your post ;)
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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · Sep 9

Job in feminist continental philosophy! uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcare...

Lecturer in Feminist Philosophy (Continental Philosophy)

School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry , Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Full-time, permanent position Base salary will be in the range $114,824 to $136,048 + 17% Superannuatio...

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Solange Manche @smanche.bsky.social · Sep 8

🌹 Hi there: I'm still looking for a job & short-term gigs 🌹

• Main research interests: financialisation studies, French philosophy/political phil, French econ history & francophone colonial hist & activism.

• Journalism: French politics & activism & long-form on French thought & culture.

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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · Sep 9

Job in feminist continental philosophy! uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcare...

Lecturer in Feminist Philosophy (Continental Philosophy)

School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry , Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Full-time, permanent position Base salary will be in the range $114,824 to $136,048 + 17% Superannuatio...

uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com

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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · Sep 2

Kinda mirrors how the Spotify founders (per Liz Pelly's book) couldn't give two shits about music but started it as an advertising grift.

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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · Aug 29

Also not coincidental that "regulation" is the shared bugbear of AI boosters and "abundance" hacks

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · Aug 15

One more month to apply!
#DigitalHumanities #JobAlert #PleaseShare

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · Jul 11

Attractive job offer at the University of Zurich:

Lecturer Teaching position in Digital Methods for the Study of Visual Cultural Data, 100%, permanent position

Please share widely!

#DigitalHumanitie #JobAlert

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UZH: Lecturer Teaching

The Art History Department (Program Directorate) in collaboration of the departments of Film Studies, Archaeology, Media and Communication, and Educational Sciences of the University of Zurich is seek...

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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · Aug 7

For sure. Surprised more boomers haven’t turned to it for material — seems like a formative Grand Tour for Brits (and Euros) of that vintage.

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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · Aug 7

Basically the origin story of Lonely Planet travel guides, which followed this to Australia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_...

Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition - Wikipedia

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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · Aug 7

New co-authored piece out today in Philosophy, Politics and Critique. It's from a special issue on 'the random' with stellar contributors - check out the whole issue, edited by Ranjan Ghosh. www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...

Active Noise Control: Cybernetics, Information Theory, and the Financialization of Randomness | Philosophy, Politics and Critique

In the second half of the twentieth century, Claude Shannon’s 1948 definition of noise as the enemy of communication became hegemonic basis of polities, economies, emergent network technologies and th...

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Jan Overwijk @jloverwijk.bsky.social · Jul 31

Truly a libidinal economy.

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Feb 19

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · Jul 29

jesus. that's depressing. glad you found one in the end.

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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · Jul 29

Trade book that rolls all the goodness and knowledge into an analysis of a deep contemporary contradiction? Easy done.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Jul 26

The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1).

Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF

Cover of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Volume 36, Number 1 (May 2025). The background is solid yellow with a horizontal beige band across the middle containing the journal title "differences" in lowercase serif letters. Below the band, the issue’s featured dossier is titled "Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality," with contributing authors listed: Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Matthew Helm, Iván A. Ramos, Jennifer C. Nash, Samantha Pinto, Lee Edelman, David Marriott, and Selamawit D. Terrefe.

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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · Jul 14

Would really love to read the stuff on Castoriadis and Tsing, Tim!

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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · Jul 14

Hm? www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Alienation | 1 | The Marx Through Lacan Vocabulary | Ben Gook, Dominie

Alienation has been used in English to describe either an estranging action or an estranged state, since the fourteenth century. It stems from the Latin

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Ben Gook @bengook.bsky.social · Jun 27

Nothing like a couple of pints of... Franzsikaner Weissbier... to feel the British spirit come roaring back.

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · Jun 14

‘Postliberalism’ is mainly books with titles like ‘The Fate of Civilisation and the Death of God at the End of the West’ by men with backgrounds as investment analysts

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