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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan

@bernarddionysius.bsky.social
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teacher, writer, curator media, cybernetics, HCI, environmental humanities, digital images, AI

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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
“Model collapse”: the human centipede, when it gets long enough to eat its own tail
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Grey Room invites you to a free, hour-long webinar on infrastructure as a site of political sovereignty and media-technical force, Tuesday, April 21st, 10:00 (PT) / 13:00 (ET) / 19:00 (CET) feat. Lisa Parks, Erhard Schüttpelz, Julia Velkova and Rosalind Morris. Signup at bit.ly/GreyRoomInfr...
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Just published open access, a playful exercise I developed and ran with students: "The Cringe Test: student evaluations of intelligence with LLMs in a Turing Test adapted for classroom use" www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...
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Frontiers | GIFT-AI: The Cringe Test: student evaluations of intelligence with LLMs in a Turing Test adapted for classroom use
This article presents “The Cringe Test,” a classroom adaptation of the Turing Test (or imitation game) that stages dialogue with large language models (LLMs)...
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
My kid’s school ensuring none of its students become humanities PhDs
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
There may be an English translation forthcoming from Yale press? I remember hearing it had been planned into the publication schedule early on in the German production. I’m not sure though.
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I read Siegert’s book on these and am putting together a roundtable review for a journal. Reach out if anyone’s interested!
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
A student asked GPT if its summaries of a class text were distorted. It replied “If distortion is inevitable in communication, then maybe my “blurriness” isn’t just a flaw—it’s a mirror held up to how humans process and reshape information every day.”
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Now in Portuguese translation, and open access, an essay Francesco Casetti and I wrote on "Screens": periodicoscientificos.ufmt.br/territoriose...
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Tela | Revista Territórios e Fronteiras
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes." --Theodor Adorno
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
why do I have to acknowledge if I used an LLM in preparing the text but my colleagues don't have to note when their spouses and research assistants helped with research and writing ?
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
And, likewise, mechanic, automated, inhuman, derivative.
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 26/07/2025
The concept of "slop" is going to fit neatly into the space that "mass culture" occupied in 20c theory. It expresses a fear that culture has become liquid, abject, homogenous, replicating and spreading itself like a slime mold.
Andy Warhol Campbell's soup can sticker sheet, MoMA design store
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
When I try to make sense of the kind of language produced by large language models (LLMs) I think of Saussure's passing remark that language is a "a machine that will always run no matter the damages that may be inflicted upon it."
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 10/07/2025
Love this review, and glad to see it also bring in @bernarddionysius.bsky.social, whose _Code_ deeply shaped my thinking about the history of cultural theory. If you put these two books together, I think it makes a very coherent story about where theory came from and why we need it right now.
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I love this thread. In a similar vein, Hans-Georg Gadamer: "When you take a word in your mouth you must realize that you have not taken a tool that can be thrown aside if it will not do the job, but you are fixed in a direction of thought that comes from afar and stretches beyond you."
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Thanks for this generous reading, Robin!
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robin manley @robinmanley.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
My review of the excellent Code: From Information Theory to French Theory by @bernarddionysius.bsky.social is out now in the new and very exciting @histsocialscience.bsky.social! Available open access here~~ muse.jhu.edu/article/952248
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Project MUSE - Code: From Information Theory to French Theory by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan (review)
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Kevin A. Bryan @afinetheorem.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The new OpenAI model announced today is quite wild. It is essentially Google's Deep Research idea with multistep reasoning, web search, *and* the o3 model underneath (as far as I know). It sometimes takes a half hour to answer. Let me show you an example. 1/x
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
is this genre theory? I think it might be!
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Bronislaw Szerszynski @szerszynski.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
A while back I did a performance of my 'Drift as a planetary phenomenon' for the excellent Panel on Planetary Thinking at the University of Gießen (www.uni-giessen.de/en/faculties...). They've now released the video (40 mins). www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YWo...
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Planetary Lecture Series #3 "Drift as a Planetary Phenomenon"
YouTube video by Panel on Planetary Thinking
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I was filling out a social security form in Swedish. I had to check one of two boxes. Google Translate renders the two options as (a) I am a decent (b) I am a cretin
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I haven't gotten much out of this website. Is there something I should do to make it more interesting?
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I like this line by Bob Dylan from the Rolling Thunder Revue movie: “When somebody’s wearing a mask, he’s gonna tell you the truth. When he’s not wearing a mask, it’s highly unlikely.”
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
‘I’ is a linguistic convention to facilitate communication and should not be interpreted as a sign of self-awareness or consciousness. --ChatGPT
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
spilling bong water on the rug is definitely a violation of the entire system of binaries that make dorm life with a roommate barely manageable
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
the structuralism? yeah, it's def a gateway theory
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
A structuralist analysis of the bong, as differential ordering of the binaries fire and water, earth and air—and the functional role of the universal taboo on drinking the bong water.
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
thanks!
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I'll try to put them out as part of a short book next year!
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
wrote and recorded some new lectures on LLMs
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Oh, I just mean that they're not overly confident that it can do much heavy lifting. They use it a lot, but seem to have a pretty good sense of its limits, shortcomings, why it's not really intelligent, and so on.
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
It's been a long time since I read it, but maybe something in Mitchell's "The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era"?
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The best concert I've seen in the last 20 or so years was KRS-One in Berlin, around 2014 or 2015, in a small club in Berlin. His charisma, elegance, poise, power, rhythm, timing, musical sensibility was off the charts -- like James Brown at the Apollo. If you get a chance, go see him.
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Foucault v Twitter: those who have found a new tone, a new way of looking, a new way of doing, will never feel the need to lament that the world is error, that history is filled with people of no consequence, and that it is time for others to keep quiet so the sound of their disapproval may be heard
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
one of the best books in media studies this year! a tour de force in blue humanities
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I can’t find Beatrice Fazi on here yet, but until she gets here, her pretty dazzling new paper on synthesis in #generativeAI www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
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The Computational Search for Unity: Synthesis in Generative AI - published on November 9, 2024
The outputs of generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) are often called “synthetic” to imply that they are not natural but artificial. Against that use of the term, this article focuses on ...
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hubert Dreyfus on what Heidegger suggested as an alternative to life in the thrall of modern technology: "Heidegger holds that we must learn to appreciate...practices such as friendship, backpacking into the wilderness, and drinking the local wine with friends." #EcoHeidegger #CrunchyBeing
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Proud to have slipped a "Weekend at Bernie's" reference into my essay on AI. Criticism would benefit from fewer invocations of puppets, marionettes, and epiphenomena, to allow for more lively shootouts to great comedic corpses.
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
"Criticism that hands down sentences sends me to sleep." --Michel Foucault
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Hannes Bajohr @hannesbajohr.de · 14/11/2024
Hier kann man die Einleitung zum von Moritz Hiller und mir herausgegebenen Sonderband von Text+Kritik mit dem Titel "Das Subjekt des Schreibens: Über Große Sprachmodelle" lesen: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Das Subjekt des Schreibens. Einleitung
PDF | Introduction to the special issue on "Das Subjekt des Schreibens. Über Große Sprachmodelle" | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Twitter is like the USA, Bluesky is like Sweden
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
yes, I can share them privately, if you're interested. warning, the titles are better than the content 🤣
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
actual lectures! they're also notes for a short book, that will probably read like a "hot take"
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
recorded some lectures on LLMs and the encounter of limits
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Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Related: I had a frank discussion with some students recently. What struck me was their broad consensus that AI didn't help them understand or learn. They felt it was really hard work to learn w/ AI. They use it, constantly, either a) critically, or b) for things they don't care to understand
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