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Deep Culture

@d-eepculture.bsky.social
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Research project interested in the relations between deep-learning technologies and cultures. We study the global transformations that deep learning has wrought on culture and how culture is in turn key to deep learning. deep-culture.org

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Deep Culture @d-eepculture.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Rich Sutton warned that computational scale ultimately outperforms human expertise. Does his "bitter lesson" hold true when reproducing our own custom methods with LLMs? We find: the bitter lesson is sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter, and sometimes inapplicable. deep-culture.org/the-occasion...
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The Occasional Bitter Lesson: AI Engineering and Expert Knowledge in the Digital Humanities • Deep Culture
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Deep Culture @d-eepculture.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Two weeks ago we hosted a "Deep Learning and Culture" track at the STS NL Conference at the University of Twente. Read a recap of the event here: deep-culture.org/deep-culture...
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Deep Culture at STS NL 2026: Exploring the Entanglements of Deep Learning and Culture • Deep Culture
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Deep Culture @d-eepculture.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
What’s the difference between latent space, vector space, feature space, and embedding space? @louravn.bsky.social spelled it out for you in this short blog post deep-culture.org/whats-the-di...
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What’s the difference between latent space, vector space, feature space, and embedding space? • Deep Culture
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Deep Culture @d-eepculture.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
We are excited to report that we have started developing our first *Little Tools of Difference*. While deep learning has been driven by a culture of uniformity, we asked: What if we used these same state-of-the-art architectures to do the opposite? More prototypes are coming soon, so stay tuned!
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Sal Hagen @hetsalwel.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
How to move along with the audiovisual, vibey, and AI-infused feeds of today's platforms? In this new article with @ddzeeuw.bsky.social and Tommaso Venturini, we theorize 'digital rhythmanalysis' as a potential new quali-quantitative approach to measure and 'feel' rhythms online: bit.ly/pns-dra
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Deep Culture @d-eepculture.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Our research was covered by the Dutch public broadcaster NOS:
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Chloe Papadopoulou @diafanokrino.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Keywords are not neutral. With Tobias Blanke, we investigate the power of keywords as interpretive tools in our work "Keywords in Digital Humanities: A critical assessment of computational techniques for mapping security and freedom in historical debates". You can read the article now on DHQ!
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DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Keywords in Digital Humanities – A critical assessment of computational techniques for mapping security and freedom in histor...
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Louis Ravn @louravn.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Super fun to contribute to this brief interview with Terminally Online, a student-led organization on New Media at the University of Amsterdam. We spoke about my wonderful team‘s research (@d-eepculture.bsky.social), who inspires me, and some of my own work. 🔗: www.linkedin.com/pulse/interv...
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Interview with Louis Ravn
Louis Ravn is a PhD Candidate on Deep Culture at the University of Amsterdam, working in the fields of science and technology studies and critical data/AI studies. Moreover, he is assistant editor for...
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Deep Culture @d-eepculture.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
"What is digital about abstraction?" - new chapter by @riederb.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2508.18181
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What is digital about abstraction?
This chapter examines abstraction as a central principle of computing, not merely as a cognitive skill or epistemological category, but as a material and organizational practice that structures how so...
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Dieuwertje Luitse @dluitse.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
🚨The Critical AI Seminar Series returns in 2025/2026 ✨ This year we will have four talks and are beyond excited to welcome @amoorelouise.bsky.social & @alexcampolo.bsky.social, Fabian Offert, Helene Ratner & @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @thaophan.bsky.social ✨ Sign up: bit.ly/uvacriticala...
Critical AI seminar series 

Register via https://bit.ly/uvacriticalai2526

Program and Invited Speakers: 

Upcoming seminars  

November 12, 5-6:30 PM (CEST): Invited talk by Louise Amoore and Alexander Campolo, ‘On reading machine learning‘

January 13, 5:30-7 PM (CEST): Invited talk by Fabian Offert on 
‘Vector Media‘

March 18, 3-4:30 (CEST): Invited talk by Helene Ratner and Nanna Thylstrup on ‘Ecologies of evaluation’

May 20, 12-1:30 PM (CEST): Invited talk by Thao Phan on ‘Testing-in-the-wild’
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