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Jane Birkin

@janeabirkin.bsky.social

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Artist and writer

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Jane Birkin @janeabirkin.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

My new essay, full access online. Will head up a special issue on the visual essay later this year www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The visual essay: thoughts on the form

This article does not attempt to set down guidelines to visual essay writing – this would be impossible due to the complexities of the form. Instead, it provides observations on some of the ways t...

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Jane Birkin @janeabirkin.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

My new article. A Vision of Air. Started off as a personal #COVID response and expnded somewhat read.dukeupress.edu/cultural-pol...

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A Vision of Air

Abstract. The invisibility of air means that it is it easy to for us to ignore. Yet in recent times it has moved from being a presence that we rarely have to think about, to becoming a fear-provoking ...

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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Leeds leading

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 30/12/2024

Did you use the Internet Archive this year to research, read, explore web archives with the Wayback Machine, or discover something new? Your support makes it possible! 👉 Like & share to spread the word. 💙 Consider donating to keep Internet Archive growing: archive.org/donate/?orig...

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Text Generation and Other Uneasy Human-Machine Collaborations — a new open access article by me: iperstoria.it/article/view...

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Text Generation and Other Uneasy Human-Machine Collaborations | Iperstoria

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

A frustrated letter from the Library of Congress asking Norbert Weiner what section of a library his book is supposed to be in (1949).

DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON, D. C.
Dec. 2, 1949
Dr. Norbert Wiener
Mass. Institute of Technology Cambridge, Nass.
My dear Dr. Wiener:
The publication of your book on Cybernetics has caused the editorial staff which is in charge of the revision of the Dewey Decimal Classification considerable difficulty. We are in the position of being asked by sincere inquirers as to how to classify the book and by less sincere people who like to confront supposedly expert classifiers with problems which they are quite certain are beyond our capabilities. Quite frankly, cybernetics is. We have read and reread reviews and explanations of the content of your book and have even tried to understand the book itself, only to become more uncertain as to what field it falls into. I am appealing to you as the one person who should be able to tell us.
Possibly you already know that the Dewey Decimal Classification attempts to assign a number to the subject content of books. Generally speaking, a book can only be assigned one number and consequently we cannot take care of the many aspects that certain works cover. The problem must be simplified and consequently, is your book such as to place it in psychology? Does it belong in the field of electronic computation devices or does it belong in mathematics?
If we were not somewhat desperate about this particular problem, I should hesitate to bother you with it.
Cordially yours,
Esther P. Potter
Director

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 04/12/2024

"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent." Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on) youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as

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Yes, it's a genocide

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Clive Scott and Nick Warr, eds. Shadows of Reality: A Catalogue of W.G. Sebald's Photographic Materials (@mitpress.bsky.social, 2023; #skystorians, #history, #photography): mitpress.mit.edu/978026254829...

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Jane Birkin @janeabirkin.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I have a few new followers, so, by way of introduction, this is my book. Nearly four years old now but it still describes my interests. For details and reviews see www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

This is a picture of my book entitled Archive, Photography and the Language of Administration, in an open box as it arrives from the publisher in early 2021

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DGBassani @dgbassani.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Librarians moving dystopian novels to the nonfiction shelves.

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a woman standing in a library with a book titled room on the shelf

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Jane Birkin @janeabirkin.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

Great working with Sunil Manghani on this quirky piece: ‘From Dürer’s Rhinoceros to AI Image Diffusion Models’, co-author piece with @JaneABirkin, available OPEN ACCESS: #Holotipus, journal of zoology, systematics and taxonomy | holotipus.it/archive/

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Jane Birkin @janeabirkin.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

My new piece in Journal of Art Practice special issue www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... I co-edited the issue with Sunil Manghani - our intro here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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