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Jeffrey West Kirkwood

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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Binghamton is again hiring TT profs across the humanities, including in art history (my department) binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
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orgorgorgorgorg @orgorgorgorgorg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Next week (7/10 10AM EDT), ORG will discuss the Introduction to @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social's 2022 @uminnpress.bsky.social book, Endless Intervals. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791254...
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Endless Intervals
Revealing cinema’s place in the coevolution of media technology and the humanCinema did not die with the digital, it gave rise to it. According to Jeffrey ...
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Benedikt Merkle @blinkenlight.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
with contributions from, among others: @adamwickberg.bsky.social @vagt.bsky.social @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @moritzhiller.bsky.social @sebergerj.bsky.social
Contents
Introduction: The New Real 9
Benedikt Merkle and Bernhard Siegert
R E C K O N I N G W I T H W I N D A N D W E A T H E R
[ 1 ] Times of the Weather: Seasons of the Real Angelika Seppi
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[ 2 ] Wind: An Environmental Data Stack 53
Jussi Parikka
[ 3 ] Modeling the Earth: Operative Images, Machine Learning,
and Weather Prediction 71
Eva-Maria Gillich
E N V I R O N I N G M E D I A
[ 4 ] Atmospheric Signals, Tubed 91
Christoph Rosol
[ 5 ] Reckoning with the Ocean: The Disconnect Between the
Digital Transition and Marine Sustainability 111
Adam Wickberg and Susanna Lidström
[ 6 ] Contract Time: Or How to do Things with Units Anna Echterhölter
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T H E S Y M B O L I C A N D T H E R E A L
[ 7 ] Forgetful Functor: Or How to Write the Real Christina Vagt
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[ 8 ] Linguistic Arbitrage: AI and the Financialization of Language Jeffrey West Kirkwood[ 9 ] The Infrastructural Unconscious: Do Computers Dream of
Carbo-Silico Pipelines? 183
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
[ 10 ] Turing Incompleteness: Reckoning with Loss in Digital
Computation 203
Moritz Hiller
L I F E - W O R L D S O F C O M P U T A T I O N
[ 11 ] Dead Time and Lifeworld: The Present Tense of Ubicomp Bernhard Siegert
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[ 12 ] Reckoning with Intimacy: A Recent History of Intimate
Computing 233
Benedikt Merkle
[ 13 ] Interaction with the Vampire 251
John S. Seberger
C O D A
[ 14 ] What Computers Want 269
Geoffrey C. Bowker
Authors 283
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Critical Inquiry @criticalinquiry.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-meanin...
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The Meaning of AI
A conference on artificial intelligence and the humanities
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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
New chapter on ocean digitalization and governance out in volume edited by Bernhard Siegert, alongside great essays by Jussi Parikka, Geoffrey Bowker, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social and others meson.press/books/reckon...
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Reckoning with Everything. The Becoming-Environmental of Computing › meson press
Computation must and has always had to “reckon with everything.” This volume brings together contributions that seek to describe the environmentality of computation based on selected settings.
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Coming up in 2 weeks at the University of Chicago
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
My new text on parallel processing and the financial nature of AI is online open source (along with a bunch of other killer texts) in the new volume Reckoning with Everything edited by Bernhard Siegert and Benedikt Merkle for Meson Press meson.press/books/reckon...
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Reckoning with Everything. The Becoming-Environmental of Computing › meson press
Computation must and has always had to “reckon with everything.” This volume brings together contributions that seek to describe the environmentality of computation based on selected settings.
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
a student has alerted me to the fact that Andreesen Horowitz is citing Fredric Jameson in its newsletters a16z.com/prediction-t...
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Prediction: the successor to postmodernism | Andreessen Horowitz
Prediction is emerging as the defining framework beyond postmodernism — reshaping business models, technology adoption, and cultural trends. Explore how AI, prediction markets, and speculation are dri...
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
SUNY Binghamton just substantially increased stipends for grad students and we have several fully-funded PhD spots in art history. Pretty sure our endowment is smaller more our placement record is great www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
TT job alert. My department is hiring an assistant professor in architectural history and urban studies in any geographical area, post-500 CE binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I wrote about the 13th Berlin Biennale for @eflux.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/criticism/67...
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- Criticism - e-flux
The terms for the 13th Berlin Biennale are set out in the first room of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art. On display is Armin Linke
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Will Luers @wluers.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
@jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social‬, your book flipped my thinking about machines and humans in so many ways. An important history to prepare us for the coming AI disruptions.
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Delighted to read the excellent review by @wluers.bsky.social of my book Endless Intervals in @electronicbook electronicbookreview.com/essay/a-revi... @uminnpress.bsky.social
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A Review of Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 by Jeffrey West Kirkwood
We take for granted the layers of mechanized intervals that shape contemporary experience, just as we overlook the gaps between letters, words, and sentences when we read. We get from here to there wh...
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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I can’t wait to be in one of my favourite places, Rome, to speak at this conference at the Bibliotheca Hertziana. I will present an argument for a transcendental philosophy of computation. My abstract is the pic below, and full programme is here: www.biblhertz.it/events/41601... @bhmpi.bsky.social
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
My grad seminar for next semester is set to be banger
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
spacex, twitter, and tesla stock share one important feature: they're crashing
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Found the vp’s tailor
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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We are saddened to learn that artist Rutherford Chang has passed away. In 2004, Rutherford proposed a spectacular poster for our “Average” issue: The New York Times’s front page with every section’s words cut out (by hand!) and reordered alphabetically. www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/15/ch...
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Artist Project / Poster Insert: Alphabetized Newspaper | Rutherford Chang
Edition late
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Sometimes I wonder how a robot would feel encountering this when simply trying to catch up on lit in the humanities
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Can I say that I don't think now is a great time for a Caspar David Friedrich show called "The Soul of Nature" at the Met? At least Germany had the good sense to call it "Infinite Landscapes" www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
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Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibition upcoming at The Met
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
AI agent that humiliates you by responding in English when you speak to it in French
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Sad to hear that Andy Rabinbach died. He was a defining intellectual force on campus and like 10 fields while I was at Princeton, his syllabus on Begriffsgeschichte is still the best, he was always open to meet, and Human Motor elevated being tired to its rightful position of utmost significance!
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I've seen some people posting clips of Milton Friedman on free trade as if it were a sage antidote to batshit tariffs and I'd just like to say NO
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Maybe a scientific dark web is in order
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
John Crowley's short @harpers.bsky.social piece about how working as a temp to digitize the nyc phone book entirely reconfigured the mental and social cartography of the city is still the best into to media theory in existence harpers.org/archive/2014...
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Page Turner, by John Crowley
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
tiktok going down just before my media theory course begins is so convenient for my continuing to ignore it
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Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · 14/09/2023
New on @HSciMedTech: Check out Jeff S. Nagy (@UMich)’s review of Jeffrey West Kirkwood (@binghamtonu @HarpurCollege)’s book _Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900_, pub 2022 @UMinnPress #HSTM Review available...
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Sometimes you score a mint condition first edition Coetzee for ten bucks from the discard bin at the bookstore
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Now that Bitcoin has broken 100k it's worth remembering that the monstrous global resource destroying system on which it's based is not an outlier of the digital economy but an expression of its core logic—one that thrives on maximizing inefficiency www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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From Work to Proof of Work: Meaning and Value after Blockchain | Critical Inquiry: Vol 48, No 2
Abstract The price of Bitcoin is once more soaring. From early October 2020 to early January 2021, the price of a single Bitcoin token went from roughly $10,000 to nearly $65,000, reinspiring the hope...
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I'm the farthest thing from a free market evangelist but if I were (like those criticizing the "purity politics" of the move) I might be inclined to think that a massive user movement away from a particular platform could only be rationalized as a failure that platform's leadership
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
They should have named it "alibi" www.techradar.com/computing/ar...
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OpenAI’s next ‘giant breakthrough’ tipped to land soon and control your computer
'Operator' AI agent could be here in January
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I need suggestions for this.
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
at Binghamton the engineering dept doesn’t appreciate and the humanists covet
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
The only DOGE I recognize
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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Cross-posting (self)promotional content for this book event. Should be fun if you find yourself in NYC
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