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The Unexplained Surprise — Information at the Edge of Knowledge
An error correction seminar. Universität Basel, 2 October 2026.
![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
33
[ 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
127
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
147
[ 8 ] Linguistic Arbitrage: AI and the Financialization of Language Jeffrey West Kirkwood](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:slvghcu3ve7kxtey5uigrjdq/bafkreifgwe6r2gi5z4kwcqkiia7ryhatr2jbaqoteuk7htedpneyvkg7ui)
![[ 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
217
[ 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](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:slvghcu3ve7kxtey5uigrjdq/bafkreic6u27ugxivvy2iu2pxdwxbolawzbh53xumibvtph3uuochkzs3au)
