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Sebastian Gießmann

@sebgiessmann.bsky.social
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Media History | Theory | STS @Siegen Media & Culture @unicologne.bsky.social Das Kreditkarten-Buch: Geschichte und Theorie des digitalen Bezahlens 👉️ www.kulturverlag-kadmos.de/programm…

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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#anthropicstudies
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Conference poster, Histories of Tracking, Luxembourg and Siegen
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@nescioquid.bsky.social will start day 1 of Histories of Tracking with a keynote on ‘Metadata and the “Cryptographic Revolution,” from the Order of Battle to the War on Terror‘.
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🐄 Just a quick note ... We are so excited about the HISTORIES OF TRACKING conference, which is starting today at Université de Luxembourg! Here's an updated programme 👉 www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even... #mediastudies #history #STS #surveillance #mediaofcoop @c2dh.uni.lu @valeriesch.bsky.social
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Histories of Tracking
Surveillance has become ubiquitous in digital media environments and is now taken for granted. With every PayPal interaction, at the least more than 600
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anthropic's IPO seems to be happening after the Midterms. If agents permit and humanity survives until then ... The numbers on this are staggering. A valuation of $2 trillion would make this to big to fail. Could we pace this frontier? www.reuters.com/business/fin... #anthropicstudies #AI #openAI
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EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows sweeping AI vision, surging costs
Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will ​transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters. The ...
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Klingt nach einem Geniestreich, wenn ich mich fragt ...
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Captain it’s Wednesday @wednesday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Captain it's Wednesday
Captain it's Wednesday
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ECREA Media, Cities and Space Section @mediacity-ecrea.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Amazing news: don't miss this special dossier on urban AI!
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Noch bis zum Sonntag an der Frankfurter Schirn: Tim Otto Roths „Vocal Revolutions“. Not to be missed! Für das Foto gilt: The Artist is present. Und die etwas geschrumpfte Ausstellung „The World Through AI“ lohnt sich auch.
Vocal Revolutions, Klangskulptur von Tim Otto Roth, Schirn Frankfurt, September 2026
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It is a critical answer to Anthropic's Constitution for #Claude. Mustafa Suleyman's text on the subject is well worth a read. And this all adds to the current AI #governance & #alignment controversy ... 👉️ mustafa-suleyman.ai/a-warning-ab... /2 #anthropicstudies
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A warning about ‘model welfare’
AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. Training a model to believe it might be a moral patient, as Anthropic’s constitution does, makes the alignment and containment challenge...
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Even if I could put 24 hours of my day into research on current #AI developments, I would hardly be fast and comprehensive enough. Here's a new and (un-)expected twist: Microsoft's new frontier AI lab has come up with a Code of Conduct for its project of "Humanist AI". /1
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
„Text, in this context, is really .txt, …“ Do not miss Matt Kirschenbaum‘s latest take on AI‘s textpocalypse!
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Any news on the conference programme?
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yes. And hard to navigate! My talk will be on October 8, in the afternoon. Here's a sneak peak: netzeundnetzwerke.de/theorizing-b... #4S2026 #4S26 #4S50
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Theorizing Biometrics, Identification and Digital Payment – netzeundnetzwerke.de
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Eine sehr klare Analyse, lesenswert.
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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Today on Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities we present a long-forgotten graphic method: the Haeckel-inspired organic diagrams created by the Russian-German sociologist Paul von Lilienfeld to visualize social complexity. Read the full story here: attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/a-graphic-...
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Das ist eine sehr gute, differenziert argumentierende Petition, die ich gerne unterschrieben habe. Und das solltet Ihr auch tun!
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We need to get rid of AI-written papers completely! It has no place in academic writing unless used for stylistic and grammatic assistance (if needed). Btw, I just spent a day correcting a DeepL translation of a text of mine. It seemed fine at first glance, but meagre once you do a real walkthrough.
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I‘ll be there!
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Auf jeden Fall empfehlenswert, praxeologisch reizvoll und noch frisch ist Ulrich Johannes Schneiders Buch zur Mündlichkeit von #Foucault. 👉 www.turia.at/titel/uschne... /3
Buchcover Ulrich Johannes Schneider: Foucault im Hörsaal
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It seems like #Anthropic is going #precrime, pre-IPO. We knew about the company's internal security paranoia, but this feels like a whole new level of cyberpunk megacorp bullshit.
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Guardians vs. Investors! This preprint is really interesting if you're interested in #AI, values, alignment, and business practice. Also required reading for #anthropicstudies.
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
💳 Starting very soon -- we'll talk about The Credit Card Book at the @cais-research.bsky.social colloquium in a bit! 📚 #digipay #creditcard #booksky
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I am doing a "Foucault 100" graduate seminar this winter term (German nomenklatura). And it is surprisingly hard to decide what to read of #Foucault in 2026. You cannot take prior knowledge for granted any longer.
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Auffälligerweise gibt es keinen aktuellen Reader (oder)? Immerhin aber Philipp Sarasins Einführung und einiges Biografisches (Deleuze, Veyne, Eribon). Zudem: Ist Foucault-Kommentar Männersache? Als beste Leserin fällt mir spontan Petra Gehring ein. Könnte ein langer 🧵 werden! /2
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Wie macht man im Jahr 2026 ein Seminar über, mit, zu Michel #Foucault ? Vermutlich sollte ich die Überlegungen dazu dokumentieren, denn aus einer solchen Überfülle großartiger Texte auszuwählen, ist eine Herausforderung. /1
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Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf @hhu.de · 21/05/2026
Neuer Studiengang: Digital Cultures Selfies, Daten, Avatare – digitale Praktiken und Phänomene prägen, wer wir sind. Memes, virtuelle Welten und Algorithmen haben die Gesellschaft schon verändert und werden es weiter tun. 1/4
Jemand hält ein Handy in beiden Händen und öffnet eine Social Media App
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Captain it’s Wednesday @wednesday.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Captain it's Wednesday
Captain it's Wednesday
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I just love Bluesky‘s quiet posters feed! It is full of human-written gems, actually.
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Cover of the year 2026!
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This cover is a strong candidate for a "cover of the year" in 2026.
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Finally registered for 4S in Toronto this October. Really looking forward to the 50 year anniversary of @4sweb.bsky.social ! The hashtag might be #4S26 #4S2026 or #4S50, right? But hashtags aren't a thing these days anyway. However, I look forward to seeing you at Lake Ontario!
Logo 4S Toronto Technopower
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Starker Text, vielen Dank dafür!
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Good to see Phil Agre's Computation and Human Experience here!
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Center for Advanced Internet Studies @cais-research.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
💳 What can a credit card tell us about our digital present? On 9 September, we’re delighted to welcome former CAIS Fellow Sebastian Gießmann back to CAIS to talk about his book "The Credit Card Book" 📅 4:00–5:00 PM | At CAIS & online cais-research.de/en/event/boo... @sebgiessmann.bsky.social
Das Buch mit dem Titel „Das Kreditkarten-Buch: Geschichte und Theorie des digitalen Bezahlens“ von Sebastian Giessmann steht auf einem Handlauf im Treppenhaus am CAIS.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 22/08/2026
🤖 Long before PCs were commonplace, software like ELIZA & Little Computer People used clever programming to create the illusion of machines that could think, talk & act on their own. Examples? Explore the new Vintage Artificial Intelligence collection! blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/v... 🧵
Screenshot of a grid of items from the Internet Archive's Vintage Artificial Intelligence collection, showing eighteen software title thumbnails including Eliza C64, Pisko, Hidden Agenda, SimLife, Robotwar, Abuse, Eliza 3.1, A Mind Forever Voyaging, A.I., Alter Ego, Worms, Talking Sam, The Dream Machine, Law of the West, Racter, and 64luff, each with view, favorite, and comment counts.
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I loved the 2016 edition, and now there's a new one! #networks #newyork #infrastructure
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Now this is funny! #anthropic studies #claude
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
My rewatch had some "oh, but this is overly glossy 80/90s aesthetics" moments of estrangement attached to it. Still loved it though!
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
💳️ Von wegen Sommerloch, das gibt es beim digitalen Bezahlen wohl nicht … Gerade ist im Spektrum der Wissenschaft eine schöne Rezension meines Buches von Michaela Sonntag erschienen. 📚️ ➡️ www.spektrum.de/rezension/buchkriti… #digipay #kreditkarte #booksky
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Sehr schön, das kommt auf die Lektüreliste für mein Siegener "Foucault 100"-Seminar. Und #OpenAccess ist auch super!
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Bücher, die mit mit dem Untertitel "Westdeutsche Leser:innen erzählen" aufwarten, sind ja nun auch eher grenzwertig.
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“And so the billboards symbolize the fait accompli that Silicon Valley presents us with today: systemic relevance as an all-or-nothing bet.“
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
💳 Hier kommt die Kritik zum Kreditkarten-Buch von Christian Schüle zum Nachhören. Über so eine positive Resonanz kann man sich als Autor nur freuen! www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/buchkr… #digipay #kreditkarte #booksky
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Heute lohnt es sich besonders, um 11.05 Uhr die „Lesart“ im Deutschlandfunk Kultur einzuschalten … www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/lesart… #digipay #kreditkarte #booksky
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Für mich schon jetzt das Buch des Jahres: Stephan Thomes zweiter #Grenzgang wartet mit erzählerischer Präzision und zugleich erstaunlich warmherzigen Humor auf. Und der Titel des Buches ist schlicht genial. ➡️ www.suhrkamp.de/buch/stephan-thome-… #booksky
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Really looking forward to this book talk @cais-research.bsky.social! Without a #CAIS fellowship the credit card book would hardly be what it is now. All welcome! #digipay #booksky
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Lustig!
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Here's to The #Odyssey film we could have had: Emily #Wilson's much anticipated London Review of Books critique of Christopher #Nolan is just fantastic! Nolan's film is alright, but never achieves the grandeur of his other classic movies. It isn't quite Homer either. 👉 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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