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Patrick McGee @signfield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New seminar series featuring five of the leading experts on the intellectual history of AI, ethics of machine learning, and critical theory of digital technology. Link below

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

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Patrick McGee @signfield.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Excited to share that my article "The Peasant's Shoes: Confronting the Historiography of Postmodernism in Archival Theory" as a part of The American Archivist's "Intergenerational Conversations." Approaches carnival rides, 'French Theory,' and the archivist's lack of will to power.

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The Peasant’s Shoes: Confronting the Historiography of Postmodernism in Archival Theory

This post is part of the Intergenerational Conversations series. Review of Carolyn Heald, “Is There Room for Archives in the Postmodern World?”American Archivist 59, no. 1 (1996): 88–101,…

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Critical Inquiry @criticalinquiry.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"Affect theory has become, Downing says, the dominant episteme of our time, which is not to the collective good." New in review, Laura Kipnis on Lisa Downing's Against Affect: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/laura_kipnis...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

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Patrick McGee @signfield.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Thanks to UBC iSchool and all of the wonderful organizers of AERI 2026 for the chance to present "Tactical Recordkeeping: Archival Perspectives on Evidence from Autonomous Weapons Systems" at this year's gathering. For slides: archivaltech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/tactical-rec...

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The NARA San Francisco office is *the* place to study histories of US immigration and western histories of all sorts. Its staff are extraordinarily valuable for researchers, historians, and citizens who visit daily to learn more about these topics. This is terrible. www.kqed.org/news/1208890...

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Exclusive: The Bay Area’s National Archives Office Is Closing. Researchers Are Worried | KQED

The Bay Area collection includes original records from landmark birthright citizenship case United States v. Wong Kim Ark, and inmate records from Alcatraz. Federal officials didn’t provide details ab...

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Patrick McGee @signfield.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A new home for my sporadic blogging. Feel free to comment at the bottom of the page! I'd love to engage with people thinking along similar lines, or merely interested in the subjects. Grauer Spiegel: Cybernetics, Reactionaries, and Modernism demonstrativesignfield.cargo.site/dispatch-1

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

the last screen humanity will ever see

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

A few years back I accidentally unearthed the first time that Marshall McLuhan coined "Understanding Media," in a 1958 letter by an advocacy group that brought him to the US on a fellowship to develop a syllabus on educational technology.

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