Reposted by Tyler ShoemakerRanjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 29/09/2026Starting 'The State of Digital Studies' here in Basel today with @berrydm.bsky.social talking about the Vector Paradigm. Register via contralab.online/state-of-dig... 0116
Reposted by Tyler ShoemakerJosh Scannell @frannyrecounts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's alive! I'll do a series of posts on the book soon. For now, my absolute deepest thanks to everyone who lit the way and walked with me on the 11-year trek to make this real. There is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons. @uminnpress.bsky.social @thenewschool.bsky.social 051
Reposted by Tyler ShoemakerJournal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Beneath every historical concept of technology lies a different concept of the hand, writes Rae Bruml Norton in the JHI Blog’s technology forum. When we hear claims that technology has become separate from the craft of the hand, we must ask just which "hand" is being discussed.jhiblog.orgConcepts of Hand and TechnologyRather than conceiving of humans and machines through their opposition, we must track their conceptual relationship to a third term: the hand.... 194
Reposted by Tyler ShoemakerFabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org · 24/09/2026The program for our Critical AI Studies? conference, happening Oct. 9&10 at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social, is now online: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Hope to see you there! 34519
Reposted by Tyler ShoemakerTyler Shoemaker @t-shoemaker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Next month marks the 60th anniversary of the JHU conference where Derrida delivered “Sign, Structure, and Play.” We’re taking the opportunity to revisit (and reopen?) the structuralism question with regard to AI. If you’re in the Triangle, come by! 1218
Tyler Shoemaker @t-shoemaker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Next month marks the 60th anniversary of the JHU conference where Derrida delivered “Sign, Structure, and Play.” We’re taking the opportunity to revisit (and reopen?) the structuralism question with regard to AI. If you’re in the Triangle, come by! 1218
Reposted by Tyler ShoemakerLachlan Kermode @ohrg.org · 21/09/2026Can't sleep at night for want of knowledge gardens (Zettelkasten-style) in Typst? Stay awake no longer because rookery is here: rookery.ohrg.org 232
Reposted by Tyler Shoemakermeson press @mesonpress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026🚀 Digital version is out! 🚀 BUT we do think this one 📕 is so beautiful thanks to the 💨 cover pic by Trevor Paglen @paglen.studio -> everyone should get the real thing. 📚 @zentralwerkstatt.org @uminnpress.bsky.social also Leo Impett & Johanna Drucker meson.press/books/vector... 0119
Reposted by Tyler ShoemakerMatt Handelman @mhandelman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Delighted to share my article on the Frankfurt School in conspiracy theories. Conspiratorial thinking about critical theory employs what I call "contemporary mimesis" both to imitate critical theory and blame it for the decline of the West. Out now in New German Critique. doi.org/10.1215/0094...doi.orgThe Mirror of Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School in Conspiracy Theories | New German Critique | Duke University Press 1104
Reposted by Tyler ShoemakerTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 10/09/2026Heads-up everyone in digital humanities and/or cultural AI: this is a hugely valuable resource. It does the systematic cleaning and segmentation — of a million books — that we have always wanted to have, for computational research, and have never quite produced in a way that stuck. 18028
Tyler Shoemaker @t-shoemaker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026So I guess it’s _Graphs, Maps, Trees, and Lean Proofs_ now? 032
Tyler Shoemaker @t-shoemaker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Coming to a web browser, bookshelf, or library search near you in November! 041
Reposted by Tyler ShoemakerJames E. Dobson @jeddobson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026There has been little scholarly work on the media history of the GPU. This freshly published OA article is my attempt to show the lines of influence from learning machines in the 1950s through 1980s HPC and MPP systems to the TPUs and GPUs of the present. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 53615
Reposted by Tyler ShoemakerFabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org · 23/06/2026Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social. 49642
Reposted by Tyler Shoemakerxiaochang @xiaochang.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Resurfacing online to mention: my book on the history of Speech Rec, NLP, and data-driven AI is coming out in a couple of weeks! Just got my author's copy from @uchicagopress.bsky.social and it finally feels real! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...press.uchicago.eduDivination EnginesA revealing and surprising origin story, showing how attempts to render human speech and language computable led from the era of big data to today’s AI. Since the advent of computers, society has fant... 78025
Tyler Shoemaker @t-shoemaker.bsky.social · 12/06/2026This little sentence in last month’s encyclical helped (=goaded) @leifw.bsky.social, @beenwrekt.bsky.social, and me to tie off some threads that spun out of the Cultural AI conference in March “Reify This”: www.theideasletter.org/essay/reify-...theideasletter.orgReify ThisThe authors contend that contemporary efforts to render AI systems interpretable rest on a mistake: reification, the process of treating abstractions and statistical artifacts as if they were concrete... 0143
