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On the value of the #humanities: "Humanist inquiry of the sort we pursue, with its situated knowledges and its cultural attunements and its fine-grained attentiveness to the shifting complexity of ethical and moral life, can give restorative heft to even the most tarnished of these ideals. You might need them." -- Peter Coviello, head of the #English department at Univesity of Illinois Chicago Circle
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Announcing the latest title in Open Humanities Press's MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series:
Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence by Gary Hall.
Available open access - to be downloaded for free:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/
If we want a socially and environmentally just future, do we need a radical new theory of change – or to radically change theory? Unsettling received ideas of the author and the book, originality and copyright, real and artificial intelligence, Masked Media tests ‘non-modernist-liberal’ modes of creating and sharing knowledge enabled by media technologies, from writing through to GenAI. Thinking outside the black box that renders Euro-Western knowledge-making practices invisible – keeping the human ontologically separate from the nonhuman – it shows there’s no such thing as the human, the nonhuman already being in(the)human.
#newmedia #academicpublishing #experimentalwriting #humanities
#philosophy #ai #openai #genai
Zum Thema "I have a minor comment" in der #academia / #humanities / #digitalhumanities kommt irgendwann im Laufe des Jahres auch noch eine Polemik von @vmmmh und mir.
Call for Papers: Workshop "Critical Theory of the Computational" (Berlin, October 16-17, 2025)
This workshop aims to use critical theories to explore how digital and computational systems are influencing societal changes and how these systems are also part of broader global transformations.
Submit your abstract by April 30, 2025
More: https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/call-for-papers-critical-theory-of-the-computational/
Weizenbaum InstitutCall for Papers: Critical Theory of the ComputationalThis international workshop will take place at the Weizenbaum Institute on October 16-17, 2025. It uses critical theories to explore how digital and computational systems are influencing societal changes and how these systems are also part of broader global transformations. The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2025.
Hcommons.social is a Hometown Mastodon server for humanities scholars and practitioners around the world:
This server has additional features including much longer post lengths and local server-only post visibility options.
You can find out more about hcommons.social at https://hcommons.social/about or contact the admin @hello
Hometown hosted on hcommons.socialhcommons.socialhcommons.social is a microblogging network supporting scholars and practitioners across the humanities and around the world.
Our university is now a subscribing member of White Horse Press, a family-run academic publisher specializing in #environmental #humanities & #SocialSciences! 
Read more: https://www.rug.nl/library/news/250226-white-horse-press
Discover other #diamond #OpenAccess initiatives we support: https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/diamond-open-access-at-the-ug/open-access-initiatives/
University of Groningen · UG sponsors S2O initiative White Horse PressAs of 2025, the UG became a subscribing member of White Horse Press (WHP), an independent, family-run academic publisher specialising in environmental...
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So schools with #arts & #humanities programs trying to promote themselves & make the case for inclusion, can't just try & prove their career relevance. They're also fighting this idea that there's no room for creativity, empathy, insight & other "right-brained" modalities in a world of logic, innovation, productivity & hard #science.
When I look at the world today - even as a technologist - I question the outcome of an even harder shift toward #STEM to the exclusion of all else.
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Just moved to Fosstodon! #introduction
Dad and husband in #Pennsylvania. I teach #biochemistry, #molecularbiology, and #microbiology (and #humanities) in #highered.
Daily #Emacs user since the late 80s, #GNU #Linux on and off since the 90s. Strictly #FreeSoftware since 2010s. #Debian, #GrapheneOS, #OrgMode and #Emacs for teaching and research.
#Japanese #日本語, #francais, y #espanol roto. #DnD and #books. Love #camping #hiking #walking #cycling #coding #elisp
Just listened to the Common Descent podcast's current episode on the palaeontologist Edward Drinker Cope. And I wonder: scholars and scientists, who is the worst person in your speciality that you regularly have to cite?
In my case it's numismatist Ian Wiséhn (1950-2020), because he has 350 pieces of work in our main bibliographical database while also stealing massively from the Royal Coin Cabinet during his 14 years as its director.
https://commondescentpodcast.com/2025/02/15/episode-211-edward-drinker-cope/
The Common Descent Podcast · Episode 211 – Edward Drinker CopeListen to Episode 211 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts! He’s one of the most famous names in early American paleontology, and often not for good …
This is the DiTraRe Leibniz Science Campus on "Digital Transformation of Research" tooting.
Research results are increasingly being shaped by digitalization processes. At the Leibniz ScienceCampus "Digital Transformation of Research", we are investigating the effects and potential of the increasing digitalization of scientific work in four interdisciplinary research clusters.
#Introduction #AI #AIethics #AIact #generativeAI #research #science #humanities @fiz_karlsruhe @fizise @AnnaJacyszyn
Replied to Jürgen Hubert
@juergen_hubert You can relax. A major movement in the #Humanities argued for half a century that Truth and Facts were meaningless.
en.wikipedia.orgPostmodern philosophy - Wikipedia
I'm still sussing out what the field of Plant Humanities *is*, but as someone who works in plant science but in an interdisciplinary way, I'm interested in finding out.
"Plant Lives - Critical Plant Humanities - Conversations from the Global South
Monday, 2 June 2025 - 12:00pm
WiSER is proud to announce a new online seminar series
The seminar series will run on Mondays from 4-5pm SAST. Papers will be sent a week beforehand. "
https://wiser.wits.ac.za/event/plant-lives-critical-plant-humanities-conversations-global-south
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Important books on teaching!
Needed now on why #humanities matters!
Looking at how #LLM are promoted by their fans, I've come to the conclusion:
Pretty much everyone from a #STEM background - myself definitely included! - owes the #Humanities a huge apology.
I mean, I get it. When I was a young student of physics, it was easy for me to sneer at philosophy students and whatnot. After all, _we_ dealt with hard, measurable facts, while _those_ people dealt with some weird thought constructs that had no relevancy to the real world - right?
But this is the end result - #TechBro culture and a vast portion of our entire economy using digital bullshit generators instead of critical thinking, and using this to lead us into a fascist future where either Truth or Facts have become meaningless.
Mea culpa.
I posted some thoughts on updating my research notebook software. If anyone is doing #humanities or #digitalhumanities research, or is in the market for a #markdown notebook, I would love to hear your thoughts on what I should focus on.
orsn.io4th March 2025 | OrsonOpen Research Notebook
Hi everybody! We've been inactive for a while, so it's maybe time for a reintroduction. HUP is a fully #openaccess university press. We publish high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly literature, particularly in the #humanities and #socialsciences. All our publications are freely available on our website at: https://hup.fi/site/
We are looking forward to learning more about the #Fediverse!
Ironic that, while destroying American science, Trump is making a strong argument that studying science is less important than studying the humanities
A fediverse welcome to our colleagues at the Faculty of #Arts at the @universityofgroningen #groningen !
Follow them at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social (Bluesky bridge) and @facultyofartsgroningen (Pixelfed) for cutting edge research and teaching in the arts and #humanities!
Hey #museum & #fieldwork #research peeps, I'd like to hear your views. This is confusing.
You're a productive researcher in country A, working on collections and sites there. You apply for a job in country Z. They ask for a detailed research plan with your application. Everyone knows that you haven't written much on country Z -- yet.
Are we actually expected to spend a week reading & writing about country Z for a dummy research plan, just to have a chance for that job?
Tickets are now live for 'Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism'
It takes place on the afternoons of April 10/11. In-person attendance in Cambridge and online. Speakers and registration details in the following link:
https://radicaloa.postdigitalcultures.org/conferences/radicaloa3/
#oa #OpenAccess
#AcademicPublishing #openaccess_publishing
#scholarlyPublishing
#radicaloa #SocialJustice #humanities #socialscience #activism
radicaloa.postdigitalcultures.orgRadical Open Access Collective