My new article. A Vision of Air. Started off as a personal #COVID response and expnded somewhat read.dukeupress.edu/cultural-pol...
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My new article. A Vision of Air. Started off as a personal #COVID response and expnded somewhat read.dukeupress.edu/cultural-pol...
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Text Generation and Other Uneasy Human-Machine Collaborations — a new open access article by me: iperstoria.it/article/view...
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 2, 1949 Dr. Norbert Wiener Mass. Institute of Technology Cambridge, Nass. My dear Dr. Wiener: The publication of your book on Cybernetics has caused the editorial staff which is in charge of the revision of the Dewey Decimal Classification considerable difficulty. We are in the position of being asked by sincere inquirers as to how to classify the book and by less sincere people who like to confront supposedly expert classifiers with problems which they are quite certain are beyond our capabilities. Quite frankly, cybernetics is. We have read and reread reviews and explanations of the content of your book and have even tried to understand the book itself, only to become more uncertain as to what field it falls into. I am appealing to you as the one person who should be able to tell us. Possibly you already know that the Dewey Decimal Classification attempts to assign a number to the subject content of books. Generally speaking, a book can only be assigned one number and consequently we cannot take care of the many aspects that certain works cover. The problem must be simplified and consequently, is your book such as to place it in psychology? Does it belong in the field of electronic computation devices or does it belong in mathematics? If we were not somewhat desperate about this particular problem, I should hesitate to bother you with it. Cordially yours, Esther P. Potter Director
A frustrated letter from the Library of Congress asking Norbert Weiner what section of a library his book is supposed to be in (1949).
"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent."
Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on)
youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as
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Clive Scott and Nick Warr, eds. Shadows of Reality: A Catalogue of W.G. Sebald's Photographic Materials (@mitpress.bsky.social, 2023; #skystorians, #history, #photography): mitpress.mit.edu/978026254829...
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This is a picture of my book entitled Archive, Photography and the Language of Administration, in an open box as it arrives from the publisher in early 2021
I have a few new followers, so, by way of introduction, this is my book. Nearly four years old now but it still describes my interests. For details and reviews see www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Librarians moving dystopian novels to the nonfiction shelves.
Great working with Sunil Manghani on this quirky piece: ‘From Dürer’s Rhinoceros to AI Image Diffusion Models’, co-author piece with @JaneABirkin, available OPEN ACCESS: #Holotipus, journal of zoology, systematics and taxonomy |
holotipus.it/archive/
My new piece in Journal of Art Practice special issue www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... I co-edited the issue with Sunil Manghani - our intro here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Whole series of these using bbc sound archives www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...