Steve Jankowski

Essentialist rhetors

Authentic/Fake: A technology will make it hard (if not impossible) to tell the difference between the real and the artificial.

Purity/Contagion: A technology is bad because it was made through a suspect process. If you use the technology, you are poisoned; become bad.

There are words, and then there are words with spaces.
www.linguabase.org/words-with-s...

Untitled Image by Johann Zahn from Oculus Artificialis (1685)

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Illustration from Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium (The Long-Distance Artificial Eye, or Telescope).

Ray-tracing 1685

😍 That "Maria" page.

Just here to say the font combination of Rubik and Necto Mono feels perfect for a site about Political Economy. 🏁

The figure from this paper is great.

Omg. I will be honest. I also did a double take when I saw the name on screen.

Lovely! Thanks!

CFP: In Defense of the Commons Call for Papers: “In Defense of the Commons”communication +1, vol 12edited by Zachary McDowell, Steve Jankowski, Matthew Vetter, and Fenwick Mckelvey **Premise**As the Internet becomes more and more o...

Currently a co-editor of a special issue "In defense of the commons". Do you have any favourite texts that speak to this? openpublishing.library.umass.edu/cpo/news/24/

Hankering for the return of the cloister.
"In order to complete this project I will require funding for a courtyard, a groundskeeper to feed the birds and small mammals, and a water feature (size to be determined based on budgetary restrictions).

Currently I am just starting to supervise a new group of MA students and I'm working on a paper that is grounded in science and technology studies. And so while thinking about helping students sort through writing and my own ideas, I came up with this Latourian-styled research outline.

New Wikipedia tool: "Scans Wikipedia biographies of women for common gender bias patterns and flags specific passages for editorial review." No AI.
Developed by Netha Hussain. nethahussain.github.io/wikipedia-ge...

A google ngram line graph of the the phrases according to experts, according to the news, according to Wikipedia, according to the dictionary, and according people. Starting in the late nineteenth century to 2020. Ordered highest to lowest as of 2020.

A diagram of authority

composite satellite image of Antarctica, the snow & ice appearing as different shades of blue and beige, the sea is black. following three images are variations of this theme.

GUYS have you seen this. antarctica on google maps. go look at it. this is tech struggling to process the Sublime

Red Scare girlfriends | 10 | Language games with the Red Scare podcast This chapter untangles internet memes as a form of vernacular creative expression that allows individuals to play with language, imagery, and cultural

new book chapter out, co-authored by eleni maragkou and i on the subcultural politics and visuals of the #redscarepodcast
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Generative AI, Everyday Aesthetic Production, and the Imperial Mode of Living Abstract. It is becoming increasingly clear that generative AI technologies come with significant environmental costs. Regardless, commercial generative AI services suggest they will facilitate a form...

Some recent work on this read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

Meta’s Internal Research What The Company Learned About Social Media and Harms to Mental Health from Dozens of Internal Studies

“Internal researchers can observe patterns, risks, and harms at a scale and level of precision that is simply unavailable to outside scholars.”
metasinternalresearch.org

Oh Look! Keywords 🤩

Generative AI and creative practices: four critical keywords between the artworld and the creative industries osf.io/preprints/me...

Can you get AIN swag?

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Angine de Poitrine En réveillant les notes qui dorment au fond des craques entre les touches du piano, ces deux êtres incongrus aux grandes tronches de papier mâché vous feront ressentir un stimulus auditif comparable au serrement délicieux et lancinant qui précède la crise cardiaque.

anginedepoitrine.bandcamp.com

Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

💿 Now spinning: Quebec microtonal mathrock band _Angine de Poitrine_ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...

@mkjones.bsky.social
Got a fourfold for you coming out of science and technology studies. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Trump Administration Frames Its Second Term in Serif Fonts Calibri is out at the State Department while Times New Roman is in. Also: What a new architect brings to the White House ballroom project.

The Trump admin's "choice of Instrument Serif came as a shock to its designers, Rodrigo Fuenzalida + Jordan Egstad.... 'I was disappointed to see the Trump administration adopt it,' Egstad writes. 'Using a freely available + open-source font to promote exclusionary policies is deeply ironic.'"

Sometimes reading academic papers catches you off guard. When the corresponding author is not the same as the article's author, you can expect an acknowledgment section like this one.

RIP Susan Leigh Star.

Network propaganda (completely free). The intro (Epistemic Crisis) is great for establishing some workable definitions and a concise history of propaganda. library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

David Graeber has a large portion of a chapter in "The Utopia of Rules" where the postal service is pitted as the epitome of violence and sociality of a bureaucratic society. If red tape is the enemy, then the post office has been its symbol for 200 years.

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Now spinning: Tonite by LCD Soundsystem.

I do feel like James Murphy was reading Adorno when he wrote this song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqq3...