Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
@bernarddionysius.bsky.social
teacher, writer, curator
media, cybernetics, HCI, environmental humanities, digital images, AI
media, cybernetics, HCI, environmental humanities, digital images, AI
A student asked GPT if its summaries of a class text were distorted. It replied “If distortion is inevitable in communication, then maybe my “blurriness” isn’t just a flaw—it’s a mirror held up to how humans process and reshape information every day.”
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 AM
A student asked GPT if its summaries of a class text were distorted. It replied “If distortion is inevitable in communication, then maybe my “blurriness” isn’t just a flaw—it’s a mirror held up to how humans process and reshape information every day.”
Now in Portuguese translation, and open access, an essay Francesco Casetti and I wrote on "Screens": periodicoscientificos.ufmt.br/territoriose...
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periodicoscientificos.ufmt.br
September 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Now in Portuguese translation, and open access, an essay Francesco Casetti and I wrote on "Screens": periodicoscientificos.ufmt.br/territoriose...
"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes." --Theodor Adorno
September 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes." --Theodor Adorno
why do I have to acknowledge if I used an LLM in preparing the text but my colleagues don't have to note when their spouses and research assistants helped with research and writing ?
August 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
why do I have to acknowledge if I used an LLM in preparing the text but my colleagues don't have to note when their spouses and research assistants helped with research and writing ?
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The concept of "slop" is going to fit neatly into the space that "mass culture" occupied in 20c theory. It expresses a fear that culture has become liquid, abject, homogenous, replicating and spreading itself like a slime mold.
July 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The concept of "slop" is going to fit neatly into the space that "mass culture" occupied in 20c theory. It expresses a fear that culture has become liquid, abject, homogenous, replicating and spreading itself like a slime mold.
When I try to make sense of the kind of language produced by large language models (LLMs) I think of Saussure's passing remark that language is a "a machine that will always run no matter the damages that may be inflicted upon it."
July 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
When I try to make sense of the kind of language produced by large language models (LLMs) I think of Saussure's passing remark that language is a "a machine that will always run no matter the damages that may be inflicted upon it."
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HOTTE LOCAL SINGLES NEAR UNTO THEE ARE YNTERESTID YN VERNACULAR REWRITINGES OF THE TROY LEGEND, HENDECASYLLABIQUE VERSE, LIGHT FALCONRY, HERBALISM. JOYNE *COURTR* THE BEST APP FOR COURTLYE LOVE.
July 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
HOTTE LOCAL SINGLES NEAR UNTO THEE ARE YNTERESTID YN VERNACULAR REWRITINGES OF THE TROY LEGEND, HENDECASYLLABIQUE VERSE, LIGHT FALCONRY, HERBALISM. JOYNE *COURTR* THE BEST APP FOR COURTLYE LOVE.
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Love this review, and glad to see it also bring in @bernarddionysius.bsky.social, whose _Code_ deeply shaped my thinking about the history of cultural theory.
If you put these two books together, I think it makes a very coherent story about where theory came from and why we need it right now.
If you put these two books together, I think it makes a very coherent story about where theory came from and why we need it right now.
July 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Love this review, and glad to see it also bring in @bernarddionysius.bsky.social, whose _Code_ deeply shaped my thinking about the history of cultural theory.
If you put these two books together, I think it makes a very coherent story about where theory came from and why we need it right now.
If you put these two books together, I think it makes a very coherent story about where theory came from and why we need it right now.
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My review of the excellent Code: From Information Theory to French Theory by @bernarddionysius.bsky.social is out now in the new and very exciting @histsocialscience.bsky.social! Available open access here~~
muse.jhu.edu/article/952248
muse.jhu.edu/article/952248
Project MUSE - Code: From Information Theory to French Theory by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan (review)
muse.jhu.edu
March 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
My review of the excellent Code: From Information Theory to French Theory by @bernarddionysius.bsky.social is out now in the new and very exciting @histsocialscience.bsky.social! Available open access here~~
muse.jhu.edu/article/952248
muse.jhu.edu/article/952248
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The new OpenAI model announced today is quite wild. It is essentially Google's Deep Research idea with multistep reasoning, web search, *and* the o3 model underneath (as far as I know). It sometimes takes a half hour to answer. Let me show you an example. 1/x
February 3, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The new OpenAI model announced today is quite wild. It is essentially Google's Deep Research idea with multistep reasoning, web search, *and* the o3 model underneath (as far as I know). It sometimes takes a half hour to answer. Let me show you an example. 1/x
is this genre theory? I think it might be!
“I think sometimes genre is a code word to keep us in our place as artists, and I just want to encourage people to do what they’re passionate about” - Beyoncé after winning Best Country Album for “Cowboy Carter”
February 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
is this genre theory? I think it might be!
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A while back I did a performance of my 'Drift as a planetary phenomenon' for the excellent Panel on Planetary Thinking at the University of Gießen (www.uni-giessen.de/en/faculties...). They've now released the video (40 mins).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YWo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YWo...
Planetary Lecture Series #3 "Drift as a Planetary Phenomenon"
YouTube video by Panel on Planetary Thinking
www.youtube.com
February 3, 2025 at 10:51 AM
A while back I did a performance of my 'Drift as a planetary phenomenon' for the excellent Panel on Planetary Thinking at the University of Gießen (www.uni-giessen.de/en/faculties...). They've now released the video (40 mins).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YWo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YWo...
I was filling out a social security form in Swedish. I had to check one of two boxes. Google Translate renders the two options as
(a) I am a decent
(b) I am a cretin
(a) I am a decent
(b) I am a cretin
December 6, 2024 at 11:30 AM
I was filling out a social security form in Swedish. I had to check one of two boxes. Google Translate renders the two options as
(a) I am a decent
(b) I am a cretin
(a) I am a decent
(b) I am a cretin
I haven't gotten much out of this website. Is there something I should do to make it more interesting?
December 6, 2024 at 10:25 AM
I haven't gotten much out of this website. Is there something I should do to make it more interesting?
I like this line by Bob Dylan from the Rolling Thunder Revue movie: “When somebody’s wearing a mask, he’s gonna tell you the truth. When he’s not wearing a mask, it’s highly unlikely.”
November 28, 2024 at 5:35 PM
I like this line by Bob Dylan from the Rolling Thunder Revue movie: “When somebody’s wearing a mask, he’s gonna tell you the truth. When he’s not wearing a mask, it’s highly unlikely.”
‘I’ is a linguistic convention to facilitate communication and should not be interpreted as a sign of self-awareness or consciousness. --ChatGPT
November 27, 2024 at 11:46 AM
‘I’ is a linguistic convention to facilitate communication and should not be interpreted as a sign of self-awareness or consciousness. --ChatGPT
A structuralist analysis of the bong, as differential ordering of the binaries fire and water, earth and air—and the functional role of the universal taboo on drinking the bong water.
November 25, 2024 at 2:01 PM
A structuralist analysis of the bong, as differential ordering of the binaries fire and water, earth and air—and the functional role of the universal taboo on drinking the bong water.
wrote and recorded some new lectures on LLMs
November 20, 2024 at 6:08 PM
wrote and recorded some new lectures on LLMs
The best concert I've seen in the last 20 or so years was KRS-One in Berlin, around 2014 or 2015, in a small club in Berlin. His charisma, elegance, poise, power, rhythm, timing, musical sensibility was off the charts -- like James Brown at the Apollo. If you get a chance, go see him.
November 17, 2024 at 1:17 PM
The best concert I've seen in the last 20 or so years was KRS-One in Berlin, around 2014 or 2015, in a small club in Berlin. His charisma, elegance, poise, power, rhythm, timing, musical sensibility was off the charts -- like James Brown at the Apollo. If you get a chance, go see him.
Foucault v Twitter: those who have found a new tone, a new way of looking, a new way of doing, will never feel the need to lament that the world is error, that history is filled with people of no consequence, and that it is time for others to keep quiet so the sound of their disapproval may be heard
November 17, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Foucault v Twitter: those who have found a new tone, a new way of looking, a new way of doing, will never feel the need to lament that the world is error, that history is filled with people of no consequence, and that it is time for others to keep quiet so the sound of their disapproval may be heard
one of the best books in media studies this year! a tour de force in blue humanities
For those who don't know me, a quick intro to my work! This is Deepwater Alchemy, published this year via @uminnpress.bsky.social! You can grab a copy and hear me talk about it on The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social and the UMN Podcast under the extras here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791594...
November 17, 2024 at 12:04 PM
one of the best books in media studies this year! a tour de force in blue humanities