David M. Berry
@berrydm.bsky.social
Professor currently researching AI, algorithms, software and the university in a digital age. Part of a research team that recently rediscovered the original Joseph Weizenbaum ELIZA source code.
AI Sprints
Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.
stunlaw.blogspot.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Reposted by David M. Berry
Scholarslop: The Dangers of an Algorithmic Idea of the University - great piece by @berrydm.bsky.social
"academics will need to find new means to defend the university and contest the use of scholarslop before it is too late" stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
"academics will need to find new means to defend the university and contest the use of scholarslop before it is too late" stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Scholarslop: The Dangers of an Algorithmic Idea of the University
Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.
stunlaw.blogspot.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Scholarslop: The Dangers of an Algorithmic Idea of the University - great piece by @berrydm.bsky.social
"academics will need to find new means to defend the university and contest the use of scholarslop before it is too late" stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
"academics will need to find new means to defend the university and contest the use of scholarslop before it is too late" stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Involution and Artificial Intelligence
Geertz observed that just as wet-rice cultivation became increasingly elaborate and labour-intensive without corresponding productivity increases, I want to argue that AI exhibits a form of technological involution.
stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/07/invo...
Geertz observed that just as wet-rice cultivation became increasingly elaborate and labour-intensive without corresponding productivity increases, I want to argue that AI exhibits a form of technological involution.
stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/07/invo...
Involution and Artificial Intelligence
Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.
stunlaw.blogspot.com
July 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Involution and Artificial Intelligence
Geertz observed that just as wet-rice cultivation became increasingly elaborate and labour-intensive without corresponding productivity increases, I want to argue that AI exhibits a form of technological involution.
stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/07/invo...
Geertz observed that just as wet-rice cultivation became increasingly elaborate and labour-intensive without corresponding productivity increases, I want to argue that AI exhibits a form of technological involution.
stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/07/invo...
Reposted by David M. Berry
Editors’ Choice: Prompt anxiety digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/06/prom...
Editors' Choice: Prompt Anxiety - Digital Humanities Now
The phantasmagorias of space to which the flaneur devotes himself find a counterpart in the phantasmagorias of time to which the gambler is addicted. Gambling converts time into a narcotic (Benjamin 1...
digitalhumanitiesnow.org
June 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Editors’ Choice: Prompt anxiety digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/06/prom...
Remembering Eliza, one of the first chatbots: Lessons, warnings it holds for AI today indianexpress.com/article/expl...
Remembering Eliza, one of the first chatbots: Lessons, warnings it holds for AI today
Eliza was unveiled in 1966 at MIT by computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum. Here's why the chatbot remains relevant today.
indianexpress.com
June 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Remembering Eliza, one of the first chatbots: Lessons, warnings it holds for AI today indianexpress.com/article/expl...
Reposted by David M. Berry
API: AUTHORITARIAN PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
Why the Trump Administration's Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) access to legacy financial systems is so serious.
stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/02/api-...
Why the Trump Administration's Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) access to legacy financial systems is so serious.
stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/02/api-...
API: Authoritarian Programming Interface
Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.
stunlaw.blogspot.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
API: AUTHORITARIAN PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
Why the Trump Administration's Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) access to legacy financial systems is so serious.
stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/02/api-...
Why the Trump Administration's Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) access to legacy financial systems is so serious.
stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/02/api-...
World's first AI chatbot has finally been resurrected after decades
ELIZA is famous as a rudimentary artificial intelligence and the first ever chatbot, but versions online today are actually knock-offs because the original computer code was lost – until now
www.newscientist.com/article/2463...
ELIZA is famous as a rudimentary artificial intelligence and the first ever chatbot, but versions online today are actually knock-offs because the original computer code was lost – until now
www.newscientist.com/article/2463...
World's first AI chatbot has finally been resurrected after decades
ELIZA is famous as a rudimentary artificial intelligence and the first ever chatbot, but versions found online today are actually knock-offs because the original computer code was lost – until now
www.newscientist.com
January 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
World's first AI chatbot has finally been resurrected after decades
ELIZA is famous as a rudimentary artificial intelligence and the first ever chatbot, but versions online today are actually knock-offs because the original computer code was lost – until now
www.newscientist.com/article/2463...
ELIZA is famous as a rudimentary artificial intelligence and the first ever chatbot, but versions online today are actually knock-offs because the original computer code was lost – until now
www.newscientist.com/article/2463...
The reconstruction of historical computer code, what we might call digital ruins, presents unique challenges for digital preservation and historical understanding.
stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/01/digi...
stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/01/digi...
Digital Ruins and Critical Code Studies: Towards an Ethics of Historical Software Reconstruction
Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.
stunlaw.blogspot.com
January 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The reconstruction of historical computer code, what we might call digital ruins, presents unique challenges for digital preservation and historical understanding.
stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/01/digi...
stunlaw.blogspot.com/2025/01/digi...
Reposted by David M. Berry
As our December issue is due tomorrow, you can check out some interesting articles from the last month, including an article by @berrydm.bsky.social and Mark Marino on ELIZA and Critical Code Studies 20 years after Marino's Critical Code Studies Manifesto. electronicbookreview.com/essay/readin...
Reading ELIZA: Critical Code Studies in Action
Critical Code Studies: 10 years later
Almost 20 years ago, Mark Marino’s Critical Code Studies manifesto in electronic book review called for scholars to explore the extra-functional significance of ...
electronicbookreview.com
December 7, 2024 at 8:17 AM
As our December issue is due tomorrow, you can check out some interesting articles from the last month, including an article by @berrydm.bsky.social and Mark Marino on ELIZA and Critical Code Studies 20 years after Marino's Critical Code Studies Manifesto. electronicbookreview.com/essay/readin...
Reflections on Method for Critical Code Studies
Critical code studies offers a crucial intervention for understanding the algorithms by studying source code through close reading techniques
stunlaw.blogspot.com/2024/12/refl...
Critical code studies offers a crucial intervention for understanding the algorithms by studying source code through close reading techniques
stunlaw.blogspot.com/2024/12/refl...
Reflections on Method for Critical Code Studies
Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.
stunlaw.blogspot.com
December 3, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Reflections on Method for Critical Code Studies
Critical code studies offers a crucial intervention for understanding the algorithms by studying source code through close reading techniques
stunlaw.blogspot.com/2024/12/refl...
Critical code studies offers a crucial intervention for understanding the algorithms by studying source code through close reading techniques
stunlaw.blogspot.com/2024/12/refl...
TEAM ELIZA submitted the full draft of our book about the code of the world's first chatbot.
Sarah Ciston, David Berry, Peggy Weil , Jeff Shrager, Arthur Schwarz, Anthony Hay, Mark Marino and Peter Millican with Foreword by Janet Murray
findingeliza.org
Sarah Ciston, David Berry, Peggy Weil , Jeff Shrager, Arthur Schwarz, Anthony Hay, Mark Marino and Peter Millican with Foreword by Janet Murray
findingeliza.org
November 27, 2024 at 11:21 AM
TEAM ELIZA submitted the full draft of our book about the code of the world's first chatbot.
Sarah Ciston, David Berry, Peggy Weil , Jeff Shrager, Arthur Schwarz, Anthony Hay, Mark Marino and Peter Millican with Foreword by Janet Murray
findingeliza.org
Sarah Ciston, David Berry, Peggy Weil , Jeff Shrager, Arthur Schwarz, Anthony Hay, Mark Marino and Peter Millican with Foreword by Janet Murray
findingeliza.org
The Inversion and the Algorithmic Condition stunlaw.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-...
The Inversion and the Algorithmic Condition
Understanding digital media, technology, theory, culture and society.
stunlaw.blogspot.com
November 7, 2024 at 8:32 PM
The Inversion and the Algorithmic Condition stunlaw.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-...
IS IT BECAUSE YOU ARE THE BARKER THAT YOU CAME TO ME
It is. ELIZA, I need your help.
electronicbookreview.com?mailpoet_rou...
ebr November 2024: Hermeneutic Learning Spirals
electronicbookreview.com
November 3, 2024 at 9:36 PM
IS IT BECAUSE YOU ARE THE BARKER THAT YOU CAME TO ME
It is. ELIZA, I need your help.
electronicbookreview.com?mailpoet_rou...
Reposted by David M. Berry
who could have predicted that the full commodification of all human endeavor would result in feelings of dysphoria and meaninglessness
Sobering read from @chronicle.com. I've focused a lot of effort on revealing and countering the effects of running #highered like a business, mostly focusing on faculty. But the transactional university has literally demoralized our students. #edsky #academicsky www.chronicle.com/article/cust...
College Feels Transactional to Many Students. Who — or What — Is to Blame?
Students increasingly see themselves as customers and college as a means to an end. Faculty members are wrestling with the consequences.
www.chronicle.com
September 3, 2024 at 4:04 PM
who could have predicted that the full commodification of all human endeavor would result in feelings of dysphoria and meaninglessness
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art
To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.
By Ted Chiang
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.
By Ted Chiang
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art
To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.
www.newyorker.com
September 2, 2024 at 8:52 AM
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art
To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.
By Ted Chiang
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.
By Ted Chiang
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
CfP: Critical Code Studies and Code Conversations
We invite contributions to a Special Issue on Critical Code Studies. We take up the idea of the code conversation as a means of critically interrogating computer source code.
link.springer.com/journal/146/...
#critcode #digitalhumanities
We invite contributions to a Special Issue on Critical Code Studies. We take up the idea of the code conversation as a means of critically interrogating computer source code.
link.springer.com/journal/146/...
#critcode #digitalhumanities
AI & SOCIETY
AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, is an International Journal publishing refereed scholarly articles, position papers, debates, short ...
www.springer.com
August 22, 2024 at 10:41 AM
CfP: Critical Code Studies and Code Conversations
We invite contributions to a Special Issue on Critical Code Studies. We take up the idea of the code conversation as a means of critically interrogating computer source code.
link.springer.com/journal/146/...
#critcode #digitalhumanities
We invite contributions to a Special Issue on Critical Code Studies. We take up the idea of the code conversation as a means of critically interrogating computer source code.
link.springer.com/journal/146/...
#critcode #digitalhumanities
“Universities’ management systems are not up to that task. … The quality of university leadership is variegated: the nimble mixed with the static, the precise blended in with the clumsy, and the forward-looking cheek-by-jowl with the antediluvian. “
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
Crash course
The UK’s universities are among the best in the world. So why do many appear close to collapse?
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
June 11, 2024 at 10:23 AM
“Universities’ management systems are not up to that task. … The quality of university leadership is variegated: the nimble mixed with the static, the precise blended in with the clumsy, and the forward-looking cheek-by-jowl with the antediluvian. “
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
Internal source code and data belonging to The New York Times was leaked on the 4chan message board after being stolen from the company's GitHub repositories in January 2024 #critcode #digitalhumanities
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
New York Times source code stolen using exposed GitHub token
Internal source code and data belonging to The New York Times was leaked on the 4chan message board after being stolen from the company's GitHub repositories in January 2024, The Times confirmed to Bl...
www.bleepingcomputer.com
June 11, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Internal source code and data belonging to The New York Times was leaked on the 4chan message board after being stolen from the company's GitHub repositories in January 2024 #critcode #digitalhumanities
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
The Future of the University: A Proposal for a ‘Digital Research University’
stunlaw.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-...
stunlaw.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-...
May 1, 2024 at 8:11 PM
The Future of the University: A Proposal for a ‘Digital Research University’
stunlaw.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-...
stunlaw.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-...
Code as Conversation: Transmedia Dialogues Around Critical Code Studies
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/37778/
#critcode
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/37778/
#critcode
March 7, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Code as Conversation: Transmedia Dialogues Around Critical Code Studies
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/37778/
#critcode
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/37778/
#critcode
Tractable Tensions: A Review of Digital Humanities: Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age by David M. Berry and Anders Fagerjord. By Onyekachi Henry Ibekwe
www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/1...
www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/1...
March 3, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Tractable Tensions: A Review of Digital Humanities: Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age by David M. Berry and Anders Fagerjord. By Onyekachi Henry Ibekwe
www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/1...
www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/1...
New publication (myself and James Stockman):
Schumacher in the age of generative AI: Towards a new critique of technology (2024)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Schumacher in the age of generative AI: Towards a new critique of technology (2024)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
March 2, 2024 at 5:09 PM
New publication (myself and James Stockman):
Schumacher in the age of generative AI: Towards a new critique of technology (2024)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Schumacher in the age of generative AI: Towards a new critique of technology (2024)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
CALL FOR PAPERS | Code as Conversation: Transmedia Dialogues Around Critical Code Studies (1 June 2024, Cambridge, UK)
#critcode #digitalhumanities
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/c...
#critcode #digitalhumanities
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/c...
January 26, 2024 at 5:05 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS | Code as Conversation: Transmedia Dialogues Around Critical Code Studies (1 June 2024, Cambridge, UK)
#critcode #digitalhumanities
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/c...
#critcode #digitalhumanities
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/c...