Forthcoming double special issue of #JournalofVisualArtPractice: 'Between Hawaiki Nui and the Liquid Continent' (forthcoming, Vol. 24, 1-2). Find out more... www.linkedin.com/pulse/spring...

Visited O.P. Jindal Global University s Constitution Museum; established as part of the 75th-anniversary celebrations of India’s foundational document. One exhibit allows your own image to be seamlessly incorporated into a historical photograph…

New article: ‘Quantum Life, but not as we know it’: do we have the imagination for it? Inspired by report in yesterday’s @newscientist.bsky.social on quantum sensor built from a glowing protein found in bioluminescent jellyfish. | medium.com/electronic-l...

Crow in Tokyo. Winter sign of something more? Barthes no longer here.

2024 HIGHLIGHT: Grateful to work with all involved @barthesstudies.bsky.social special issue, #Preparations | sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/volu...

Shunya Yoshimi presented on this topic at @theoryculturesociety.org Summer School (www.theoryculturesociety.org/tcs-summer-s...). It’s great to see this work now published in the journal. Lots to consider for the ‘post-university’…

‘Animal Cultures at the Edge of Extinction’ @theoryculturesociety.org - explores how and why animal cultures matter at the edge of extinction, with considerations for the environmental humanities, extinction studies, and philosophical ethology… journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#Quantum news abounds: Published in Optica, researchers demonstrate quantum teleportation over existing fibre optic cables. Merging quantum communication with existing internet infrastructure in this way simplifies future tech like quantum computing | opg.optica.org/optica/fullt...

Train Less, Think More 🚀 Review of @hf.co research that demonstrates smarter inference methods, allowing smaller language models to rival massive systems (so cutting down on the impact of training). #AI #LLMs #Sustainability #ComputeOptimization #Innovation | medium.com/electronic-l...

…a compelling, long lost interview with Mary Douglas on ‘Purity and Danger’, available open access @theoryculturesociety.org (Vol. 39, Issue 7-8, 2022; part of section ‘Notes on Structuralism’) | journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

HOMMAGE À BRUNO LATOUR
(Sciences Po, 4-7 Dec’ 24). 4 days, 60+ philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, historians, political scientists, lawyers, artists. Guest editor Antoine Hennion showcased @theoryculturesociety.org special issue, ‘Thinking with Latour’ | journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcsa/41/5

OPEN ACCESS: ‘The Public Sphere, the Post-University and the Scholarly Apparatus’, editor-in-chief Mike Featherstone’s introduction to a special section contextualising a set of papers, originating from @theoryculturesociety.org Summer School | journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

‘…it was in the spring of the year of ‘02, just one month after Robert Falcon Scott’s historic balloon flight in Antarctica’ (Cullin, ‘Mr Holmes’).