Following a one-week hiatus, ORG will reconvene on 11/14 10AM EST to read the first chapter of Peter Krapp's 2024 book, Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation. @mitpress.bsky.social

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This Friday (9/5 10AM) we’re closing out Leif Weatherby’s Language Machines, reading chapter 6 and the conclusion.

This Friday (8/29 10AM) ORG will carry on discussing Chapter 5 of Leif Weatherby's Language Games.

This Friday (8/22 10AM) ORG will carry on discussing Chapter 4 of Leif Weatherby's Language Games.

Taking a one-week hiatus, on 8/15 @ 10AM ORG will carry on discussing Chapters 2 & 3 of Weatherby's Language Games: "The Eliza Effect Goes Global: Intelligence as Simulacrum", and "The Semiological Surround, or How Language is the Medium of Computation".

Next Friday (8/1 10AM) we will carry on reading Language Machines, Ch.1: "...the humanities lost public and even academic status as the primary knowers of language in the [1990s high period of literary theory]; the recovery of the object is urgent for a world with language machines."

This Friday (7/25 10AM), ORG will read the Introduction to @leifw.bsky.social's new book Language Machines.
www.upress.umn.edu/978145297351...

This Friday (6/6 10AM) ORG will discuss @akarshkumar0101.bsky.social, Clune, Lehman & Stanley's paper, "Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning: The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis".

Next week (5/30 10AM) ORG will conclude our reading of Overwijk's Cybernetic Capitalism, reading Chapter 4 and the Epilogue.

Next week (5/23 10AM) we will continue with Overwijk's Cybernetic Capitalism, reading Chapter 3, "The Vitalist Alternative: Sympoietic Multitudes"

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Next week (5/16 10AM) we will carry on with Overwijk's Cybernetic Capitalism, reading Chapter 2, "Spiraling into Control: Paradoxes of Thermodynamic Rationalization"

This Friday (5/9) ORG will be discussing Ch.1 of @jloverwijk.bsky.social's new book Cybernetic Capitalism: A Critical Theory of the Incommunicable. NB: We will be meeting one hour later than usual, at 11AM ET

This Friday we will continue to read chapter one of Maja Bak Herrie’s new book Thinking Through Data: How Outliers, Aggregates, and Patterns Shape Perception.

Next week ORG will read the introduction to Maja Bak Herrie’s new book Thinking Through Data: How Outliers, Aggregates, and Patterns Shape Perception.

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