Fabian Offert
@zentralwerkstatt.org
Associate Professor UC Santa Barbara | I study how machine learning models represent culture and what is at stake – aesthetically and politically – when they do.
Last day to submit! Deadline is today!
Fabian Offert@zentralwerkstatt.org · last mo.Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.
Me: (being murdered by the AI paperclip maximizer) Bluesky: Actually it can't 'murder' you. Murder implies intent.
One more week to submit! See you in Santa Barbara in October!
Fabian Offert@zentralwerkstatt.org · last mo.Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.
You know that annoying asshole we all hate? Well I have resolved to put screenshots of his posts into your feed every day until the heat death of the universe. Enjoy
Looks just like him amazing down to the low-cut grey dress he always liked to wear to the patent office
Nature@nature.com · 3w agoAt the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, students can listen to lectures given by AI avatars that look and speak just like Albert Einstein go.nature.com/3SROOtD
I posted on arXiv.org the preprint of my “AI Virtue: What Is ‘Good’ Knowledge in the Age of Artificial Intelligence?” arxiv.org/abs/2607.01776, which is forthcoming in a double special issue of “MFS Modern Fiction Studies on “Cultural AI” in 2027.
So glad to see the book "Vector Media", just co-published with @uminnpress.bsky.social, getting the attention it deserves! 👇Shout out to the authors @zentralwerkstatt.org Fabian Offert + Leo Impett for their excellent work!!!! ✊ + thx @mckenziewark.bsky.social + Lev Manovich for your interest.
If you're wondering why the world is what it is you should read the Hacker News comments on this piece (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4877...), where one half doesn't get the joke and the other is like "she does have some good points though." inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-i-...
Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination
By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
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Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.
This neat site assembles all kinds of ancient OSs (more like window managers) which reminded me of the hyper-obscure one that I learned Desktop computing on, called GeoWorks Ensemble. It pretends to be Windows but if you poke anything it crumbles back into DOS. Glorious. www.typewritten.org/Media/
Getting looped into convos about this book in its finishing stages expanded the scope of theory around neural networks in LLMs & Media — it opened up so many productive ways of thinking for me. Essential reading for anyone who’s been looking for a fresh theorization of critical AI.
James E. Dobson@jeddobson.bsky.social · 3mo agoBound to be one of the most important critical and theoretical books on the meaning of neural networks (and not just for vision). Congratulations to Leonardo Impett and Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org! Freshly published from meson press and University of Minnesota Press. @uminnpress.bsky.social
Bound to be one of the most important critical and theoretical books on the meaning of neural networks (and not just for vision). Congratulations to Leonardo Impett and Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org! Freshly published from meson press and University of Minnesota Press. @uminnpress.bsky.social
Perhaps one day we can even get computers to output numbers rather than long-winded prose!!! github.com/JuliusBrusse...
GitHub - JuliusBrussee/caveman: 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman
🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman - JuliusBrussee/caveman
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It's Easter so I thought it would be appropriate to be back from the dead to announce that this is coming out at the end of this month: www.upress.umn.edu/978151792167...
Vector Media
Dispelling the notion of “generative” AINeural networks are designed to dissolve all media into the vector space—a universal space of commensurability....
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CHAT TOKEN VECTOR Questioning Models of Language and Neo-Structuralism in AI 11-13 June 2025, Venice Confirmed speakers: Lydia Liu, Hannes Bajohr, Gianni Gastaldi, Leonardo Impett, Fabian Offert a.o. Call for Papers: deadline April 1 unive.it/chat-token-vector
Chat Token Vector: Home
Chat Token Vector - Home
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Today at Berkeley if you're around! events.berkeley.edu/German/event...
Inaugural Sunrise Lecture on Media and Technology: Fabian Offert on “Vector Media”
For the inaugural Sunrise Lecture on Media and Technology, hosted by the Department of German, we welcome Dr. Fabian Offert, Assistant Professor of...
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BlueSky's main fault is that many people on it seem to be constantly talking about politics but in a way that is often totally anti-political
Nothing to see here, just Nature advocating LLM peer review. “Feed your dictated notes into an offline large language model (LLM) to clarify and organize your feedback. A simple prompt such as “Write a critical reviewer letter based on the following notes. Maintain a professional tone throughout”
Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review
Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.
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On Day 1 a keynote panel at the NCM on infrastructures of noise with Dang Nguyen (RMIT) @digitaldang.bsky.social, Ranjodh Dhaliwal (University of Basel) @ranjodhdhaliwal.com, Kate Mannell (Deakin) @katemannell.bsky.social and Fabian Offert (UC Santa Barbara) @zentralwerkstatt.org 2/
The AusSTS 2025 cfp is closing soon - please get your ‘Signals and Noises’ in by Friday 14 March! It’s shaping up to be an amazing few days in Narrm across the National Communication Museum and Deakin Downtown, and we'll be welcoming some amazing keynote speakers and contributors, including... 1/
Nobody knows this but if you press one of these for more than 30 seconds a genie will appear and fail to interpret a topic model for you!
In spite of it all the research group I'm leading at Cornell is hiring a postdoc! We're looking for someone w a lit/cultural studies + DH background, esp those who employ data-driven or computational methods. 2-yr position, 1/1 teaching load. Apps due 3/21 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29746
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Happy to to announce that @mellonfoundation has awarded our Center for Humanities Communication (CHC) a $150,000 grant (via @aacu.org, which supports CHC in the role of our fiscal sponsor). Our news release: center-humanities-communication.org/chc-blog/new...
UC Santa Barbara’s new Center for the Humanities & Machine Learning (huml.ucsb.edu) launched today with a talk by Hannes Bajohr (huml.ucsb.edu/events). L to R in photo: Fabian Offert (@zentralwerkstatt.org), Hannes Bajohr (@hannesbajohr.de), Rita Raley, Owen Leonard (@owenleonard.bsky.social).
Today, Mosher Alumni House @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social, 3pm – stop by if you can!
Fabian Offert@zentralwerkstatt.org · 2y agoIf you're in the SBA area, join @ritaraley.bsky.social and myself this Friday, 3-5 for the opening of our newly established Center for the Humanities and Machine Learning, feat. a keynote by @hannesbajohr.de! huml.ucsb.edu
Ah yes, rents rise, an entirely natural phenomenon, completely independent of human agency. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Rents rise as refugees from the fires squeeze into L.A.'s tight housing market
The Palisades and Eaton fires destroyed or damaged more than 8,500 homes in an already tight housing market. Experts said the disaster will probably put upward pressure on rents in areas close to the ...
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