Look what arrived at my office! Thanks to @joecalamia.bsky.social and @uchicagopress.bsky.social for all the amazing work they did to turn my thoughts into a material object that actually exists in the world (and for the complimentary copies)!
Jacob Gaboury
@jacobgaboury.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Film & Media, UC Berkeley (he/him) Media History | STS | Queer Theory | Digital Visual Culture Book: Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics (2021) Now: Screenshot Histories & Queer Computing https://jacobgaboury.com
Please circulate: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/call-ap... Seeking 10 Early Career Fellows to participate in 2 summer academies to be held in Berlin June 14–18, 2027 & June 26–30, 2028: SCIENCE IMAGINES ITS FUTURE. How have scholars deliberated about investing scarce resources in an uncertain future?
Call for Applications: Summer Academy on "Science Imagines Its Future" | MPIWG
Call for Applications: Summer Academy on "Science Imagines Its Future" (Deadline November 1)
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My department at UC Berkeley is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in "Critical/Experimental Film and Video Production." It's a wonderful and dynamic department and one of the fastest growing programs on campus. Applications are due September 30th, please share widely! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05434
Assistant Professor - Critical/Experimental Film and Video Production - Department of Film & Media
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Come and join me tonight as I talk about The Impossible Reversal and the origins of game design in management training. ROMchip will be hosting me for a talk on their twitch channel with a Q&A afterwards! 7pm ET, and more info here: www.tickettailor.com/events/romch...
Select Tickets – ROMchip Presents: Peter McDonald on The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play – Twitch
ROMchip Presents: Peter McDonald on The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play – Twitch, Tue Jul 14, 2026 - **Tickets serve as calendar reminders for the event; they are not required to attend....
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OK, let's start the search. Adrienne Shaw is on the lookout for two titles of early LGBTQ software that predate Caper in the Castro. One is called VAPOR PALACE. The other features Tom of Finland art but has no discovered name yet. The search is on - if you know more details or... have a copy? ping.
There is something in here for everyone: Marxists, logistics obsessives, obsolete-software enthusiasts, and those are all the kinds of people I know about. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Seeing Like a Supply Chain
A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...
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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/
VANISHING CULTURE is out now! From #InternetArchive, this book looks at what is disappearing online. It asks what it means when the record of ourselves starts to vanish 🕳️ 📖 Download: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase in print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta... #DigitalMemory #Books
Immediately rushing to teach this in my grad seminar
Elan Ullendorff@elan.place · 5mo agoreupping with a link! lenyx.neocities.org
My CIMS department at Penn is hiring for a Visiting Assistant Professor position in Media Studies: apply.interfolio.com/180872
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Coming back to read @jacobgaboury.bsky.social's Screenshots Or It Didn't Happen more carefully to teach it this week. It's a really great article, even beyond the 🔥 title! Histories of transformation in computer users relation to the screen & of gaming 🗃️ www.romchip.org/index.php/ro...
Screenshots or It Didn’t Happen | ROMchip
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Alyssa S.@drsepinwall.bsky.social · 7mo ago"Screenshots or It Didn't Happen" by @jacobgaboury.bsky.social is one of the best article titles ever. Stoked to have it gracing my syllabus (here's hoping I finish the damn thing today!!). Also happy to include @stefanaq.bsky.social @ludohistory.bsky.social & @whitakeralmanac.bsky.social 🎮🗃️.
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social on Brian Cantwell Smith "The difference between reckoning and judgment...highlights the need for a textured map of intelligence’s kinds ... to explain why reckoning systems are so astonishingly powerful in some respects, yet fall so spectacularly short in others.”
On Brian Cantwell Smith and the Promise of AI
Today I had the bittersweet pleasure of participating in a symposium honoring the late philosopher Brian Cantwell Smith, a good friend whom I’d known for over 30 years.
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Hey! At 1PM PST/4PM EST I'm playing a modular synth set focusing on house music and samples of home themes for the @romchip.bsky.social fundraiser! Learn more at donate.romchip.org and watch the stream (live now) at www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal
We're starting our 3rd annual fundraiser momentarily -- join us! www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories@romchip.bsky.social · 6mo agoHere's our whole fundraiser schedule at a glance! It all goes down THIS SATURDAY, February 21, 11AM-11PM ET -- don't miss it! (and don't forget to donate!) donate.romchip.org
CFP: Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy on Humanities and Media 2026: Periodization After a one-year hiatus, the Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy on Humanities and Media is back! The theme for 2026 is Periodization, and we'll meet for the week of June 22-26 in Berlin. How, why, and with what…
CFP: Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy on Humanities and Media 2026: Periodization
After a one-year hiatus, the Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy on Humanities and Media is back! The theme for 2026 is Periodization, and we'll meet for the week of June 22-26 in Berlin. How, why, and with what epistemic implications is history divided into temporal segments? Periodizations—whether in the form of epochs, ages, turning points, or more heroic “eras”—belong to the most fundamental and at the same time most frequently contested historiographical operations in literary, art, and media studies.
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My new text on parallel processing and the financial nature of AI is online open source (along with a bunch of other killer texts) in the new volume Reckoning with Everything edited by Bernhard Siegert and Benedikt Merkle for Meson Press meson.press/books/reckon...
Reckoning with Everything. The Becoming-Environmental of Computing › meson press
Computation must and has always had to “reckon with everything.” This volume brings together contributions that seek to describe the environmentality of computation based on selected settings.
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Jacob Gaboury@jacobgaboury.bsky.social · 7mo agoOn Thurs 1/29 from 4:30-5:30EST I will be co-hosting a book event with @gkafer.bsky.social for @scmsmst.bsky.social! We will be in dialogue w/ Anna Munster (UNSW) and Sarah Murray (UMich) about their new books on AI: "DeepAesthetics" and "Powered by Smart". Join us! berkeley.zoom.us/j/94576327580
Only a few hours away! Please join us for this wonderful conversation.
Jacob Gaboury@jacobgaboury.bsky.social · 7mo agoOn Thurs 1/29 from 4:30-5:30EST I will be co-hosting a book event with @gkafer.bsky.social for @scmsmst.bsky.social! We will be in dialogue w/ Anna Munster (UNSW) and Sarah Murray (UMich) about their new books on AI: "DeepAesthetics" and "Powered by Smart". Join us! berkeley.zoom.us/j/94576327580
Happening tomorrow! Join us at 4:30pm EST!
Jacob Gaboury@jacobgaboury.bsky.social · 7mo agoOn Thurs 1/29 from 4:30-5:30EST I will be co-hosting a book event with @gkafer.bsky.social for @scmsmst.bsky.social! We will be in dialogue w/ Anna Munster (UNSW) and Sarah Murray (UMich) about their new books on AI: "DeepAesthetics" and "Powered by Smart". Join us! berkeley.zoom.us/j/94576327580
What a fantastic idea for a class! Excited to see the pairings each week.
Theodore Kim@theodore-kim.bsky.social · 7mo agoI am teaching a Computer Graphics class this semester where I am going to pair technical readings with STS-type readings. The students are evaluated on both.
On Thurs 1/29 from 4:30-5:30EST I will be co-hosting a book event with @gkafer.bsky.social for @scmsmst.bsky.social! We will be in dialogue w/ Anna Munster (UNSW) and Sarah Murray (UMich) about their new books on AI: "DeepAesthetics" and "Powered by Smart". Join us! berkeley.zoom.us/j/94576327580
On Thurs 1/29 from 4:30-5:30EST I will be co-hosting a book event with @gkafer.bsky.social for @scmsmst.bsky.social! We will be in dialogue w/ Anna Munster (UNSW) and Sarah Murray (UMich) about their new books on AI: "DeepAesthetics" and "Powered by Smart". Join us! berkeley.zoom.us/j/94576327580
I didn't know about this journal, and just peeked at the last issue. This title is amazing! "Screenshots or It Didn’t Happen: Screen Photography and Early Game Cultures" Jacob Gaboury Congratulations @jacobgaboury.bsky.social! www.romchip.org/index.php/ro...
Screenshots or It Didn’t Happen | ROMchip
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It's Giving Tuesday at the VGHF! We've had an incredible 2025, but we need your help to make sure we can continue doing our charitable work in 2026 and beyond. We just launched our annual Winter Fundraiser campaign, please give if you're able (and share this post!). http://gamehistory.org/donate
Ding ding ding! We are now here at @wonderville.nyc for the third and final session of the OCTOPAD OPEN! You can find us at 1186 Broadway in Brooklyn from 3-8PM! For more info check out: www.wonderville.nyc/events/the-o...
SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW OF WHATEVER ISSUE TWO RELEASE PARTY REMINDER! TOMORROW, Thursday, August 28, at 6 p.m. onward, at Et al., 2831A Mission Street. There will be readings with an element of chance! And pizza and beers, and whatever else turns up. See you tomorrow! Looking forward. xx
Prof. Susan Stryker puts on her "academic drag" & marshals the "cultural capital" of her doctoral training in gender studies to say that Gavin Newsom did not do his homework well enough & he would fail her class. 🔥🔥🔥
Mari Cohn@maricohn.bsky.social · 12mo agoTransgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social
Two things that seem clear to me after listening to ppl talk about this are: 1) that there just is no good options for SCMS right now. Speaking out means taking a risk, but so does staying silent. People are already being fired, reprimanded, or self-censoring out of fear of these.
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa@benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 12mo agoI want to address two criticisms of the call to boycott SCMS. One is about the board's status as unpaid volunteers, who should not be criticized by the people who are not, themselves volunteering to be on the board. I think this is a good rule of thumb when it comes to things like the food...