Next Friday (10/16 10AM EST), ORG will meet to discuss the Introduction and Chapter 2 of Ronald E. Day's new book with @mitpress.bsky.social, Neo-Documentation and the End of Information: A Copernican Revolution. direct.mit.edu/books/book/6...

Neo-Documentation and the End of Information: A Copernican Revolution

A philosophical critique of information as relational, evidential, and transformative, grounded in neo-documentation, Heidegger, and Latour.Ronald Day’s Ne

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Next Friday (10/9 10AM) ORG will meet to discuss Dominykas Barusevičius' recent article in Technophany, "On Relational Memory through Archaeology, Technics, and Organization" technophany.philosophyandtechnology.network/article/view...

On Relational Memory through Archaeology, Technics, and Organization

This paper conceptualizes a notion of memory based on the philosophy of archaeology, with particular emphasis on early Baltic computational mnemonic technic. Early Baltic mnemonic technic manifested a...

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Next Friday (10/2 10AM) ORG meets to discuss Chapters 4-6 of @paglen.studio's new book with @versobooks.bsky.social , How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI. www.versobooks.com/en-ca/produc...

How to See Like a Machine

Today our world is under the watchful and tireless eye of computer vision, with cam­eras and monitors tracing our every move. Furthermore, generative AI is now able to render a synthetic world indisti...

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This Friday (9/25 10AM), ORG meets to discuss Henry Schmidt's recent article for @hsnatsci.bsky.social, "Making Problem Situations, from Psychology to Computing to Design": doi.org/10.1525/hsns...

This Friday (9/18 10AM), ORG meets to discuss @whkchun.bsky.social et-al's recent article in Representations 175, "Echoing Narcissus: Large Language Models and the Returns of Critical Theory" online.ucpress.edu/representati...

This Friday (9/11 10AM), ORG meets to discuss @lathemason.bsky.social's 2024 piece in the Journal of Philosophy of Education, "Digital Bildung as Semantic Emplacement" academic.oup.com/jope/article...

Digital Bildung as semantic emplacement

Abstract. Reading the significance of place as mediated through digital knowledge systems, this article expands recent debates around digital Bildung to in

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This Friday (8/28 10AM), ORG meets to discuss @anecdotal.bsky.social's latest preprint, “Language Has Two Parameters: Narrative-Induced Semantic Plasticity and Phase-Sensitive Interpretation”. The paper is available at arxiv.org/abs/2608.18041

Language Has Two Parameters: Narrative-Induced Semantic Plasticity and Phase-Sensitive Interpretation

Reading fiction or encountering narrative generally does not merely add information. The encounter changes the reader. This paper proposes that encounters alter persistent relations among simultaneous...

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After taking a week off, ORG returns on 8/21 to discuss @cecilemalaspina.bsky.social's chapter in the recently-published Edinburgh Companion to Gilbert Simondon, "Simondon and Information: A Qualitative Topological Concept" doi.org/10.1515/9781...

Following a one-week hiatus, ORG reconvenes on 8/7 10AM to discuss @mttpsq.bsky.social's recent article in AI & Society, "Machine, organism and language: a comparative epistemology of AI models". link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Machine, organism and language: a comparative epistemology of AI models - AI & SOCIETY

Inspired by Ernst Cassirer and Michel Foucault, this essay proposes a comparative epistemology of three paradigms central to the making of modern science, the humanities, and more recently AI: machine...

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Next week (7/24 10AM ET), ORG will discuss @alanyliu.bsky.social's forthcoming article, AI Virtue: What is "Good" Knowledge in the Age of Artificial Intelligence? "...the article considers how a framework might be developed for evaluating the knowledge-worth of AI..." arxiv.org/pdf/2607.01776

On 7/17 10AM, ORG carries on discussing Ch.5 of Jeffrey West Kirkwood's book, Endless Intervals, "examining instances where cinematic technics exerted a force on categories of pathology, capturing even aberrant states as a part of a monolithic logic of intervals." www.upress.umn.edu/978151791254...

Endless Intervals

Revealing cinema’s place in the coevolution of media technology and the humanCinema did not die with the digital, it gave rise to it. According to Jeffrey ...

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Next week (7/10 10AM EDT), ORG will discuss the Introduction to @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social's 2022 @uminnpress.bsky.social book, Endless Intervals. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791254...

Endless Intervals

Revealing cinema’s place in the coevolution of media technology and the humanCinema did not die with the digital, it gave rise to it. According to Jeffrey ...

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Apologies for the last minute notice! ORG meets tomorrow (10AM EDT) to discuss @nickseaver.website’s recent article in Media Theory, “Keep Computer Awake: Mouse Jigglers and the Technicity of Attention”. doi.org/10.70064/mt....

Next week (6/26 10AM EST), ORG will discuss Lindsay Poirier’s recent article, “Re-Formalizing owl:sameas: Iterating Meaning-Making in a Computer Ontology Language” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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This Friday (6/19 10AM EST) ORG will carry on discussing Chapters 2 & 3 of David Ribes' Machineries of Similarity and Difference: AIDS from Its Research Infrastructures, recently published with @mitpress.bsky.social. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Machineries of Similarity and Difference: AIDS from Its Research Infrastructures

An examination of three research infrastructures over three decades as they sought to support studies of HIV/AIDS across dramatic changes to the disease, t

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This Friday (6/12 10AM EST) ORG will discuss Chapter 1 of David Ribes' Machineries of Similarity and Difference: AIDS from Its Research Infrastructures, recently published with @mitpress.bsky.social. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Machineries of Similarity and Difference: AIDS from Its Research Infrastructures

An examination of three research infrastructures over three decades as they sought to support studies of HIV/AIDS across dramatic changes to the disease, t

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ORG reconvenes 6/5 10AM EST to discuss “Technology and Dominance. The Grandeur of Humanity in Light of the Promises of AI,” Ch.3 of Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas: "Build a new Tower of Babel (tech as domination) or a new Jerusalem (tech as shared flourishing)." www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Next week (5/15 10AM) ORG will meet to discuss Ruth Millikan's 1989 paper in the Journal of Philosophy, "Biosemantics": doi.org/10.2307/2027...

No ORG this Fri. Returning 5/8 10AM EST to discuss @hannesbajohr.de's "Surface Reading LLMs: Synthetic Text & Its Styles": ...attending to style as a semiotic phenomenon reveals LLMs as cultural machines that transform the conditions of meaning emergence and circulation..." arxiv.org/pdf/2510.22162

Next week (4/24 10AM EST) ORG will carry on with the SubStance special issue on Simondon, discussing @digitalobjects.bsky.social's contribution, "Tendency and Intuition in Simondon's "Genesis of Technicity" substance.org/article/tend...

Tendency and Intuition in Simondon's "Genesis of Technicity" - Substance Journal

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Next week (4/17 10AM) ORG carries on its investigation of Simondon's analogical perspective, reading Audrey Wasser's contribution to the @hopkinspress.bsky.social SubStance special issue on Simondon, "Mutatis mutandis; or, Analogy and Justification in Simondon's System" doi.org/10.1353/sub....

ORG returns on 4/10 10AM after a one-week hiatus, to discuss @jasontuckwell.bsky.social's 2025 piece "On a Simondonian Theory of Signification at the Limits of Language and Information", published in the recent "In the Light of Simondon" special issue of SubStance substance.org/article/on-a...

On a Simondonian Theory of Signification at the Limits of Language and Information - Substance Journal

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Next week (3/27 10AM EST), ORG will discuss @lukestark.bsky.social's 2023 article in BJHS Themes, titled "Artificial intelligence and the conjectural sciences" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This Friday (3/20 10AM) ORG will discuss Clemens Apprich's 2025 article "Learning How to Learn: Abduction as the ‘Missing Link’ in Machine Learning", published in the recent Situated Bayes special issue of Computational Culture. computationalculture.net/learning-how... orcid.org/0000-0002-76...

Next week (3/13 10AM), ORG will discuss Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen's recent article in AI & Society, "Human languaging and large language models" doi.org/10.1007/s001...

Human languaging and large language models - AI & SOCIETY

This paper explores the interplay between human languaging and AI-powered language models from the view of the distributed language perspective (DLP). According to this perspective, human linguistic a...

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Next week (2/27 10AM) ORG will discuss Ningxiang Sun's recent article in @theoryculturesociety.org , "Towards an Ecology of Time: Revisiting Simondon’s Genetic Method" journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Next week (2/20 10AM EST) ORG will discuss Davide Picca's @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social preprint, Not Minds, but Signs: Reframing LLMs through Semiotics. The paper "challenges the prevailing tendency to frame LLMs as cognitive systems, arguing instead for a semiotic perspective" arxiv.org/abs/2505.17080

Not Minds, but Signs: Reframing LLMs through Semiotics

This paper challenges the prevailing tendency to frame Large Language Models (LLMs) as cognitive systems, arguing instead for a semiotic perspective that situates these models within the broader dynam...

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Next Friday (2/13 10AM) ORG will conclude its discussion of Vilém Flusser's 1987 book, Does Writing Have a Future? We will read from "Scripts" to "Subscript" and the brief Afterword. www.upress.umn.edu/978081667023...

Does Writing Have a Future?

In Does Writing Have a Future?, a remarkably perceptive work first published in German in 1987, Vilém Flusser asks what will happen to thought and communica...

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Next Friday (2/6 10AM) ORG will carry on discussing the next five entries (from "Books" to "Desks") of Vilém Flusser's 1987 book, Does Writing Have a Future? www.upress.umn.edu/978081667023...

Does Writing Have a Future?

In Does Writing Have a Future?, a remarkably perceptive work first published in German in 1987, Vilém Flusser asks what will happen to thought and communica...

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The Faculty of Information at @utoronto.ca remembers Brian Cantwell Smith's remarkable life and contributions to philosophy and computation. He will be deeply missed: bit.ly/49roA74 We're honored to bring his final book project, "Computational Reflections," to readers in May: bit.ly/4sFDlux

Obituary: Brian Cantwell Smith (1950 to 2025) - Faculty of Information

Former dean wove philosophy and computation into a lifelong inquiry into the human dimensions of intelligence, judgment, and meaning Born into a prominent Canadian family known for both its…

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