director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; resigned full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, šØ, cities, š, infrastructure, libraries, šŗļø, sound++
nyc + upstate
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Shannon Mattern
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Rebranding a hallucination as a ācritical confabulationā that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.
I know there was a stray banana in a recent show at Amant, but I canāt find my picture!
This whole SpaceX thing makes me ill.
"Richter has already shown us... how to keep our grip amid out-of-control image overproduction. He has modeled for us how to look seriously, and create legitimately, when the image is in perpetual question... He insisted that individual doubt could be the wellspring of a new mode of vision."
Maybe Iām simply attuned to it, but Iāve encountered ā and enjoyed ā several recent exhibitions featuring fruit: sometimes as focus, sometimes as garnish. Here: a random pear in āStatics of an Eggā at David Zwirner
Apples and eggs in Alvaro Urbanoās show from last summer
can we talk about how this admin spends so much time saying 'whoa whoa whoa a policy is NOT illegal just bc it has a disparate impact on Black people' and at the same time is like
'whoa whoa whoa a school has Black students? must be an illegal admissions policy!'
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Six years ago I published a book that engaged machine learning in terms of the politics of text, language & the impossibility of definitive authorship. Are any of the men writing now on LLMs, authorship, and text citing my 2020 work?ā¦. No, reader, they are not.
Peter Whitewood
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imagine drawing a crowd in the middle of the night to watch them remove your name from a building
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD
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Finally, this administration has identified a form of ādisparate impactā it finds objectionable.
Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon: "What CUNY is doing is disproportionately favoring African American men and students in general, and this is illegal. They could lose funds."
