Humanities in the time of AI
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If humanistic research consists of the generation of consensus positions, simple expression, summarized texts, or passable translations, then we have arrived at the place where AI is able to accomplish these different missions to a convincing degree. However, Laurent Dubreuil argues, such tasks do not, in any way, constitute the humanities. On the contrary, he posits, a(...)
Humanities in the time of AI
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If humanistic research consists of the generation of consensus positions, simple expression, summarized texts, or passable translations, then we have arrived at the place where AI is able to accomplish these different missions to a convincing degree. However, Laurent Dubreuil argues, such tasks do not, in any way, constitute the humanities. On the contrary, he posits, a maximalist take on scholarship would not focus on generation but on creation, as a subject and as an object. Dubreuil seizes the opportunity of what AI reveals about the meaning of humanistic inquiry to offer a path for the renewal of the humanities on transhistorical, transcultural, and transdisciplinary grounds.
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"Archiving machines" advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data and the cultures of information that have led to platforms that assert control over its use. Amelia Acker examines the origins of data archives and the computing processes of storage, exchange, and transmission.(...)
Archiving machines: From punch cards to platforms
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"Archiving machines" advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data and the cultures of information that have led to platforms that assert control over its use. Amelia Acker examines the origins of data archives and the computing processes of storage, exchange, and transmission. Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty we experience today: from magnetic tape and timesharing computer models from the 1950s, to the establishment of data banks and the rise of database processing and managed data silos in the 1970s, to file structures and virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 years.
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As cultural heritage institutions across the nation grapple with the realization that their collecting histories have captured an incomplete picture of history, curators and archivists like Dorothy Berry have been drawn into complicated conversations. "The house archives built and other thoughts on Black archival possibilities" brings together years of those conversations(...)
The house archives built and other thoughts on Black archival possibilities
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As cultural heritage institutions across the nation grapple with the realization that their collecting histories have captured an incomplete picture of history, curators and archivists like Dorothy Berry have been drawn into complicated conversations. "The house archives built and other thoughts on Black archival possibilities" brings together years of those conversations from their origins in conference halls, webinars, and reading rooms to open them up to the public. The labor and theory that upholds archives has been obscured, but our understandings of history and ourselves rest on those invisible foundations. This book clarifies those foundations while offering new possibilities for imagining archival futures in and outside of institutional holdings.
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À l’heure où nos traces numériques s’accumulent, une nouvelle forme de mémoire émerge. Les technomémoires désignent ces formes hybrides que nous construisons à travers les plateformes numériques et les objets connectés. Des albums photos enrichis par l’intelligence artificielle aux assistants qui mémorisent nos habitudes, des médias socionumériques qui stockent nos(...)
janvier 2026
Technomémoires : mémoire, souvenirs et technologies émergentes
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À l’heure où nos traces numériques s’accumulent, une nouvelle forme de mémoire émerge. Les technomémoires désignent ces formes hybrides que nous construisons à travers les plateformes numériques et les objets connectés. Des albums photos enrichis par l’intelligence artificielle aux assistants qui mémorisent nos habitudes, des médias socionumériques qui stockent nos interactions aux objets connectés qui documentent nos comportements quotidiens, un nouvel écosystème mémoriel se dessine. Ce livre en explore les contours à travers trois axes?: la mémoire collective ancrée dans les territoires et les objets?; les pratiques personnelles façonnées par nos interactions numériques?; et les perspectives ouvertes par l’intelligence artificielle dans la gestion – et la fabrication – de nos souvenirs. Il s’adresse aux spécialistes de la mémoire et des médias, aux personnes étudiantes en sciences humaines et sociales, ainsi qu’au grand public curieux de comprendre ce que signifie se souvenir au XXIe siècle, à l’ère des machines qui «?se remémorent?»… supposément mieux que nous.
Le livre et la bibliothèque: La quête des savoirs et de la culture, mélanges offerts à Marcel Laje
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Cet ouvrage présente le livre et la bibliothèque comme objet et lieu privilégiés où s’incarne la quête des savoirs et de la culture. Qu’on pense en mode analogique ou numérique, le livre et la bibliothèque ne sont-ils pas les meilleurs moyens de répondre au besoin essentiel que nous avons tous de connaître, de savoir, de nous développer?? Le livre comme support de la(...)
février 2023
Le livre et la bibliothèque: La quête des savoirs et de la culture, mélanges offerts à Marcel Laje
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Cet ouvrage présente le livre et la bibliothèque comme objet et lieu privilégiés où s’incarne la quête des savoirs et de la culture. Qu’on pense en mode analogique ou numérique, le livre et la bibliothèque ne sont-ils pas les meilleurs moyens de répondre au besoin essentiel que nous avons tous de connaître, de savoir, de nous développer?? Le livre comme support de la connaissance et la bibliothèque comme milieu de recherche du savoir ont fourni de tout temps une contribution importante à l’apprentissage, à la progression, bref à l’évolution de l’être humain. L’ouvrage que nous proposons aborde ce vaste terrain de réflexion dans une approche nationale et internationale avec un regard historique, actuel et tourné vers l’avenir.
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This critical anthology addresses three often-overlooked issues facing archival organizations: the question of inclusion in or exclusion from the archive; the loss of individuality and specificity in the archive; the danger of homogenization; and the risk that archiving may foster a form of pigeonholing. Since the archive is a fundamental symbolic entity, on the basis of(...)
Productive archiving: Artistic strategies, future memories & fluid identities
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This critical anthology addresses three often-overlooked issues facing archival organizations: the question of inclusion in or exclusion from the archive; the loss of individuality and specificity in the archive; the danger of homogenization; and the risk that archiving may foster a form of pigeonholing. Since the archive is a fundamental symbolic entity, on the basis of which we organize our lives, the past, the present and the future, these issues require exploration. ''Productive archiving'' proposes that artistic treatments of (and interventions in) archives can offer innovative ways to foster new connections and ways of thinking and organizing.
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Print on demand has revolutionized publishing. Digital printing and online platforms such as Blurb, Lulu and Kindle Direct Publishing allow anyone to publish work immediately and without financial risk, opening up spaces beyond the trade book world and ostensibly democratizing production. Today an entire subculture is exploring print on demand in search of new economies(...)
septembre 2025
Library of artistic print on demand: Post-digital publishing in times of platform capitalism
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Print on demand has revolutionized publishing. Digital printing and online platforms such as Blurb, Lulu and Kindle Direct Publishing allow anyone to publish work immediately and without financial risk, opening up spaces beyond the trade book world and ostensibly democratizing production. Today an entire subculture is exploring print on demand in search of new economies and publics, while also critically negotiating our digital present. "The Library of Artistic Print on Demand" maps this experimental field for the first time, exploring its global spread, history, contradictions and political relevance through writings from international publishers and authors.
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A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour. What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest ''to solve intelligence,'' a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its complex neural(...)
The eye of the master: A social history of artificial intelligence
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A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour. What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest ''to solve intelligence,'' a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in its complex neural networks. ''The eye of the master'' argues, to the contrary, that the inner code of AI is shaped not by the imitation of biological intelligence, but the intelligence of labour and social relations, as it is found in Babbage's ''calculating engines'' of the industrial age as well as in the recent algorithms for image recognition and surveillance. The idea that AI may one day become autonomous (or ''sentient'', as someone thought of Google's LaMDA) is pure fantasy. Computer algorithms have always imitated the form of social relations and the organisation of labour in their own inner structure and their purpose remains blind automation. ''The eye of the master'' urges a new literacy on AI for scientists, journalists and new generations of activists, who should recognise that the ''mystery'' of AI is just the automation of labour at the highest degree, not intelligence per se.
The specter of the archive: Political practice and the information state in early modern Britain
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In ''The Specter of the Archive'', Nicholas Popper shows that earlier eras had to grapple with the same problem—how to deal with too much information at their fingertips. He reveals that early modern Britain was a society newly drowning in paper, a light and durable technology whose spread allowed statesmen to record drafts, memoranda, and other ephemera that might(...)
The specter of the archive: Political practice and the information state in early modern Britain
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In ''The Specter of the Archive'', Nicholas Popper shows that earlier eras had to grapple with the same problem—how to deal with too much information at their fingertips. He reveals that early modern Britain was a society newly drowning in paper, a light and durable technology whose spread allowed statesmen to record drafts, memoranda, and other ephemera that might otherwise have been lost, and also made it possible for ordinary people to collect political texts. As original paperwork and copies alike flooded the government, information management became the core of politics. Focusing on two of the primary political archives of early modern England, the Tower of London Record Office and the State Paper Office, Popper traces the circulation of their materials through the government and the broader public sphere.
On the digital humanities
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Since its inception, the digital humanities has been repeatedly attacked as a threat to the humanities: warnings from literary and cultural theorists of technology overtaking English departments and the mechanization of teaching have peppered popular media. Stephen Ramsay’s ''On the digital humanities'', a collection of essays spanning the personal to the polemic, is a(...)
On the digital humanities
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Since its inception, the digital humanities has been repeatedly attacked as a threat to the humanities: warnings from literary and cultural theorists of technology overtaking English departments and the mechanization of teaching have peppered popular media. Stephen Ramsay’s ''On the digital humanities'', a collection of essays spanning the personal to the polemic, is a spirited defense of the field of digital humanities. A founding figure in what was once known as 'humanities computing,' Ramsay has a well-known and contentious relationship with what is now called the digital humanities (DH). Here Ramsay collects and updates his most influential and notorious essays and speeches from the past fifteen years, considering DH from an array of practical and theoretical perspectives. The essays pursue a broad variety of themes, including the nature of data and its place in more conventional notions of text and interpretation, the relationship between the constraints of computation and the more open-ended nature of the humanities, the positioning of practical skills and infrastructures in both research and pedagogical contexts, the status of DH as a program for political and social action, and personal reflections on the author’s journey into the field as both a theorist and a technologist. These wide-ranging essays all center around one idea: that DH not forsake its connection to the humanities. While 'digital humanities' may sound like an entirely new form of engagement with the artifacts of human culture, Ramsay argues that the field well reveals what is most essential to humanistic inquiry.