If anyone for some reason is looking for a review essay assignment on #petroleum, #shipping, #capitalism, Mah's Petrochemical Planet would go well with Oil Beach and Negative Ecologies by David Bond.

@academicchatter @geography #Anthropology #STS

Die letzten Tage des Sommers nutzen für ein offenes Berliner INSIST / #STS Community Meeting. Wer Lust hat: am 13.9.23 um 19 Uhr treffen wir uns im Schleusenkrug (https://www.schleusenkrug.de/ Nähe Bahnhof Zoo) auf ein Feierabendgetränk zum informellen Austausch. Kommt gerne vorbei!

@stsing #STSing #INSIST

I'm listening to #semiconductor managers during the vast industry conference #semicon in Taipei. It's quite astonishing how companies can point at their (scope-ed) emissions, calling for swift change, and "stepping left" or "back" to redesign. #NetZero at the horizon yet far away. Mackenzie not playing around.

But the sustainability event where this is happening is detached from the 3500 booths arouns. The scope accounting feels off. Exhaust gas?, like the main source of emission.

#sts

#AI #STS #CriticalAI #Algorithms #Automation #Capitalism #Marxism: "Matteo Pasquinelli’s The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence offers a compelling new perspective on the nature of artificial intelligence (AI). The author situates the recent development of AI in a longer history of attempts to automate work activities already in the Industrial Age, noting that current AI systems have an old pedigree prior to modern computers. This history, the author claims, extends into the distant past where algorithms were already embodied in ancient rituals to transmit knowledge and skills. By situating AI in a historical perspective, Pasquinelli urges a substantive rethinking of the nature of artificial intelligence and calls for a fresh approach to meeting the challenges and recognizing the opportunities posed by this technology.

Pasquinelli’s central thesis is that AI does not emerge by replicating human intelligence, but from encoding human activities into repeatable procedures – algorithms. In other words, the true basis of AI appears not as an attempt to create a thinking machine, but as the latest iteration of the algorithmic modeling of social practices. Pasquinelli asks, “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. In this book I argue, to the contrary, that the inner code of AI is constituted not by the imitation of biological intelligence but by the intelligence of labour and social relations” (p. 2). He reframes our understanding of AI primarily as a technological entity to its reflection of human practices and social forces."
https://mediatheoryjournal.org/review-matteo-pasquinellis-the-eye-of-the-master-reviewed-by-alex-levant/

ICAO: A62312
Flt: N495EC #CMH-#STS
First seen: 2023/09/04 19:00:01
Min Alt: 3007 ft AGL
Min Dist: 6.22 mi

Planefence by kx1t - docker:kx1t/planefence
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Is anyone on Mastodon also at the Asisst-UK conference???? Trying to find my folks!! #STS

ICAO: #A6844D
Flt: #EJA519 #NetJets #STS-#IAD
First seen: 2023/09/04 17:39:19
Min Alt: 5000 ft MSL
Min Dist: 1.96 nm

#planefence #adsb - https://planefence.com
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@nicole_c_nelson what is #STS?

#job We are hiring! Engineering Ethics in Society at CU Boulder is looking for a full-time Teaching Assistant Professor in Hist of/Sci/Med/Tech or STS. https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Teaching-Assistant-Professor-in-the-Herbst-Program-for-Engineering-Ethics-and-Society-Science-and-Technology/50799. I'm chairing the committee. Please get in touch with questions. #sts #histodons #historyofscience #historyoftechnology

I'm back in n Taipei #Taiwan for an #sts conference (and research). We are talking global scale-making.

Currently listening to an inspiring lecture on energy histories and the example of an open pit mine in Fushun, southern Taiwan, by Victor Seow. This is also a lesson in critical #energy studies, destructivism, colonialism, life in the ruins, but also limits of the energy lens.

@sts @ecologies

I am happy to announce my reappointment as programme director of the #MSc programme #Philosophy of #Science , #Technology , and #Society at @utwente . Three more years to train the next generation of #Philosophy and #STS scholars.

ICAO: #A52B1F
Flt: #LXJ432 #BombardierBusinessJetSolutions #STS-#ONT
First seen: 2023/08/31 14:25:01
Min Alt: 4650 ft MSL
Min Dist: 1.45 nm

#planefence #adsb - https://planefence.com
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And here is the link to the presentation that I gave at the #STSCH Conference:

https://julsraemy.ch/prezi/sts-ch-2023.html

#iiif #loud #linkedart

Ping and mention to these people that help me bridge #digitalhumanities #linkedopendata and #STS:

1) Guillem, Anaïs & Gros, Antoine, & Deluca, Livio through this article: https://hal.science/hal-04106101

2) Hacıgüzeller, Piraye & Taylor, James Stuart & Perry, Sara for this work: https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2020-0220

3) @lozross and Di Franco, Karen for this: https://www.artic.edu/digital-publications/37/perspectives-on-data/28/iterative-pasts-and-linked-futures

Recommended reading:

"The Sisyphean Cycle of Technology Panics" by Amy Orben

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1745691620919372

#STS #Sociology #Commodon #MediaStudies

I was this morning in Geneva for #libreABC when I had the chance to see again colleagues and friends from libraries and archives.

This afternoon I am back in Basel for the STS-CH 2023 Conference where I will present how interlinked cultural heritage data is situated on the web, more with an anthropological perspective - a form of speaking that I am still learning #STS.

NB: It really feels like today is two whole days in one.

Hey #SoundStudies people--

We now have a group tool, @soundstudies

For the first post, here's the Sounds of the Forest Map: https://timberfestival.org.uk/soundsoftheforest-soundmap/

#Sound #SoundArt #EnvHum #STS #MediaStudies #CulturalStudies

cc @acousticmirror @joshshepperd @mistertim

Sure, let's make more announcements at 8:30pm on a Tuesday night, why not.

Hey, people! I'm on the editorial board of #Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, and we are seeking submissions. Please think about putting something in if you are an academic, artist, or ghastly hybrid working on #sound #SoundStudies #SoundArt

https://online.ucpress.edu/res/pages/About

@academicchatter #CulturalStudies @ecologies #Histodons #STS #Commodon #MediaStudies

With the danger that "AI could choke on its own exhaust as it fills the web" (per an article someone just shared), it feels like we are back to Adrian Johns' argument that, no, it wasn't the printing press (i.e. technology/distribution infra) that allowed knowledge to flourish but rather *an elaborate sociotechnical system of trust and authority*...

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo3645773.html

#Commodon #STS #Histodons

I've created a new key memo in our Obsidian vault. It synthesises many existing notes and describes how our studied data centre site in Germany is related to production networks in Asia-Pacific. In fact, the network view helped me explore and theorize relations.

But it's a real danger that such a view indicates finished research or fixed notions. It's worth reflecting on the performativity of such a tool. Reminds me of Gephi issues. @sociology @sts

#Obsidian #Zettelkasten #sociology #sts

Anyone know good #sts or #sociology work on the seivert and/or REM as units of measurement? I just found out they're estimated risk units and I'm suddenly fascinated.