Robin

phd candidate @ berkeley rhetoric // editor @ qui parle // cybernetics in intellectual history, post-kantian philosophy & media theory

[Robin @_robinmanley]

structuralism is back baby!!

[Sergey Karayev @sergeykarayev]

AI research is converging on a major finding: language models are a great substrate for all AI applications.

This feels like a HUGE deal.

Some examples:

[jonathan mackris @feuilladist]

East Bay friends: in two weeks, some friends in the history department at UC Berkeley are organizing a walking tour of the city discussing its role in the history of policing. Not to be missed! RSVP here: https://t.co/QXZ5xw7ZFY

[Robin @_robinmanley]

@matthiasellis https://t.co/E2sLF7yvqc

[Robin @_robinmanley]

The CfP is on our website here~~

https://t.co/E2sLF7yvqc

[Robin @_robinmanley]

Qui Parle is inviting submissions for a special issue on renovations of humanism and new directions in the thematic of the subject. Please consider submitting, and share widely! I am coediting the issue, and would be happy to answer any questions.

[Robin @_robinmanley]

interdisciplinary research dares to ask: what if a scholar was well read

[Diabetic of Enlightenment @dee_of_e]

hell world

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

The @ProgIntl calls on movements, parties and unions to organize not just in defence of this Flotilla but in defence of humanity itself. It is our collective responsibility to break the siege and liberate Palestine from colonial occupation.

[Spectre Journal @JournalSpectre]

Karen Ng on species being in Hegel and Marx.

https://t.co/Ix6xnjBCLC

[Antinomy 🚩📚 @Gattungswesen25]

Oh my God, Karen Ng is cooking!!!

[no earthquake (ear flu victim) @no_earthquake]

if anything we gotta make the world less enchanted

[Erik Baker @erikmbaker]

I've said before that STS essentially installed commodity fetishism as its dominant methodological principle in the 90s and the field's response to generative AI has given me no reason to revise that conclusion

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

Foucault’s Anti-Nietzschean Reading of History: https://t.co/uItIf6wN1E

[Sam Adler-Bell @SamAdlerBell]

the fact that Silicon Valley reactionaries and "supply side progressives" (abundance bros) were responding to the same perceived impasse and swimming in the same currents was obvious to me back in 2022. https://t.co/SV8hr63Fs9

[Robin @_robinmanley]

available at the link below, open access~
https://t.co/KRdnNYrD0a

[Robin @_robinmanley]

tossing this out once more: my attempt to demonstrate that Foucault seriously misrepresents Nietzsche's philosophy of history in his account of genealogy. perhaps of interest to Foucault people, as well as those in lit/media studies thinking about historicism & its limits!

[Robin @_robinmanley]

and second from Borges:

[Robin @_robinmanley]

have you ever thought: I don't know Foucault, maybe knowledge isn't only for cutting? or: I'm not sure it's true that Nietzsche has different concepts of origin in the preface to the Genealogy of Morals? you might be interested in my new article, open access from @TCSjournalSAGE

[Robin @_robinmanley]

i'll even toss in some relevant ephemera to sweeten the deal. first from Beatrice Han-Pile's incredible book on Foucault:

[Theory, Culture & Society @TCSjournalSAGE]

New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Robin Manley, 'The Disunity in Genealogy: Foucault’s Anti-Nietzschean Reading of History'. (Open Access) https://t.co/YvhMc46UDE