Jeffrey Kirkwood
@JeffreyKirkwood
Media theory, art history professor
Wait till knowing how to read, like low-rise jeans makes a huge comeback in 20 years
we should also include in the YA category novels that read like what unbearable teenage boys might imagine as difficult literary books
Lord, please grant me the will to finish the last 100 pages of this flabby, adolescent Cartarescu novel
Rereading Adolf Loos simply wowed at what a dumb founding document of euro modernism this is. Mfer is talking seriously about not liking animal crackers bc they’re shaped like animals
langdon winner panned neil young's after the gold rush in rolling stone, apparently
There's something deep in this about how the vast array of different kinds of models we use to conceive of the ways things relate to one another cannot be reduced to statistical relationships
AI can't figure out the inverse square law looking at 10M solar systems, Newton figured it out looking at 1
I wrote about the 13th Berlin Biennale for @e_flux e-flux.com/criticism/6782…
Indiana has just committed apocalyptic multi-generational damage to it's universities. How sad to see IU, which had long been a public beacon, turned to nothing forbes.com/sites/michaelt…
Huge thanks to @wluers for a beautiful and deep review of my book Endless Intervals for @ebrbark electronicbookreview.com/essay/a-review… @UMinnPress
Many have already said much the same but no Hans Blix, yellow cake, Colin Powell, or coalition of the willing to even contrive the appearance of legitimacy
All day I just hear michael barbaro going “mmmmmmmm” whenever someone dumps on the nytimes editorial
If every targeted ad were like this Suhrkamp collected works of Bernhard from gray to black I’d willingly submit to the powers of the algorithms
The next college sports scandal will be U Michigan hiring a private surveillance company to find out what ChatGPT prompts Ohio State is using to run their offense
it lives! official publication date June 24, pre-orders now - more to come about Language Machines @UMinnPress upress.umn.edu/9781517919320/…
Close reading, distant reading, oblique reading, just hold the book regular already
What if, just what if LRMs can be said to really be approaching thought bc they're doing the most human thing ever: they're getting lazy then giving up
For all of the Russian novels I’ve read reading Sorokin makes me realize more than anything that I have absolutely no idea what is going on in Russia
the question of genre captures their problem. they're entirely empirical pretending transcendence
These systems are genre machines - good at capturing overall style (in this case, blurrily, New-Yorker-ese) but incapable of eliminating local error (repetitions of “precocious” most egregious here). wd not succeed at a mag but resembles the style of a mag - that’s where we are