I am planting this link as an aide memoire to reflect as there are references that I do not have current access to on updating Walter Benjamin, technology, and art.
The Work of Art in the Age of AI by Howard Eiland.
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Elsewhere on the web
Resisting training for AI
I have just come across Mark Marino’s first post on resistance training for AI that strikes me as useful: Resistance Training: teaching with and against AI (part 1).
Weeknotes
A crazy week. I had a workshop with the Centre for Digital Inquiry and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at Warwick about Leviathan’s Ear. The project and YouTube stream are available. I am not a screen god. I began work on identifying the challenges for the App Studies workshop that will need to be written […]
Weeknotes – Plugins and bits
I spent some of this week working on Gephi plugins. After a conversation with a colleague, I started porting the Image Preview plugin to the latest version. I thought of doing this earlier this year, but no direct need. I did use some AI help for some of the Java an the port. Next up […]
Debugging Gephi Plugin Builds
This post is mainly a note to self. I have recently been porting an old Gephi plugin to run on Gephi 0.11.1 that required quite a lot of work, searching, and a little AI augmentation to resolve some issues that were out of my experience. One of the challenges was that the package would occasionally […]
Weeknotes – App Histories and bits
A long couple of weeks. The main task for this week has been to develop the App Histories toolkit and begin updating the documentation as well. It now needs some testing and beginning to use it for some actual work. Next steps will be to develop some tools to interact with the data, but I […]
Rethinking Digital Culture: Lev Manovich interview
I found this interview from PRCarnet World with Lev Manovich that I thought was interesting.
New work on a Critical Code Study of Audio
I am presenting a paper at King’s College London next month (June 2026) and have posted the repository as Audio CCS for now. I am hoping that this will become a touch larger. For now it is just the initial data and templates.
Weeknotes – From apps to sound
Software tasks for this week have focused on a new project tracing AI in mobile applications. This is part of a fellowship project to develop a wider toolkit for app studies to run on High Performance Computers. While I have an existing toolkit, it is designed for laptops or High Throughput processes. The current project […]
Marks and Notations in Joshua Steele
I was reading Mary Beard’s Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old (Profile Books, London, 2026) through curiosity about why learn the classics and as an exercise in reading. I did Latin at school many years ago and have forgotten a fair amount. However, she discusses the use of diacritics in the production of Greek […]
