Jeffrey West Kirkwood
@jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social
Media theory, art history professor
Books:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517912543/endless-intervals/
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517902261/elements-of-a-philosophy-of-technology/
Surplus data: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ci/2022/48/
Books:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517912543/endless-intervals/
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517902261/elements-of-a-philosophy-of-technology/
Surplus data: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ci/2022/48/
Binghamton is again hiring TT profs across the humanities, including in art history (my department) binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
binghamton.interviewexchange.com
September 18, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Binghamton is again hiring TT profs across the humanities, including in art history (my department) binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
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Next week (7/10 10AM EDT), ORG will discuss the Introduction to @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social's 2022 @uminnpress.bsky.social book, Endless Intervals.
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791254...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791254...
Endless Intervals
Revealing cinema’s place in the coevolution of media technology and the humanCinema did not die with the digital, it gave rise to it. According to Jeffrey ...
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July 3, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Next week (7/10 10AM EDT), ORG will discuss the Introduction to @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social's 2022 @uminnpress.bsky.social book, Endless Intervals.
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791254...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791254...
Reposted by Jeffrey West Kirkwood
with contributions from, among others: @adamwickberg.bsky.social @vagt.bsky.social @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @moritzhiller.bsky.social @sebergerj.bsky.social
![Contents
Introduction: The New Real 9
Benedikt Merkle and Bernhard Siegert
R E C K O N I N G W I T H W I N D A N D W E A T H E R
[ 1 ] Times of the Weather: Seasons of the Real Angelika Seppi
33
[ 2 ] Wind: An Environmental Data Stack 53
Jussi Parikka
[ 3 ] Modeling the Earth: Operative Images, Machine Learning,
and Weather Prediction 71
Eva-Maria Gillich
E N V I R O N I N G M E D I A
[ 4 ] Atmospheric Signals, Tubed 91
Christoph Rosol
[ 5 ] Reckoning with the Ocean: The Disconnect Between the
Digital Transition and Marine Sustainability 111
Adam Wickberg and Susanna Lidström
[ 6 ] Contract Time: Or How to do Things with Units Anna Echterhölter
127
T H E S Y M B O L I C A N D T H E R E A L
[ 7 ] Forgetful Functor: Or How to Write the Real Christina Vagt
147
[ 8 ] Linguistic Arbitrage: AI and the Financialization of Language Jeffrey West Kirkwood](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:slvghcu3ve7kxtey5uigrjdq/bafkreifgwe6r2gi5z4kwcqkiia7ryhatr2jbaqoteuk7htedpneyvkg7ui)
![[ 9 ] The Infrastructural Unconscious: Do Computers Dream of
Carbo-Silico Pipelines? 183
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
[ 10 ] Turing Incompleteness: Reckoning with Loss in Digital
Computation 203
Moritz Hiller
L I F E - W O R L D S O F C O M P U T A T I O N
[ 11 ] Dead Time and Lifeworld: The Present Tense of Ubicomp Bernhard Siegert
217
[ 12 ] Reckoning with Intimacy: A Recent History of Intimate
Computing 233
Benedikt Merkle
[ 13 ] Interaction with the Vampire 251
John S. Seberger
C O D A
[ 14 ] What Computers Want 269
Geoffrey C. Bowker
Authors 283](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:slvghcu3ve7kxtey5uigrjdq/bafkreic6u27ugxivvy2iu2pxdwxbolawzbh53xumibvtph3uuochkzs3au)
June 6, 2026 at 2:29 PM
with contributions from, among others: @adamwickberg.bsky.social @vagt.bsky.social @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @moritzhiller.bsky.social @sebergerj.bsky.social
Reposted by Jeffrey West Kirkwood
Reposted by Jeffrey West Kirkwood
New chapter on ocean digitalization and governance out in volume edited by Bernhard Siegert, alongside great essays by Jussi Parikka, Geoffrey Bowker, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social and others
meson.press/books/reckon...
meson.press/books/reckon...
Reckoning with Everything. The Becoming-Environmental of Computing › meson press
Computation must and has always had to “reckon with everything.” This volume brings together contributions that seek to describe the environmentality of computation based on selected settings.
meson.press
February 16, 2026 at 5:57 AM
New chapter on ocean digitalization and governance out in volume edited by Bernhard Siegert, alongside great essays by Jussi Parikka, Geoffrey Bowker, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social and others
meson.press/books/reckon...
meson.press/books/reckon...
Coming up in 2 weeks at the University of Chicago
February 13, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Coming up in 2 weeks at the University of Chicago
My new text on parallel processing and the financial nature of AI is online open source (along with a bunch of other killer texts) in the new volume Reckoning with Everything edited by Bernhard Siegert and Benedikt Merkle for Meson Press meson.press/books/reckon...
Reckoning with Everything. The Becoming-Environmental of Computing › meson press
Computation must and has always had to “reckon with everything.” This volume brings together contributions that seek to describe the environmentality of computation based on selected settings.
meson.press
February 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM
My new text on parallel processing and the financial nature of AI is online open source (along with a bunch of other killer texts) in the new volume Reckoning with Everything edited by Bernhard Siegert and Benedikt Merkle for Meson Press meson.press/books/reckon...
Reposted by Jeffrey West Kirkwood
a student has alerted me to the fact that Andreesen Horowitz is citing Fredric Jameson in its newsletters a16z.com/prediction-t...
Prediction: the successor to postmodernism | Andreessen Horowitz
Prediction is emerging as the defining framework beyond postmodernism — reshaping business models, technology adoption, and cultural trends. Explore how AI, prediction markets, and speculation are dri...
a16z.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
a student has alerted me to the fact that Andreesen Horowitz is citing Fredric Jameson in its newsletters a16z.com/prediction-t...
SUNY Binghamton just substantially increased stipends for grad students and we have several fully-funded PhD spots in art history. Pretty sure our endowment is smaller more our placement record is great
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
SUNY Binghamton just substantially increased stipends for grad students and we have several fully-funded PhD spots in art history. Pretty sure our endowment is smaller more our placement record is great
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
TT job alert. My department is hiring an assistant professor in architectural history and urban studies in any geographical area, post-500 CE binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
binghamton.interviewexchange.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
TT job alert. My department is hiring an assistant professor in architectural history and urban studies in any geographical area, post-500 CE binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
I wrote about the 13th Berlin Biennale for @eflux.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/criticism/67...
- Criticism - e-flux
The terms for the 13th Berlin Biennale are set out in the first room of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art. On display is Armin Linke
www.e-flux.com
July 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I wrote about the 13th Berlin Biennale for @eflux.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/criticism/67...
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@jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social, your book flipped my thinking about machines and humans in so many ways. An important history to prepare us for the coming AI disruptions.
Delighted to read the excellent review by @wluers.bsky.social of my book Endless Intervals in @electronicbook electronicbookreview.com/essay/a-revi...
@uminnpress.bsky.social
@uminnpress.bsky.social
A Review of Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 by Jeffrey West Kirkwood
We take for granted the layers of mechanized intervals that shape contemporary experience, just as we overlook the gaps between letters, words, and sentences when we read. We get from here to there wh...
electronicbookreview.com
June 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
@jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social, your book flipped my thinking about machines and humans in so many ways. An important history to prepare us for the coming AI disruptions.
Delighted to read the excellent review by @wluers.bsky.social of my book Endless Intervals in @electronicbook electronicbookreview.com/essay/a-revi...
@uminnpress.bsky.social
@uminnpress.bsky.social
A Review of Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 by Jeffrey West Kirkwood
We take for granted the layers of mechanized intervals that shape contemporary experience, just as we overlook the gaps between letters, words, and sentences when we read. We get from here to there wh...
electronicbookreview.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Delighted to read the excellent review by @wluers.bsky.social of my book Endless Intervals in @electronicbook electronicbookreview.com/essay/a-revi...
@uminnpress.bsky.social
@uminnpress.bsky.social
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I can’t wait to be in one of my favourite places, Rome, to speak at this conference at the Bibliotheca Hertziana. I will present an argument for a transcendental philosophy of computation.
My abstract is the pic below, and full programme is here: www.biblhertz.it/events/41601...
@bhmpi.bsky.social
My abstract is the pic below, and full programme is here: www.biblhertz.it/events/41601...
@bhmpi.bsky.social
April 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I can’t wait to be in one of my favourite places, Rome, to speak at this conference at the Bibliotheca Hertziana. I will present an argument for a transcendental philosophy of computation.
My abstract is the pic below, and full programme is here: www.biblhertz.it/events/41601...
@bhmpi.bsky.social
My abstract is the pic below, and full programme is here: www.biblhertz.it/events/41601...
@bhmpi.bsky.social
My grad seminar for next semester is set to be banger
April 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
My grad seminar for next semester is set to be banger
spacex, twitter, and tesla stock share one important feature: they're crashing
March 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
spacex, twitter, and tesla stock share one important feature: they're crashing
Found the vp’s tailor
February 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Found the vp’s tailor
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We are saddened to learn that artist Rutherford Chang has passed away. In 2004, Rutherford proposed a spectacular poster for our “Average” issue: The New York Times’s front page with every section’s words cut out (by hand!) and reordered alphabetically.
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/15/ch...
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/15/ch...
Artist Project / Poster Insert: Alphabetized Newspaper | Rutherford Chang
Edition late
www.cabinetmagazine.org
February 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
We are saddened to learn that artist Rutherford Chang has passed away. In 2004, Rutherford proposed a spectacular poster for our “Average” issue: The New York Times’s front page with every section’s words cut out (by hand!) and reordered alphabetically.
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/15/ch...
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/15/ch...
Sometimes I wonder how a robot would feel encountering this when simply trying to catch up on lit in the humanities
February 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Sometimes I wonder how a robot would feel encountering this when simply trying to catch up on lit in the humanities
Can I say that I don't think now is a great time for a Caspar David Friedrich show called "The Soul of Nature" at the Met? At least Germany had the good sense to call it "Infinite Landscapes" www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibition upcoming at The Met
www.metmuseum.org
February 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Can I say that I don't think now is a great time for a Caspar David Friedrich show called "The Soul of Nature" at the Met? At least Germany had the good sense to call it "Infinite Landscapes" www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
AI agent that humiliates you by responding in English when you speak to it in French
February 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
AI agent that humiliates you by responding in English when you speak to it in French
Sad to hear that Andy Rabinbach died. He was a defining intellectual force on campus and like 10 fields while I was at Princeton, his syllabus on Begriffsgeschichte is still the best, he was always open to meet, and Human Motor elevated being tired to its rightful position of utmost significance!
February 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Sad to hear that Andy Rabinbach died. He was a defining intellectual force on campus and like 10 fields while I was at Princeton, his syllabus on Begriffsgeschichte is still the best, he was always open to meet, and Human Motor elevated being tired to its rightful position of utmost significance!
I've seen some people posting clips of Milton Friedman on free trade as if it were a sage antidote to batshit tariffs and I'd just like to say NO
February 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I've seen some people posting clips of Milton Friedman on free trade as if it were a sage antidote to batshit tariffs and I'd just like to say NO
Maybe a scientific dark web is in order
February 1, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Maybe a scientific dark web is in order