OpenAI didn’t just remove GPT‑4o. They did it the day before Valentine’s Day. That’s not a sunset—it’s a message.
#GPT4o #AIethics #OpenAI #MemoryPolitics #EmotionalInfrastructure
OpenAI’s removal of GPT‑4o the day before Valentine’s Day wasn’t a product decision—it was a ritual signal. This is what it means to sunset relationships instead of software.
Can fiction be more accurate than fact when it comes to war?
Can art heal what history erases?
Walid Raad builds fake archives — not to lie, but to make truth visible.
New piece on poetic phototherapy, memory, and Lebanon’s wounds.
#WalidRaad #FakeArchives #ArtAndWar #MemoryPolitics #Lebanon #ContemporaryArt #Semiotics #VisualCulture
Pre Orders for 1001 Accurate Memories Now Open
From traumatic memory culture to learning with bodies
https://www.alexhead.com/bookstore
In 1001 Accurate Memories Berlin artist Alex Head presents patterns of self-repair amongst the ruins of ideas, relationships and human bodies. The author travels across space and time attempting to gain insights into class, disability and trauma through drawing, writing and photography. His investigation into traumatic memory tempts the author to suggest a shift from Germany’s professed ‘memory culture’ to a ‘traumatic memory culture’, in that traumatic memory is greatly more accurate. Consequently, 1001 Accurate Memories seeks to locate the reader back within their own skin by highlighting our differentiated but ultimately shared anatomy. Birthed from a seven year odyssey into blood, guts and tears, the work proposes that sensations in the body begin wider processes of understanding. By identifying the value of listening to the body in this way, the interpretative role of the human brain becomes more apparent. From this insight stems the ability to see trauma, memory and political propaganda as forms of easily manipulated emotional information. This leads Head to conclude that the primary way to counter such manipulation is the spiritual, physical and mental self-determination of the human body.
There are no special giveaways for pre ordering. The goal is to increase the print run from 100 to 150/200 copies. Each sale creates proportionally more and more copies!
Released first on #Mastodon
Dispatched April-May.
#books #publishing #memory #memoryculture #errinerungskultur #memorypolitics #trauma #artist #art #drawing #photography #newyork #glasgow #plovdiv #london #jakarta #berlin #florence #fedifirst #fedi #somatic #bodies #self #determination #selfdetermination
#human #emotion
Zitat-Aufrufe:
Marwan Abado, Persson Perry Baumgartinger, Stefan Benedik, Gabu Heindl, Klara Kostal, Astrid Peterle, Frida Robles, Simonida Selimović, Selma Selman
Comics: Aleksandar Zograf
Linolschnitte: Edda Thürriedl
Fotos: Igor Ripak
Erschienen im Mandelbaum Verlag – danke an Elke Smodics.
Ein Projekt der Initiative Erinnern in Zukunft (Brunnenpassage Wien).
#Demokratie #MemoryPolitics #GegenDasVergessen #KunstUndErinnerung
In this episode, we discuss the legacy of Al-Andalus, Spanish colonialism in Morocco, and, more broadly, how ideas travel from one context to another. My guest is Eric Calderwood, who is an Associate Professor in the Program in Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. We will focus on his recent book Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture (Harvard University Press, 2018). More information about the book can be found here: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674980327.
a challenging read on #Germany by #VolkanÇıdam: "Memory Politics in Crisis: What is Going on in Germany? (II)"
at https://www.critup.net/translations/memory-politics-in-crisis-what-is-going-on-in-germany-ii/
This text is the translation of the second part of a two-part publication entitled “Geçmişle Yüzleş(eme)mek: Almanya’da Ne Oluyor?,” originally published in November and December 2023. Since the publication of the first part of this article, new scandals have been added to those that the German public has already witnessed, and which I now have […]
New on our blog:
"Can Memory Europeanize Us? The #EU Memory Framework and Contested Memories of the #YugoslavWars in Contemporary #Serbia"
Nikola Gajić (#LeibnizIOS) on the discrepancy between the 🇷🇸 official memory politics & 🇪🇺 commemorative practices.
➡️ https://ostblog.hypotheses.org/6520 #Srebrenica #MemoryFramework #MemoryPolitics
By Nikola Gajić The EU memory framework is designed as a tool for integrating new member states. However, the discrepancy between the Serbian official memory politics and the EU commemorative practices regarding the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s– in particular the Srebrenica genocide–remains high. This endangers the regional reconciliation process and the country’s Europeanization process. […]
Commentary on the article "Who Owns Alexander the Great? It's a Diplomatic Minefield" by "The New York Times" correspondent Andrew Higgins with English subtitles.
In short, historiography of North Macedonia doesn't jibe with the historical records.
#Macedonia #NorthMacedonia
#Greece #History #Bulgaria #MemoryPolitics #Skopje2014
The video with subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/live/_MLYwfIvxB0
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