Check out the Future of Writing '26 Art Gallery
Feat: Nanette Wylde , Sean Cho Ayers, Alan Bigelow , Scott Rettberg , Roderick Coover , Caitlin Fisher , Nimrod Astarhan , Jason Nelson , Janet Cohen, Keith Frank, and Jon Ippolito
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These are going to shape the field!
The 2nd Critical Code Studies Digital Humanities Quarterly is now online! ed. w Jeremy Douglass
Feat. Kevin Brock, Evan Buswell, Zachary Mann, Briana Bettin, Jeffrey Moro, Zachary Horton and Levi Burner, Matt Burton and Joris van Zundert, and Mace Ojala
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Cover reveal: This book will knock everything you know about ELIZA on it's side. Design by @tam.stefanie Available this summer from @mitpress Authors: Sarah Ciston, David M. Berry, Anthony Hay, Mark C. Marino, Peter Millican, Arthur Schwarz, Jeff Shrager, and Peggy Weil
Precisely why we drafted this on behalf of @modernlanguage.bsky.social. Ed tech providers (like Canvas) need to take the lead in cutting this off at the knees. Professional organizations and our institutions can’t do it themselves. cc @annamillsoer.bsky.social www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...
Introducing The Transformers, a group of researchers discussing changes to writing in this era of generative AI: Anna Mills, Jon Ippolito, Maha Bali, Jeremy Douglass, Annette Vee, Marc Watkins and me! Read all about us at electronic book review!
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Today is our in-person day of the Future of Writing Symposium! All day, free at USC. Amazing talks from scholars and artists in SoCal and beyond! Here is UCLA's Lauri Mattenson reminding ourselves of our embodied selves!
Tomorrow we launch The 2026 Future of Writing Symposium online! Saturday we will convene in person at USC!
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Don't miss the Future of Writing 2026. Online Feb 20 and in-person at USC Feb 21. Tickets are free through Eventbrite!
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Nominate a person or work for one of the 4 ELO Awards by March 9! Pls. share!
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The onion remains undefeated in delivering the most accurate news.
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Tickets are now available for Future of Writing 2026 online Feb 20, in person at USC Feb 21. Tickets are free. Open to all!
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Today I shared a preview of Inventing ELIZA, giving the intro chapter to all participants in the 2026 Critical Code Studies Working Group! Very excited to bring this book, born of the working groups, into the world this summer after so many years!
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Lyr Colin & Carly Schnitzler lead up Week 4 of the Critical Code Studies Working Group on New Work & New Directions. #critcode
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@lyrwar.bsky.social
Spotlight: Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI by Alan Blackwell, featured book in Week 4 of the 2026 Critical Code Studies Working Group!
Come join the discussion of this brilliant Open Access text.
'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
Today is the deadline to propose a presentation at the in-person Retro AI Symposium at USC July 31 and August 1. Art works welcome too for online exhibition.
bit.ly/retroai26
Today is the deadline to propose a presentation at the in-person Retro AI Symposium at USC July 31 and August 1. Art works welcome too for online exhibition.
bit.ly/retroai26
The IFTF has banned generative AI content from the Interactive Fiction Competition; details below.
I'm happy to see this move from the @iftechfoundation.org and I think it's a positive development, though I have quibbles (of course).
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When people AI shame programmers for using LLMs to generate code, we should call it "vibe killing."
Deadline Feb 1. CFP: Retro AI: Archaeologies of Artificial Intelligence at USC July 31-Aug 1, 2026, in-person symposium looking at the history of AI, ethics, innovation, and more.
bit.ly/retroai26
#artificialintelligence #critcode #criticalAI
Mark C Marino holds the book Output in front of him.
Spotlight on Output: Computer Generated Text 1953-2023 edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort. It's our featured book in Week 3 of the Critical Code Studies Working Group! Chock full of fascinating generators, including ELIZA!
#CRITCODE
I would try making a big bowl of Spaghetti Code and Meatballs from Hallucinate This!
A two panel display of ELIZA: Rediscovering the First Chatbot with a panel pf the code over upside down typed text that features replies from DOCTOR
And the UNESCO exhibition of Source Code features a submission from TEAM ELIZA! It's featured in the code as Historical Testimony section. Software Heritage Foundation.
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The Source Code Exhibition by UNESCO and the Software Heritage Foundation marks a major milestone on Critical Code Studies. Mathilde Fichen, Titaÿna Kauffmann, Stefano Penge, and Camille Picard. #critcode
Check out the online manifestation.
www.sourcecode-exhibition.softwareheritage.org
Week 3 featured thread: UNESCO Software Heritage Foundation exhibition of source code, which opens this week. We'll be discussing code from the exhibition, includes work by Daniel Temkin, Nick Montfort, and TEAM ELIZA's curated code by Joseph Weizenbaum!
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How do we study hidden operations through code?
One of the discussions in the 2026 Critical Code Studies Working Group.
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#critcode
Sick to my stomach.
There is NO gun. It was another execution. Every MAGA rep is complicit in this man's murder-every one of them.
#HoldFast
I’m so sick of people throwing their hands up and saying abolishing ICE isn’t possible right now. Abolishing ICE is extremely popular and calls to do so will only continue to grow, meanwhile conservatives manage to do incredibly unpopular things all the time because nobody stops them
