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Humanist Archives: Nov. 8, 2025, 7:13 a.m. Humanist 39.203 - events: struggles against AI (recorded); media history (cfp)

				
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    [1]    From: Lisa Rabin <lrabin@gmu.edu>
           Subject: Recording of Nick Dyer-Witheford's talk "Hyper-Capitalist Tumults: Struggles In and Against Artificial Intelligence" GMU Cultural Studies Colloquium (33)

    [2]    From: Martin Grandjean <martin.grandjean@unil.ch>
           Subject: CFP Computational Analysis of Radio and Press Archives (12)


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        Date: 2025-11-05 19:17:04+00:00
        From: Lisa Rabin <lrabin@gmu.edu>
        Subject: Recording of Nick Dyer-Witheford's talk "Hyper-Capitalist Tumults: Struggles In and Against Artificial Intelligence" GMU Cultural Studies Colloquium

If you missed last Thursday's Colloquium, please enjoy the recording here!
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Tough Questions, Bold Answers
GMU Cultural Studies Fall Colloquium

Nick Dyer-Witheford
Hyper-Capitalist Tumults: Struggles In and Against Artificial Intelligence

Recorded by GMU-TV (video link below!)

Nick Dyer-Witheford (University of Western Ontario, Information & Media
Studies), the groundbreaking cultural studies scholar (author of
Cyberproletariat), will talk about struggles in and against AI, drawing on
recent co-authored books Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence the Future of
Capitalism (2019) and Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary
Crisis (2025). Co-sponsored by Sociology and Anthropology

Special thanks to the CIPS (CHSS Interdisciplinary Program Support) fund, the
Department of Modern and Classical Languages, the College of Humanities and
Social Sciences, University Life and GMU-TV for generous assistance.

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Watch the recording here ↓
 (https://t.e2ma.net/click/vp5chrb/zk0o4qic/7uhb0y1)

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        Date: 2025-11-05 10:58:50+00:00
        From: Martin Grandjean <martin.grandjean@unil.ch>
        Subject: CFP Computational Analysis of Radio and Press Archives

Dear colleagues,

This message is to remind you that the call for papers for the Impresso
conference “Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?” is open
until next Monday, November 10. We are particularly interested in contributions
focusing on computational analysis of radio+press archives.

Call for papers in English and French here: https://impresso.github.io/radio-
and-newspapers-conference/

All the best,
Martin


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