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Eckart Voigts

@ecco0210.bsky.social

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Prof. English Literatures and Cultures@TU Braunschweig, Germany; Adaptation, Intermediality, Theatre, Neovictorianism, U/Dystopia, "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana."

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Eckart Voigts @ecco0210.bsky.social · Nov 12

www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6...

Artificial Intelligence – Intelligent Art?

Focusing on AI in literature and music, this volume discusses how algorithmic data processing increasingly pervades everyday life and aesthetic practices.

www.transcript-verlag.de

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Eckart Voigts @ecco0210.bsky.social · Jun 8

Old song. New video. youtu.be/CJ54eImz88w?...

Eckart Voigts @ecco0210.bsky.social · Jun 3

...and James Batman...

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Eckart Voigts @ecco0210.bsky.social · Jun 3

And now getting ready for Iain Robert Smith's keynote on the restored "the Turkish Star Wars" (and "coca-colonization" etc....).

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Christina Wilkins @stinaface.bsky.social · Jun 3

Next up is @ecco0210.bsky.social talking about adapting academic essays into film.

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · Feb 28

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Feb 25

You first.

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Eckart Voigts @ecco0210.bsky.social · Feb 24

Chungbuk war nicht ganz so hübsch. Aber auch sehr nett dort.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · Feb 24

Dear Europe,

Trump completely melts under pushback.

So push back.

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Eckart Voigts @ecco0210.bsky.social · Feb 11

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

US and UK refuse to sign Paris summit declaration on ‘inclusive’ AI

Confirmation of snub comes after JD Vance criticises Europe’s ‘excessive regulation’ of technology

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Eckart Voigts @ecco0210.bsky.social · Feb 11

Christopher Walken.

Eckart Voigts @ecco0210.bsky.social · Feb 10

Anglistenverband seit 2023 Anglistikverband. Mit großer Mehrheit. War gar nicht schlimm.

Eckart Voigts @ecco0210.bsky.social · Feb 10

Went to see Gob Squad's News from Beyond at HAU Berlin. And Nachtkritik very much sums up what I thought. Plus: It needs a lot of courage to really allow unscripted entertainment. nachtkritik.de/nachtkritike...

News from Beyond – HAU Berlin – Gob Squad schicken Nachrichten ins Jenseits

6. Februar 2025. So hätte man sich die Wesen aus dem Anderswo nun nicht unbedingt vorgestellt. Der Abend am HAU hatte schon knappe anderthalb Stunden auf der U

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Claas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · Feb 1

"Den Bruch des Versprechens sollte die Gewissensnot heilen. (...) Wo die Person als letzter Grund ins Spiel gebracht wird, endet, wie Habeck zur Semantik des Gewissens traurig anmerkte, die Politik."
Ein luzider Text von @pbahners.bsky.social über die Probleme einer Personalisierung des Politischen.

Abstimmung mit der AfD: Friedrich Merz, ein Mann mit Gewissen

Der Oppositionsführer im Ausnahmezustand: Was geht ihn sein Versprechen von gestern an? So viel, dass er persönlich werden muss, um den Bruch zu begründen: Friedrich Merz bringt sein Gewissen ins poli...

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Eckart Voigts @ecco0210.bsky.social · Feb 2

Miss Austen www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

'The truth is she did the right thing': The mystery of why Jane Austen's letters were destroyed – by her own sister

Austen is one of the greatest writers in the English language – but relatively little is known about her. And that's in part because of an act that infuriates many to this day.

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Christina Meyer @chrismey2203.bsky.social · Feb 1

Hamburg. (Download from Insta).

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · Feb 1

What Octavia Butler saw on Feb. 1, 2025, three decades ago: Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel "Parable of the Sower" that Feb. 1, 2025, would be a time of fires, violence, racism, addiction, climate change, social inequality and an authoritarian "President Donner."

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What Octavia Butler saw on Feb. 1, 2025, three decades ago

Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel "Parable of the Sower" that Feb. 1, 2025, would be a time of fires, violence, racism, addiction, climate change, social inequality and an authoritarian "President Donner." * That day is…

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · Jan 26

WHO DID THIS!

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Eckart Voigts @ecco0210.bsky.social · Jan 16

Anyhow, the distributed plagiarism of LLMs is so much more sophisticated than good old-fashioned copy & paste. Authorship is messy and dangerous. Data will keep us safe and clean. There ist no truth outside of data. Data is God.

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Eckart Voigts @ecco0210.bsky.social · Jan 16

Maybe a bad feeling, but also a great idea. As long as someone uses LLMs to produce text they can be thought of as 'responsible', right? No interest, no creativity. Apart from evolution. Wait, now it gets complicated.

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · Jan 4

It’s that time of year again.

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A Shit Academics Say screenshot that reads (Manuscript in preparation (2024 crossed out, 2025)

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David Pattie @davidpattie.bsky.social · Dec 31

If you start watching David Cronenberg's 1981 film Scanners tonight at 23:47 and 40 seconds that guy on the right's head will explode precisely at midnight.

I have no idea why you would want to do this. But you could.

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Christina Meyer @chrismey2203.bsky.social · Dec 9

How your email finds me right now….

Photo of an owl, giving an “I’m exhausted look”.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · Dec 6

Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

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Eckart Voigts @ecco0210.bsky.social · Nov 23

Just a Letter to the Editor. Still. Conception. Writhing. Validation.

Thorn-Seshold Lab @thornsesholdlab.bsky.social · Nov 22

Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

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Thorn-Seshold Lab @thornsesholdlab.bsky.social · Nov 22

Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

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Anja Hartl @anjahartl.bsky.social · Nov 14

Looking forward to what promises to be an extremely timely & urgent conference in Innsbruck next week. Keynote speakers: Ann Cvetkovich & Carolyn Pedwell.
Programme: www.britcult.de/conference20...

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Your Old Pal Gav @youroldpalgav.bsky.social · Nov 12

Maps 1 & 2: migration trends between 2021-2023

Map 3: heat map showing areas expected to have highest increase in 100 degree days over next 30 years

Map 4: areas most at risk of insurance premium increase due to wind damage

#housing #climate #climatechange

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Eckart Voigts @ecco0210.bsky.social · Nov 12

AI is an adaptation machine.

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Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · Nov 11

12 funded PhD positions available at the Augsburg-Munich International Doctoral Program "Rethinking Environment: The Environmental Humanities and the Ecological Transformation of Society"

-> Deadline: January 31, 2025 #envhum #ecocriticism

www.uni-augsburg.de/en/forschung...

Call for Applications

www.uni-augsburg.de

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