Desiree Foerster
@dfoerster.bsky.social
senior research associate @ UChicago. studies phenomenology of digital and environmental media.
Book: https://meson.press/books/aesthetic-experience-of-metabolic-processes/
Web: https://dfoerster.org
Book: https://meson.press/books/aesthetic-experience-of-metabolic-processes/
Web: https://dfoerster.org
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It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
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This essay is a banger. houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/you-dont-n... (obligatory "wish it weren't on substack")
You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual
The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies
houseofmirrors.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This essay is a banger. houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/you-dont-n... (obligatory "wish it weren't on substack")
So excited to present the amazing work of UChicago's students together with Ken Nakagaki at Ars Electronica's Campus Exhibition!
August 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
So excited to present the amazing work of UChicago's students together with Ken Nakagaki at Ars Electronica's Campus Exhibition!
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Tomorrow, August 7th is the deadline for comments to he EPA.
Takes a minute.
Please REPOST REPOST REPOST. Thank you!
🌎 #EPA
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🌎 #EPA
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Defend lifesaving limits on power plant pollution | NRDC
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August 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Tomorrow, August 7th is the deadline for comments to he EPA.
Takes a minute.
Please REPOST REPOST REPOST. Thank you!
🌎 #EPA
action.nrdc.org/letter/4099-...
Takes a minute.
Please REPOST REPOST REPOST. Thank you!
🌎 #EPA
action.nrdc.org/letter/4099-...
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I cannot imagine how the kinds of ‘knot-working’ - the bringing together of knowledges to create fresh insights - that arts & hums are so brilliant at, can be ‘built’ into what are essentially homogenisation machines. And what would be the point when 👋🏻? So, no.
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Pre-announcement: artificial intelligence humanities sandpits: Canada, UK and US #ahrc #academicsky
August 1, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I cannot imagine how the kinds of ‘knot-working’ - the bringing together of knowledges to create fresh insights - that arts & hums are so brilliant at, can be ‘built’ into what are essentially homogenisation machines. And what would be the point when 👋🏻? So, no.
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"there are people with the cute label ‘brain fog’, which can actually now be better understood as a form of brain damage" - can anyone point me in the direction of studies specifically about this? 🥹
Above quote about long covid is from ⤵️ review of Suzanne O’Sullivan’s book ‘The Age of Diagnosis’:
Above quote about long covid is from ⤵️ review of Suzanne O’Sullivan’s book ‘The Age of Diagnosis’:
Books: The Age of Diagnosis: Sickness, Health and Why Medicine Has Gone Too Far
Suzanne O’Sullivan Hodder and Stoughton, 2025, HB, 320pp, £22.00, 978-1399727648
Suzanne O’Sullivan is a neurologist specialising in epilepsy who has come to prominence through her non-fiction book...
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July 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"there are people with the cute label ‘brain fog’, which can actually now be better understood as a form of brain damage" - can anyone point me in the direction of studies specifically about this? 🥹
Above quote about long covid is from ⤵️ review of Suzanne O’Sullivan’s book ‘The Age of Diagnosis’:
Above quote about long covid is from ⤵️ review of Suzanne O’Sullivan’s book ‘The Age of Diagnosis’:
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Next week, I'm starting a new project called "Algorithmic Kitchen" with support from the @wellcometrust.bsky.social a project that weaves disability design with health tech. I'm ready to grow new networks with direct engagement with a touring kitchen!
wellcome.org/research-fun...
wellcome.org/research-fun...
Algorithmic Kitchen: Recipes for Disability-Led Health Technology Design - Grants Awarded | Wellcome
Algorithmic Kitchen: Recipes for Disability-Led Health Technology Design
wellcome.org
July 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Next week, I'm starting a new project called "Algorithmic Kitchen" with support from the @wellcometrust.bsky.social a project that weaves disability design with health tech. I'm ready to grow new networks with direct engagement with a touring kitchen!
wellcome.org/research-fun...
wellcome.org/research-fun...
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An dieser Stelle sei zum "Enigma" Peter Thiel dieser Text von @lioneltrolling.bsky.social empfohlen: "There Is No Enigma — He's a Fascist"
The Enigma of Peter Thiel
There Is No Enigma — He's a Fascist
www.unpopularfront.news
July 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
An dieser Stelle sei zum "Enigma" Peter Thiel dieser Text von @lioneltrolling.bsky.social empfohlen: "There Is No Enigma — He's a Fascist"
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The sheer quantity of bullshit here. The solution to instructor exhaustion and overwork is not outsourcing grading (if that’s not direct mentoring of students, I don’t know what is) but hiring more faculty and reducing class sizes. Give the money to teachers, not Sam Altman
July 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The sheer quantity of bullshit here. The solution to instructor exhaustion and overwork is not outsourcing grading (if that’s not direct mentoring of students, I don’t know what is) but hiring more faculty and reducing class sizes. Give the money to teachers, not Sam Altman
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Becuase we have to fight a mile at a time, please sign. actionnetwork.org/letters/well...
Wellington Greenway Support
CDOT has released a plan to improve the bike network in the City of Chicago by adding a new greenway along the length of Wellington Ave, to help improve the safety of the many cyclists who already use...
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July 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Becuase we have to fight a mile at a time, please sign. actionnetwork.org/letters/well...
Amid all the bad news that has become all too familiar, I was delighted about three recent developments: 1. With quite a bit of delay, my paper “Experience of Indeterminacy in Virtual Reality” was published in Hyperrhiz: New Media Culture: hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz28/...
Experience of Indeterminacy in Virtual Reality
This essay analyzes a multidisciplinary study that uses virtual reality (VR) as a platform to explore experiences of indeterminacy.
hyperrhiz.io
July 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Amid all the bad news that has become all too familiar, I was delighted about three recent developments: 1. With quite a bit of delay, my paper “Experience of Indeterminacy in Virtual Reality” was published in Hyperrhiz: New Media Culture: hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz28/...
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Heyo! New piece by me, @ashleyshoo.bsky.social and @wolvendamien.bsky.social on our syllabi and teaching philosophies around our class Technology and Disability is out!
blog.apaonline.org/2025/06/18/t...
blog.apaonline.org/2025/06/18/t...
Technology and Disability, Ashley Shew, Damien P. Williams, and Joshua Earle
The three of us have taught classes about Technology and Disability through a philosophical lens, though this class has not been taught exclusively through philosophy departments. We’re excited to sha...
blog.apaonline.org
June 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Heyo! New piece by me, @ashleyshoo.bsky.social and @wolvendamien.bsky.social on our syllabi and teaching philosophies around our class Technology and Disability is out!
blog.apaonline.org/2025/06/18/t...
blog.apaonline.org/2025/06/18/t...
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A lot of people in the US feel that as long as they can go on minding their daily lives of work and consumption that fascism has not arrived, but COVID, global warming, and Gaza has demonstrated that is precisely this desire to go on as if nothing is happening that drives contemporary fascism.
July 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
A lot of people in the US feel that as long as they can go on minding their daily lives of work and consumption that fascism has not arrived, but COVID, global warming, and Gaza has demonstrated that is precisely this desire to go on as if nothing is happening that drives contemporary fascism.
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🚨 URGENT: CHICAGO ORGANIZER DETAINED BY ICE, SHOW UP NOW!!! 🚨
A longtime organizer in our Chicago community has just been detained by ICE. And she’s not alone, demonstrators outside have seen 3 people shackled in chains.
📍 GET TO 1930 Beach St., Broadview, IL RIGHT NOW.
A longtime organizer in our Chicago community has just been detained by ICE. And she’s not alone, demonstrators outside have seen 3 people shackled in chains.
📍 GET TO 1930 Beach St., Broadview, IL RIGHT NOW.
June 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
🚨 URGENT: CHICAGO ORGANIZER DETAINED BY ICE, SHOW UP NOW!!! 🚨
A longtime organizer in our Chicago community has just been detained by ICE. And she’s not alone, demonstrators outside have seen 3 people shackled in chains.
📍 GET TO 1930 Beach St., Broadview, IL RIGHT NOW.
A longtime organizer in our Chicago community has just been detained by ICE. And she’s not alone, demonstrators outside have seen 3 people shackled in chains.
📍 GET TO 1930 Beach St., Broadview, IL RIGHT NOW.
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Hull House!
"considered art the highest expression of human labor +believed that the way to foster a more flourishing society was to empower all people to share in the work..reminder that Chicago+the Midwest have long been places of leftist experimentation"
www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/a-ma...
"considered art the highest expression of human labor +believed that the way to foster a more flourishing society was to empower all people to share in the work..reminder that Chicago+the Midwest have long been places of leftist experimentation"
www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/a-ma...
A Mass Politics of Beauty: On Hull-House’s “Radical Craft” — Cleveland Review of Books
It is an anti-elitist, capaciously democratic argument against the disfiguring mystifications that turn labor into commodities and art into the purchase of a privileged few.
www.clereviewofbooks.com
May 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Hull House!
"considered art the highest expression of human labor +believed that the way to foster a more flourishing society was to empower all people to share in the work..reminder that Chicago+the Midwest have long been places of leftist experimentation"
www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/a-ma...
"considered art the highest expression of human labor +believed that the way to foster a more flourishing society was to empower all people to share in the work..reminder that Chicago+the Midwest have long been places of leftist experimentation"
www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/a-ma...
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Wait, whaaaaaat?!? 🌎🧪 www.space.com/stargazing/s...
Hours before a solar eclipse, spruce trees 'talk' to each other
"Basically, we are watching the famous 'wood wide web' in action!"
www.space.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Wait, whaaaaaat?!? 🌎🧪 www.space.com/stargazing/s...
On my way to my favorite conference (uncommon senses) in one of my favorite cities (Montreal)! sites.events.concordia.ca/sites/concor...
Home | Uncommon Senses V
Uncommon Senses V: Sensing the Social, the Environmental, and Across the Arts and Sciences will be taking place at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada this coming May. We are pleased to be welcomin...
sites.events.concordia.ca
May 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
On my way to my favorite conference (uncommon senses) in one of my favorite cities (Montreal)! sites.events.concordia.ca/sites/concor...
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🚀 Delighted to announce the publication of our new #MedHums101 brochure: ‘What is Medical Humanities?’ We hope it sparks your imagination, inspires your curiosity & encourages you to engage in our vibrant interdisciplinary field! tinyurl.com/what-is-med-...
Med Hums 101: What is Medical Humanities?
The Polyphony is delighted to launch the publication of a new brochure – MedHums 101: What is medical humanities?
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March 31, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🚀 Delighted to announce the publication of our new #MedHums101 brochure: ‘What is Medical Humanities?’ We hope it sparks your imagination, inspires your curiosity & encourages you to engage in our vibrant interdisciplinary field! tinyurl.com/what-is-med-...
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As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.
TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
February 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.
TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
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A 3-year full-time post-doc position in Prague! I'll be grateful for reposts. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. linguistlist.org/issues/36/10...
LINGUIST List 36.1018 Jobs: Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax: Post-Doc in Empirical and Theoretical Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
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March 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A 3-year full-time post-doc position in Prague! I'll be grateful for reposts. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. linguistlist.org/issues/36/10...
Spring quarter started, and I'm teaching my new class on "Re-imagining Health in Immersive Media Environments," which is also the topic of my new book project. The students are wonderful, and I'm pretty excited for the next weeks! We will also experience some VR applications,
March 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Spring quarter started, and I'm teaching my new class on "Re-imagining Health in Immersive Media Environments," which is also the topic of my new book project. The students are wonderful, and I'm pretty excited for the next weeks! We will also experience some VR applications,
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this article is published in a special issue of Media + Environment which I contributed to editing as part of an AHRC & DFG funded project called Weather Reports: Wind as Model, Media, and Experience. with many thanks to @hepach.org for the editorial heavy lifting mediaenviron.org/article/1274...
March 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
this article is published in a special issue of Media + Environment which I contributed to editing as part of an AHRC & DFG funded project called Weather Reports: Wind as Model, Media, and Experience. with many thanks to @hepach.org for the editorial heavy lifting mediaenviron.org/article/1274...
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It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.
March 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.
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The recording of my talk at @eflux.bsky.social is now online.
If you want the misfortune of hearing me rambling about psychoanalysis, the optical unconscious, the gaze and the digital image for more than an hour, here is your chance.
vimeo.com/1058822880/7...
If you want the misfortune of hearing me rambling about psychoanalysis, the optical unconscious, the gaze and the digital image for more than an hour, here is your chance.
vimeo.com/1058822880/7...
2/27/25 - Pietro Bianchi
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March 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The recording of my talk at @eflux.bsky.social is now online.
If you want the misfortune of hearing me rambling about psychoanalysis, the optical unconscious, the gaze and the digital image for more than an hour, here is your chance.
vimeo.com/1058822880/7...
If you want the misfortune of hearing me rambling about psychoanalysis, the optical unconscious, the gaze and the digital image for more than an hour, here is your chance.
vimeo.com/1058822880/7...