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Jane Birkin
@janeabirkin.bsky.social
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Artist, designer, writer. Research Fellow, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.
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Jane Birkin @janeabirkin.bsky.social · Nov 14
I have a few new followers, so, by way of introduction, this is my book. Nearly four years old now but it still describes my interests. For details and reviews see www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
This is a picture of my book entitled Archive, Photography and the Language of Administration, in an open box as it arrives from the publisher in early 2021
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January 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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December 30, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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Text Generation and Other Uneasy Human-Machine Collaborations — a new open access article by me: iperstoria.it/article/view...
Text Generation and Other Uneasy Human-Machine Collaborations | Iperstoria
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December 21, 2024 at 9:43 AM
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A frustrated letter from the Library of Congress asking Norbert Weiner what section of a library his book is supposed to be in (1949).
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 2, 1949 Dr. Norbert Wiener Mass. Institute of Technology Cambridge, Nass. My dear Dr. Wiener: The publication of your book on Cybernetics has caused the editorial staff which is in charge of the revision of the Dewey Decimal Classification considerable difficulty. We are in the position of being asked by sincere inquirers as to how to classify the book and by less sincere people who like to confront supposedly expert classifiers with problems which they are quite certain are beyond our capabilities. Quite frankly, cybernetics is. We have read and reread reviews and explanations of the content of your book and have even tried to understand the book itself, only to become more uncertain as to what field it falls into. I am appealing to you as the one person who should be able to tell us. Possibly you already know that the Dewey Decimal Classification attempts to assign a number to the subject content of books. Generally speaking, a book can only be assigned one number and consequently we cannot take care of the many aspects that certain works cover. The problem must be simplified and consequently, is your book such as to place it in psychology? Does it belong in the field of electronic computation devices or does it belong in mathematics? If we were not somewhat desperate about this particular problem, I should hesitate to bother you with it. Cordially yours, Esther P. Potter Director
December 12, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent."

Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on)

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Yes, it's a genocide
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December 4, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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Clive Scott and Nick Warr, eds. Shadows of Reality: A Catalogue of W.G. Sebald's Photographic Materials (@mitpress.bsky.social, 2023; #skystorians, #history, #photography): mitpress.mit.edu/978026254829...
November 18, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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I have a few new followers, so, by way of introduction, this is my book. Nearly four years old now but it still describes my interests. For details and reviews see www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
This is a picture of my book entitled Archive, Photography and the Language of Administration, in an open box as it arrives from the publisher in early 2021
November 14, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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Librarians moving dystopian novels to the nonfiction shelves.
a woman standing in a library with a book titled room on the shelf
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November 13, 2024 at 2:06 AM
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Great working with Sunil Manghani on this quirky piece: ‘From Dürer’s Rhinoceros to AI Image Diffusion Models’, co-author piece with @JaneABirkin, available OPEN ACCESS: #Holotipus, journal of zoology, systematics and taxonomy |
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March 26, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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My new piece in Journal of Art Practice special issue www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... I co-edited the issue with Sunil Manghani - our intro here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 20, 2023 at 10:47 AM