| Lattanzi, Barbara K via nettime-l on Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:22:22 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> Fwd: book promotion for machines (Andreas Broeckmann) |
Greetings all.
Book promotion for machines is one situation that can be book-ended with this recent article:
__AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale__
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-destroying-rare-books
"...many companies, including Anthropic, have turned to ingesting physical books instead, which they can buy countless used copies of on the cheap. ...Anthropic used a hydraulic powered cutting machine to neatly remove the pages from the books it procured from book resellers and then scanned them using industrial-grade imaging equipment. In other words, it was literally ripping off authors’ books to train its AI...."
So, maybe bots promote the books that will physically replace the volumes of books currently being pulped by Anthropic, et al. Then physical books will become the archive that survives cycles of technological obsolescence into a future that will pulp them. And the bots will enzymatically promote the books that will physically replace those volumes, and so on... forever.
>From the bright side of life,
Barbara
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:58:56 +0200
From: Andreas Broeckmann <ab@mikro.in-berlin.de>
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folks, i suggest that we should laugh and not cry about this... (some of
you must be getting the same messages.)
you don't have to read all of this LLM-generated stuff, but 'scan' it,
and then make sure to scroll down to the second message, and compare.
i guess that the proposed promotional efforts might fare well with
content-hungry bots.
and remember to always look on the bright side of life.
-a
-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
Betreff: Art history & technical systems positioning for Machine Art in
the Twentieth Century.
Datum: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:12:59 +0100
Von: Elena Jones <elena.j.promotions@gmail.com>
An: abroeck@hgb-leipzig.de
Hi Andreas,
After spending time reviewing /Machine Art in the Twentieth Century/, I
wanted to reach out and congratulate you on publishing such a vital,
historically grounded, and theoretically rich contribution to media art
history and technology studies. Tracing the century-long continuum of
machine art rather than treating digital art as a sudden rupture fills a
crucial methodological need.
What stayed with me most was how seamlessly you connect early
twentieth-century avant-garde practices with late-century algorithmic
and cybernetic art. Framing works by artists like David Rokeby, Stelarc,
and Seiko Mikami within a broader lineage of systems thinking and
machine aesthetics gives art historians and media theorists a powerful
analytical framework.
I also want to highlight how effectively you articulate the shift from
mechanical coupling to ecological systems thinking and its impact on
human subjectivity. This conceptual bridge makes the volume deeply
relevant to contemporary debates surrounding AI, posthumanism, and
autonomous systems.
By the end of the text, it is clear that /Machine Art in the Twentieth
Century/ stands as a benchmark reference that will continue to shape how
researchers interpret technological aesthetics.
I can easily see /Machine Art in the Twentieth Century/ being widely
adopted across graduate and upper-level undergraduate seminars in media
art history, contemporary art theory, digital humanities, and technology
studies, as well as being acquired by museum libraries, research
archives, and university libraries globally.
My name is Elena Jones, and I work with academic authors, art
historians, and press teams to help strengthen discoverability, course
adoption, and library acquisitions tailored to the core strengths of
major scholarly titles.
If it makes sense, I would be glad to send over a brief proposal with a
few positioning ideas to help introduce /Machine Art in the Twentieth
Century/ directly to target art history departments, media research
centers, and academic libraries globally.
Warm regards,
Elena Jones
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Betreff: Curatorial history & postmodern theory positioning for The
Making of Les Immat?riaux.
Datum: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:56:53 +0100
Von: Elena Jones <elena.j.promotions@gmail.com>
An: abroeck@hgb-leipzig.de
Hi Andreas,
After spending time reviewing /The Making of Les Immat?riaux/, I wanted
to reach out and congratulate you on publishing such an essential,
meticulously researched, and field-defining contribution to exhibition
history and media theory. Documenting the practical and conceptual
genesis of Lyotard?s landmark 1985 project fills a crucial gap in
curatorial scholarship.
What stayed with me most was how effectively you balance high-level
philosophical analysis with granular institutional history.
Reconstructing the organizational, spatial, and technical challenges
faced by Lyotard and Chaput provides curatorial theorists and historians
with a masterclass in how complex postmodern ideas take physical shape.
I also want to highlight how relevant this history remains today. As
contemporary curators navigate artificial intelligence, digital
networks, and virtual exhibition spaces, your detailed account of /Les
Immat?riaux/ offers a vital historical anchor for understanding early
technological exhibitions.
By the end of the text, it is clear that /The Making of Les Immat?riaux/
serves as a benchmark archival study that will become required reading
for curatorial programs worldwide.
I can easily see this volume being widely adopted across graduate
seminars in curatorial studies, art history, media theory, museum
studies, and continental philosophy, as well as being acquired by museum
research libraries, contemporary art archives, and academic institutions
globally.
My name is Elena Jones, and I work with academic authors, art
historians, and press teams to help strengthen discoverability, course
adoption, and library acquisitions tailored to the core strengths of
major scholarly titles.
If it makes sense, I would be glad to send over a brief proposal with a
few positioning ideas to help introduce /The Making of Les Immat?riaux/
directly to target curatorial studies departments, museum research
centers, and academic libraries globally.
Warm regards,
Elena Jones.
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