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109 - Walter Benjamin in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction feat. laborkyle and laborabby

Oh boy we’ve got something special! We’re joined again by laborkyle to talk about Walter Benjamin and his essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Also AI, fascism, and dreams. 

 

Kyle’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/laborkyle

Profane Illuminations: Theology for Militants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeV314axro4

All Gamers Are Bastards: https://soundcloud.com/agabpod

Media mentioned

https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068327/ 

 

Discord: https://discord.gg/2CNQgjwgR 

108 - Day in the Life of Justin

Same thing as with Jay, but now featuring Justin. Also some news. 

Discord: https://discord.gg/7WcvM7Xdq 

Media mentioned

https://www.applevalleynewsnow.com/news/court-blocks-push-to-close-dayton-library/article_b73f99a8-58bf-11ee-98ed-efcddf58abbd.html

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/26/fcc-announces-plans-to-reinstate-net-neutrality/

107 - Mütter Museum

We’re covering updates on the Mütter Museum’s exhibits, digital collections, and human remains policies. 

Media mentioned

Segment: https://www.wired.com/story/prisoners-training-ai-finland/

Article that named Mütter Museum as one of Philly museums still holding indigenous remains: https://www.inquirer.com/news/native-american-remains-penn-temple-mutter-20230113.html (January 13, 2023)

Original article that gained traction, there was an earlier one on the digital collections going down that might have prompted it: https://www.inquirer.com/news/mutter-museum-oddities-review-new-plan-20230603.html (Updated June 3, 2023)

Petition in response to article: https://www.change.org/p/protect-the-integrity-of-the-m%C3%BCtter-museum 

Pro Quinn article that came out with Guardian piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/science/mutter-medical-museum.html (Aug 13, 2023)

Most recent:

https://whyy.org/articles/mutter-museum-public-engagement-program-collection-future/ (Sept 17, 2023)

https://www.inquirer.com/arts/mutter-museum-human-remains-debate-town-halls-20230918.html ( Sept 18, 2023)

Three Identical Strangers: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7664504/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immortal_Life_of_Henrietta_Lacks

Twin Rabbit - Plains Sign & the Myth of Indigenous Illiteracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pogA7PQCtu0 

106 - Day in the life of Jay

We’re going over the daily life of a library worker for those who are interested! First up: Jay!

Media mentioned

Segment:https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/96

https://youtu.be/v1eWIshUzr8?si=jc3ouGYgcJIlfJsx

https://www.dukeupress.edu/complaint

 

Discord: https://discord.gg/qTMg4v7Xu 

105 - Storm Center (1956) feat. Horror Vanguard

This week we’re joined by Jon and Ash from Horror Vanguard to talk about the spookiest movie of the summer: Storm Center (1956). 

 

Horror Vanguard: https://linktr.ee/HorrorVanguard 

Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan 

Media Mentioned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhLP8M9eXD8 

https://www.culturematters.org.uk/index.php/arts/poetry/item/2729-in-praise-of-communism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Brown_(librarian)

Face to Face with Communism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_jbMrXcVmw 

​​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_futurism

Hammer and Hoe https://uncpress.org/book/9781469625485/hammer-and-hoe/

https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/capitalist-realism-new-edition 

https://www.versobooks.com/products/2631-class-war

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5867314/

https://www.librarypunk.gay/e/080-moms-for-libertymoms-for-libraries/ 

https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/201-in-the-earth

104 - Intro to AI and Copyright

Justin and Jay both had to talk about this for work, so why not do an episode? 

Discord: https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan

Media mentioned

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2023/08/29/appeals-court-rules-against-mandatory-deposit/#:~:text=In%20a%20decision%20handed%20down,violation%20of%20the%20takings%20clause.

The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool | Techdirt

Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon

Introduction to Large Language Models and the Transformer Architecture | by Pradeep Menon 

Google and YouTube are trying to have it both ways with AI and copyright - The Verge

Google and Universal Music working on licensing voices for AI-generated songs | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian 

https://www.altexsoft.com/blog/generative-ai/ 

https://www.copyright.gov/ai/

Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co. - Wikipedia.

AI-Generated Art Lacks Copyright Protection, D.C. Court Says (1)

AI-generated art cannot receive copyrights, US court says | Reuters

103 - It’s bad news roundup, pardner 3

We’re doing another bad news roundup. And you know we’re Bataille posting!

https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan 

Media mentioned

Justin

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/07/26/hisd-to-eliminate-librarians-turn-libraries-into-discipline-centers-at-28-campuses/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/publishers-booksellers-sue-texas-over-public-school-book-ban-2023-07-26/ 

Sadie

https://www.thedailybeast.com/crowd-gives-campbell-county-library-board-in-wyoming-the-finger-after-library-director-is-fired 

Jay

https://www.metroweekly.com/2023/07/attempt-to-remove-san-diego-librarys-lgbtq-books-backfires/

 

The Pornographic Imagination (Sontag) https://www.remittancegirl.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/124506505-The-Pornographic-Imagination-by-Susan-Sontag.pdf

https://repeaterbooks.com/product/postcapitalist-desire-the-final-lectures/

102 - Mastodon, Bluesky, and Bullshit Part 2 feat Jonny

Part 2!

https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan  

Media mentioned

https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/microsoft-lost-keys-government-hacked/

https://dustycloud.org/blog/on-standards-divisions-collaboration/

https://jon-e.net/infrastructure/#forums--feeds (applicability of AP to publishing)

https://mayfirst.coop/en/

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/65/336347/the-vectoralist-class/ 

https://www.versobooks.com/products/887-capital-is-dead

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710957/chokepoint-capitalism-by-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin/

https://piracy.solutions/

101 - Mastodon, Bluesky, and Bullshit Part 1 feat. Jonny Saunders

A two parter because we had so much to cover! Jonny joins us to explain Fediverse, ActivityPub, Bluesky, and other mysterious hives of villainy. How do preservation? Also: Microsoft lost the keys to their cloud. Also we started a discord!

https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan 

Media mentioned

https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/microsoft-lost-keys-government-hacked/

https://dustycloud.org/blog/on-standards-divisions-collaboration/

https://jon-e.net/infrastructure/#forums--feeds (applicability of AP to publishing)

https://mayfirst.coop/en/

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/65/336347/the-vectoralist-class/ 

https://www.versobooks.com/products/887-capital-is-dead

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710957/chokepoint-capitalism-by-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin/

https://piracy.solutions/

100 - We Made It

We do the closest thing to a bonus episode. We get meta: lifting the veil on how we do the podcast, what we listen to, and the friends we’ve made along the way. Also lots of copyright, AI, and Georges Bataille. 

Media mentioned

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/08/the-fear-of-ai-just-killed-a-very-useful-tool/

https://blog.shaxpir.com/taking-down-prosecraft-io-37e189797121 

FSCI event: https://semanticclimate.org/p/en/events/fsci2023_event/

Carl Malamud corpus: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02895-8

https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/wet-tyrant-contest-feat-patrick-wyman/

https://tendersubjectpod.podbean.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_the_Eye

Acid Horizon episodes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/georges-bataille-sustainability-and-climate-change/id1512615438?i=1000623479739

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/georges-bataille-sustainability-and-climate-change/id1512615438?i=1000623904471

Stuart Kindall biography on Bataille https://www.amazon.com/Georges-Bataille-Critical-Stuart-Kendall/dp/1861893272/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingchi

Cargo Cult podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cargo-cult/id1687043930

Good Omens https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1869454/