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Jun 9

The latest issue of Critical Inquiry includes my and William Diebold's translation of Erwin Panofsky's first publication, as well as an introduction to it. Check it out in the link below!

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Critical Inquiry

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Jun 9

Summer is here. Check out the latest issue! criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/past_issues/is

Anna Dorofeeva

@LitteraCarolina

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It’s real!

Cover for a book by Anna Dorofeeva, titled “Reading Nature in the Early Middle Ages. Writing, Language, and Creation in the Latin Physiologus, ca. 700-1000.” The publisher is Arc Humanities Pres. The cover is grey, with red and yellow bands, the text is white. At the top is an image from a medieval manuscript, of a sad horned devil in a bath.

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Arc Humanities Press

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And should anyone be tempted to think we're only talking about painted portraiture, here's the section in our piece on photography.

With the advent of the photographic portrait, European intellectuals took these pseudo-scientific endeavors further, leveraging this latest technology to lend credibility to the emerging field of psychology. The polymathic eugenicist Francis Galton, for example, believed that criminality manifested in the face. Associating facial features with behavioral tendencies, he invented “pictorial statistics” to fabricate composite portraits of the “criminal type.” Using software to seek out signs of a valued personality trait in paintings may not exactly be phrenology, but its intellectual forebears are. Operating with complete ignorance of this history is just one area where such scientific studies can go horribly wrong.

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Stop publishing pseudo-science with AI, @Nature. No, AI cannot detect political ideology, beauty or sexual orientation: "For females (though not males), high attractiveness scores were found among those the model identified as likely to be conservative." nature.com/articles/s4159

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Someone's professor was living rent-free in his head for 30 years.

Clearly modern metrologists have been far closer to the mark.
and virtually on the mark, so to speak, in relating these mint weights
than was my graduate school professor.

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benjamin aldes wurgaft

@benwurgaft

If I express skepticism about the humanistic potentials of technology, it's in part because the same imagination that wants to collaborate with Google can encompass the impulse to fire all the humanists.

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UEA firing 100 staff & fac from the arts & humanities the same month they announce a collaboration with Google to invest more in teaching machine learning is infuriating. Utterly, utterly infuriating.

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And should anyone be tempted to think we're only talking about painted portraiture, here's the section in our piece on photography.

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It's to combat heinous research like this that

@Yael_Rice

and I published hyperallergic.com/604897/how-sci

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Aparna Nair

@DisabilityStor1

This article is proof of why scientists need the humanities and social sciences but they’re too busy being delighted they reinvented physiognomy, but ‘sciencier’ and ‘techier’ Someone PLEASE stop the techbrodudes. nature.com/articles/s4159

Jun 21

If there is one valuablre thing I took away from reading all of the Paston letters, it's letting my husband know I don't want to elaborate on something via text message by texting "I'll tell you by mouth."

Simcha Gross

@Simcha_Gross

Jun 21

See now this fascinating piece for further context about these forgeries & the media frenzies that surround & legitimate them: twitter.com/eviehandby/sta Since posting this over 2 years ago, I have seen several additional attempts to peddle these items, including to my university.

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Simcha Gross

@Simcha_Gross

Mar 30, 2021

Another day, another media outlet breathlessly covering the discovery/recovery of an "ancient Torah scroll" that is obviously fake. This time @Jerusalem_Post. Do some research. Consult with experts. They are within easy reach. Many are on twitter. jpost.com/judaism/2500-y

Christopher Nygren

@chris_nygren

Jun 21

Hello early modernists! Please have a look at this the CFP for a session I'm co-organizing at RSA 2024, "Early Modern Art and the Underground." Art, here, is not limited to visual arts. Open to lit, theater, etc. Please circulate! rsa.org/forms/FormResp

Yael Rice

@Yael_Rice

May 31

"Art History & the Digital": a conversation with Nancy Um

@NancyUm1

, Deepthi Murali

@drdeepthimurali

, Priya Jaradi, & me. 22 June 11:30am-1:00pm AEST, part of the 2023 Sydney Asian Art Series. To register: powerpublications.com.au/art-history-an

Poster for "Art History and the Digital" showing names of participants, time/date. It is hot pink-colored with computer-generated blue forms.

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Most of these societies run on membership dues and do a lot of legwork to promote the topics and communities they support. Acknowledgements go a long way to making ppl aware of these orgs. And it's a gracious thing to do.

Jun 20

Over the course of five years I have been the chair of two different committees for scholarly societies that support events and projects financially. Please remember to acknowledge those societies in publications that emerge from events they support. +

Jun 19

Ce français like this, c'est perfect. Je ne want pas parler français any autre way.

A mixture of French and Middle English, which contains items such as les wirkyng-bord cum 1 les deske and grett les forgeyng hamers.

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