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Matthew Kirschenbaum
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A point I will make next week is that I believe the salient fact of the Hugging Face incident is not any of the discourse about consciousness or agency, but that the internet and all adjacent infrastructure offer a common manipulable/executable substrate. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.…
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- Matthew Kirschenbaum will deliver 'Textpocalypse Now' at Oxford's Weston Library on 22 October 2026, chaired by Bodley's Librarian Richard Ovenden.
- He argues the open internet is 'no longer composed primarily of writing written by human beings' but is now written by computers for other computers.
- The free, fully-booked hour-long lecture asks what libraries and universities can do if this trend fulfils the internet's existing capital logics.
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