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4055 Basel EVENTS Felicia Jing on AI and Revolutionary Desire – November 9, 2026
Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming –  November 13, 2026
Tyler Shoemaker on Reification and LLMs – November 17, 2026

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events

Felicia Jing on AI and Revolutionary Desire – November 9, 2026
Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Programming –  November 13, 2026
Tyler Shoemaker on Reification and LLMs – November 17, 2026
Meredith Martin on Poetry as Data – November 24, 2026
Fenwick McKelvey on Political Simulations – November 26, 2026
James E. Dobson on a New Technical Hermeneutics – December 1, 2026
Michael Piotrowski on Models of Uncertainty – December 8, 2026
Miriam Posner on the Birth of Logistics – December 15, 2026
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Amanda Wasielewski on Automated Images – November 3, 2026
Zachary Furste on Infrastructural Archives – October 27, 2026
Imogen Forbes-Macphail on the Aesthetics of Mathematical Proof – October 20, 2026
Workshop with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun – October 16, 2026
Pierre Depaz on Programming as Worldmaking– October 13, 2026
Error Correction Seminar – October 2, 2026
Gianni Gastaldi and John Terilla on a Critical Formalism – September 30, 2026
David M. Berry on the Vector Paradigm – September 29, 2026
Lachlan Kermode on Mathematical Materialism – May 25, 2026
Inaugural Lecture – May 12, 2026
Media/STS Symposium – May 7, 2026
Seb Franklin on Automation and Metaphor – March 23, 2026
Digital Theory book talk – March 4, 2026
Francesco Casetti on Benevolent Screens – December 10, 2025

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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
Ryan Healey
Pierre Depaz

Universität Basel - 2026
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