Digital Theory (December 2025). M. Beatrice Fazi, Alexander Galloway, Matthew Handelman, Leif Weatherby. University of Minnesota Press.
Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism (June 2025). Leif Weatherby. University of Minnesota Press.
“Cave Machines: On the Platonic Representation Hypothesis” (October 2026). M. Beatrice Fazi. PostScriptUM 56.
“On the Calculation of Meaning, or Doing Words without Things” (March 2026). Mercedes Bunz. Critical Inquiry, Volume 52, Issue 3.
“Systems Programming the Model” (March 2026). Tyler Shoemaker. AI & Society.
“A Transcendental Philosophy of Large Language Models” (July 2025). M. Beatrice Fazi. Philosophy & Digitality.
Surplus Data (February 2022). Special issue edited by Lab members. Critical Inquiry, Volume 48, Issue 2.
Introduction to Interpretability for Language Models (July 2026). Two-week workshop.
Introduction to Interpretability for Language Models (July 2024). Three-week workshop.
Our working group sessions are conducted throughout the academic year, bringing together Lab members for discussions on readings and the theoretical dimensions of computational practice. Past syllabi are available on request. The working group is currently run by Tyler Shoemaker.
The Language of Language Machines (LOLM) is a working group to produce a critical vocabulary for understanding contemporary (post-2015) natural language processing (NLP) literature. The working group is currently run by Lachlan Kermode and Ryan Healey.