From arxiv.org
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In the midst of the growing integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into various aspects of our lives, agents are experiencing a resurgence. These autonomous programs that act on behalf of humans are neither new nor exclusive to the mainstream AI movement. By exploring past incarnations of...
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From pdimagearchive.org
‘Group at Ballard Park on August 14, 1898’ by Theresa Babb (1898)
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Group at Ballard Park on August 14, 1898: Mary Knight, Fannie Fuller, Marian Goodwin, Alice Merriam, & Grace Parker
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From pdimagearchive.org
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Frontispiece to Fridtjof Nansen's *In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times*, 1911.
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“Here I Gather All the Friends”: Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study
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Reading is a form of necromancy, a way to summon and commune once again with the dead, but in what ersatz temple should such a ritual take place? Andrew Hui tracks the rise of the private study by revisiting the bibliographic imaginations of Machiavelli, Montaigne, and W. E. B. Du Bois, and...
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