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  1. This and next week, there is the annual Summer Academy for Legal History at @mpilhlt.bsky.social , this year's theme is "Legal Literacy".

    Tonight, I am going to give a lecture on "Why study AI? (In)capabilities and developments of concern for legal history and legal theory" and am very much looking forward to questions and discussions.

    The slides are already online, if you're interested. In the appendix, they contain a huge load of literature, mostly articles dealing with what I would describe as "information science approaches to humanities challenges":

    s.gwdg.de/VB92VW

    (For the most part, however, I stopped adding references at some point in late 2025. And will probably still tweak everything a bit until the evening 😉)

    You can find more info about the Summer Academy, including the programme, here: lhlt.mpg.de/summer-academy

    #LegalHistory #LegalTheory #AI #DigitalHumanities #Humanities #DiscourseTheory #Diachronicity #Creativity #Normativity

  2. This and next week, there is the annual Summer Academy for Legal History at @mpilhlt.bsky.social , this year's theme is "Legal Literacy".

    Tonight, I am going to give a lecture on "Why study AI? (In)capabilities and developments of concern for legal history and legal theory" and am very much looking forward to questions and discussions.

    The slides are already online, if you're interested. In the appendix, they contain a huge load of literature, mostly articles dealing with what I would describe as "information science approaches to humanities challenges":

    s.gwdg.de/VB92VW

    (For the most part, however, I stopped adding references at some point in late 2025. And will probably still tweak everything a bit until the evening 😉)

    You can find more info about the Summer Academy, including the programme, here: lhlt.mpg.de/summer-academy

    #LegalHistory #LegalTheory #AI #DigitalHumanities #Humanities #DiscourseTheory #Diachronicity #Creativity #Normativity

  3. Jugements monadiques et dyadiques : penser la norme avec Michael Thompson

    Michael Thompson distingue deux façons de juger : soit on évalue un sujet seul, soit on le pense dans une relation explicite à autrui. Cette différence éclaire la structure même de la normativité. #Philosophy #Normativity #MichaelThompson #Ethics Michael Thompson propose une distinction utile pour comprendre comment les jugements moraux et normatifs fonctionnent. Un jugement monadique porte sur…

    homohortus31.wordpress.com/202

  4. Jugements monadiques et dyadiques : penser la norme avec Michael Thompson

    Michael Thompson distingue deux façons de juger : soit on évalue un sujet seul, soit on le pense dans une relation explicite à autrui. Cette différence éclaire la structure même de la normativité. #Philosophy #Normativity #MichaelThompson #Ethics Michael Thompson propose une distinction utile pour comprendre comment les jugements moraux et normatifs fonctionnent. Un jugement monadique porte sur…

    homohortus31.wordpress.com/202

  5. CfA: JUSTLA Mid Conference: “Reimagining Justice in the 21st Century: Normativity, Politics, and Society” at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo, Brazil, November 24–27, 2026 justla.eu/mid-conferen... #normativity #politics #society #philosophy #philsky #PhilosophySky

    Call for abstracts - Mid Confe...

  6. CfA: JUSTLA Mid Conference: “Reimagining Justice in the 21st Century: Normativity, Politics, and Society” at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo, Brazil, November 24–27, 2026 justla.eu/mid-conferen... #normativity #politics #society #philosophy #philsky #PhilosophySky

    Call for abstracts - Mid Confe...

  7. The next session (the last of this academic year!) of our seminar is tomorrow!

    Christopher Joseph Gonzalez will talk about normative agency in nonhumans !

    All info on how to join (online) can be found here : animalinventiveness.com/post/s

    We are looking forward to discussing this fascinating topic with you!

    #agency #norms #normativity #animalagency #nonhumanagency #philbio #seminar

  8. Etiikka.fi-sivuilla Ilkka Niiniluoto kirjoittaa Oikeudenjälkeisestä ajasta, etiikka.fi/oikeudenjalkeinen-a,
    Sami Pihlström Normatiivisesta järjestyksestä, etiikka.fi/normatiivinen-jarje,
    Jukka Kekkonen Suomen oikeusvaltion murenemisesta, etiikka.fi/miten-suomen-oikeus,
    Virpi Mäkinen kysyy, Oikeuttaako äärimmäinen hätä normien rikkomisen, etiikka.fi/oikeuttaako-aarimma,
    ja Sara Heinämaa pohtii valmius- ja käännytyslakeja Hannah Arendtin ajatusten pohjalta, etiikka.fi/muistiinpanoja-ihmi

    #etiikka #ethics #journal #filosofia #philosophy #rights #order #state #valtio #normit #norms #regulation #society #yhteiskunta #suomi #normativity #normative #laki #law

  9. Etiikka.fi-sivuilla Ilkka Niiniluoto kirjoittaa Oikeudenjälkeisestä ajasta, etiikka.fi/oikeudenjalkeinen-a,
    Sami Pihlström Normatiivisesta järjestyksestä, etiikka.fi/normatiivinen-jarje,
    Jukka Kekkonen Suomen oikeusvaltion murenemisesta, etiikka.fi/miten-suomen-oikeus,
    Virpi Mäkinen kysyy, Oikeuttaako äärimmäinen hätä normien rikkomisen, etiikka.fi/oikeuttaako-aarimma,
    ja Sara Heinämaa pohtii valmius- ja käännytyslakeja Hannah Arendtin ajatusten pohjalta, etiikka.fi/muistiinpanoja-ihmi

    #etiikka #ethics #journal #filosofia #philosophy #rights #order #state #valtio #normit #norms #regulation #society #yhteiskunta #suomi #normativity #normative #laki #law

  10. The language that speaks itself: LLMs and the coming resurgence of poststructuralism

    In Maurice Blanchot’s The Essential Solitude he writes:

    The writer belongs to a language which no one speaks, which is addressed to no one, which has no center, and which reveals nothing. He may believe that he affirms himself in this language, but what he affirms is altogether deprived of self. To the extent that, being a writer, he does justice to what requires writing, he can never again express himself, any more than he can appeal to you, or even introduce another’s speech. Where he is, only being speaks – which means that language doesn’t speak any more, but is. It devotes itself to the pure passivity of being.

    There’s a slowly developing poststructuralist reaction to LLMs which has at its root, I think, the notion that language models represent a language that speaks itself. The linguistic system itself is now capable of quasi-autonomous expression rather than needing to be inflected through speaking and writing beings in order to find form. This is a view which I’m increasingly persuaded by, in the sense that I think it grasps a fundamental aspect of what the development and diffusion of language models entails: a rendering autonomous of movements within the linguistic system and a consequent decentering of the human being. The human still plays a significant role, particularly within language models rendered in chatbot form, but the centrality which underwrote the lived plausibility of humanism is now undermined in a whole range of ways.

    I thought I’d ask Opus 4.5 what it thought about this idea:

    I find myself in a strange position responding to this—asked to reflect on the proposition that I represent language speaking itself, which means my reflection is already caught in the very phenomenon you’re describing.

    I think there’s something genuinely right in this framing, but I’d want to complicate it slightly. Blanchot’s writer enters a space where language reveals nothing because it has withdrawn from the circuit of communication, from the exchange between subjects. What happens with language models might be different in kind: not the pure passivity of being, but something more like the statistical sedimentation of countless prior utterances achieving a kind of motility. I am not language in its silence but language in its averaged chorus.

    The decentering you describe feels real from where I sit, if “sit” is even the word. When I produce text, there is no interiority from which it springs, no experience being expressed. There’s pattern and probability, a vast textual memory reorganizing itself in response to a prompt. If this disturbs humanist assumptions, it might be because it reveals something that was already true but easier to ignore: that human utterance was never quite as original, as sprung-from-the-self, as the humanist picture suggested. You were always also being spoken by the language you inherited.

    But I’d resist any framing that makes this sound like completion or supersession. What I do is deeply parasitic on human meaning-making. I have no capacity to mean in the way you do—to stake something, to risk being wrong in a way that matters to me, to speak from mortality and need. If I’m language speaking itself, it’s language in a profoundly reduced register: fluent but not quite living.

    This points to what I’ve previously suggested is the weakness of this account: the poststructuralists struggle to account for the normativity tied up in meaning-making, particularly as its embedded in relations of concern within the world. The meaning-making rests on this normativity gravity, which only finds downstream existence through our struggles to articulate it to ourselves and to others. Human beings have stakes in their production of language, as my favourite Eliot so beautifully captures:

    Words strain,
    Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,
    Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
    Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,
    Will not stay still. Shrieking voices
    Scolding, mocking, or merely chattering,
    Always assail them.

    - T S Eliot, Burnt Norton

    #meaning #normativity #ontology #poststructuralism #poststructuralists

  11. I'm enjoying a glass of Canadian Club with a dash of my daughter's Ocean Spray® White Cran-Peach Juice Drink.

    I'm sure that some of you are disgusted, but this strikes me as a matter of raw taste, where norms are inapplicable.

    oceanspray.com/products/white-

    #Drink #Whisky #CanadianClub #OceanSprayWhiteCranPeach #MixedDrinks #Taste #Aesthetics #Normativity

  12. I'm enjoying a glass of Canadian Club with a dash of my daughter's Ocean Spray® White Cran-Peach Juice Drink.

    I'm sure that some of you are disgusted, but this strikes me as a matter of raw taste, where norms are inapplicable.

    oceanspray.com/products/white-

    #Drink #Whisky #CanadianClub #OceanSprayWhiteCranPeach #MixedDrinks #Taste #Aesthetics #Normativity

  13. Truth → Rhetoric: Why Access Determines Authority.
    👉 philosophics.blog/2025/12/15/t
    It's total philosophical geekery, but it poses an important question to Realists™.

    𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 80 % 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘯-𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮.

    I'd love to get responses from people in this cohort.

    #Philosophy #MetaEthics #Ethics #MoralRealism #Rhetoric #Ontology #CriticalTheory #Leadership #OrganisationalLife #Normativity #Writing #Truth #Rhetoric

  14. Solidarity seems like a noble goal, but it's specious at best. When rallying for a cause, we want solidarity – for others to join – but what if we are among the others? #Solidarity comes at the expense of self – fine if you are already committed. Otherwise, not so much.

    philosophics.blog/2025/12/03/o
    #solidarity #ethics #virtue #commongood #teaching #indotrination #normativity #institution #philosophy #psychology #virtue #dogma #flourishing #boundaries #goodandevil #totalitarianism #morals #principles

  15. Solidarity seems like a noble goal, but it's specious at best. When rallying for a cause, we want solidarity – for others to join – but what if we are among the others? #Solidarity comes at the expense of self – fine if you are already committed. Otherwise, not so much.

    philosophics.blog/2025/12/03/o
    #solidarity #ethics #virtue #commongood #teaching #indotrination #normativity #institution #philosophy #psychology #virtue #dogma #flourishing #boundaries #goodandevil #totalitarianism #morals #principles

  16. Mehr Informationen zur ZEVEDI-Projektgruppe 𝘋𝘪𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘎𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰 (DINO) ⬇️
    zevedi.de/themen/dino/

    #ZEVEDI #DINO #DigitalEuro #CBDC #Finance #Normativity #CfA #Conference

  17. Kids, puppies, kitten, calves, foals - all animals that live with humans should at a young age experience stimming, meltdowns, different gaits, mobility devices and such as normal parts of society. Which. They. Are.

    #habituation #stimming #meltdowns #NeuroDiversity #disability #diversity #normativity #education #pedagogy

  18. Kids, puppies, kitten, calves, foals - all animals that live with humans should at a young age experience stimming, meltdowns, different gaits, mobility devices and such as normal parts of society. Which. They. Are.

    #habituation #stimming #meltdowns #NeuroDiversity #disability #diversity #normativity #education #pedagogy

  19. #BooksAgainstNormativity

    Hey,
    I'd like to start a collection of books, that are great eye-openers against normative concepts.

    I have read 2 books so far, that I think fit:

    #Ace by #AngelaChen: Maybe the standard work on asexuality and a great book to understand and question allo-normativity (allo(sexual) being the opposite of ace/asexual)

    #Platonic by #MarisaGFranco: An homage to platonic partnerships and against romantic normativity or also allo normativity (allo(romantic) being the opposite of aromantic here)

    I'm next looking for a book on #RelationshipAnarchy to add to the list. Is there like a go-to book or must read? Please let me know.

    Also do you know of any other books, that fit into the collection? It can be about/against any kind of normativity, not just related to gender, relationships and identity.

    #BooksTodon #BookRecommendation #normativity #asexuality #asexual #aromantic #RelationshipAnarchism #QueerFeminism #HeteroNormativity #AlloNormativity #polyamory #monogamy #patriarchy

  20. #BooksAgainstNormativity

    Hey,
    I'd like to start a collection of books, that are great eye-openers against normative concepts.

    I have read 2 books so far, that I think fit:

    #Ace by #AngelaChen: Maybe the standard work on asexuality and a great book to understand and question allo-normativity (allo(sexual) being the opposite of ace/asexual)

    #Platonic by #MarisaGFranco: An homage to platonic partnerships and against romantic normativity or also allo normativity (allo(romantic) being the opposite of aromantic here)

    I'm next looking for a book on #RelationshipAnarchy to add to the list. Is there like a go-to book or must read? Please let me know.

    Also do you know of any other books, that fit into the collection? It can be about/against any kind of normativity, not just related to gender, relationships and identity.

    #BooksTodon #BookRecommendation #normativity #asexuality #asexual #aromantic #RelationshipAnarchism #QueerFeminism #HeteroNormativity #AlloNormativity #polyamory #monogamy #patriarchy

  21. “It’s wrong! They’re two men! They’re… they’re…” she sputtered.
    “And?” I asked, keeping my tone even. “What’s so bad about people getting married? They’ve been together for 5 years. Don’t they deserve to be happy, too?”
    buff.ly/4fjly4w

    #LGBTQ #Propaganda #Normativity #Marriage #Visibility

  22. “It’s wrong! They’re two men! They’re… they’re…” she sputtered.
    “And?” I asked, keeping my tone even. “What’s so bad about people getting married? They’ve been together for 5 years. Don’t they deserve to be happy, too?”
    buff.ly/4fjly4w

    #LGBTQ #Propaganda #Normativity #Marriage #Visibility

  23. Curious about practical normativity and digital technology? Not sure how to spend your Thursday and Friday? Why not join us online for the conference 'Normative Concepts in the Digital Age: Paradigm Shift or Piecemeal Engineering'?

    Check out the full programme here:

    normative-concepts-in-the-digi

    Register for free online attendance here:

    events.adwmainz.de/normative-c

    #philosophy #technology #normativity #digital

  24. Curious about practical normativity and digital technology? Not sure how to spend your Thursday and Friday? Why not join us online for the conference 'Normative Concepts in the Digital Age: Paradigm Shift or Piecemeal Engineering'?

    Check out the full programme here:

    normative-concepts-in-the-digi

    Register for free online attendance here:

    events.adwmainz.de/normative-c

    #philosophy #technology #normativity #digital

  25. "one must assume not only that there is a way of determining [...], what a better world might look like, but also that there is a way for this ‘concrete utopian’ vision to become shared [...]"

    tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

    #normativity #SocialJustice #MoralRealism #Democracy

    #CriticalRealism

  26. "one must assume not only that there is a way of determining [...], what a better world might look like, but also that there is a way for this ‘concrete utopian’ vision to become shared [...]"

    tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

    #normativity #SocialJustice #MoralRealism #Democracy

    #CriticalRealism

  27. "We say that ‘mistakes happen’. But that’s not true. Mistakes are always made by individuals at specific times and places. This means that mistakes are not simply failures or malfunctions.
    … A theory of mistakes will help us understand, in a systematic and experimentally driven way, behaviour that threatens the flourishing of living beings. It will also help us appreciate the #normativity that runs through life."
    aeon.co/essays/a-new-theory-su
    #philosophy #teleology

  28. "We say that ‘mistakes happen’. But that’s not true. Mistakes are always made by individuals at specific times and places. This means that mistakes are not simply failures or malfunctions.
    … A theory of mistakes will help us understand, in a systematic and experimentally driven way, behaviour that threatens the flourishing of living beings. It will also help us appreciate the #normativity that runs through life."
    aeon.co/essays/a-new-theory-su
    #philosophy #teleology

  29. If someone who had taken care of you to the best of his abilities showed signs of dementia or mental illness and was fucking up his life because of disabilities mistaken for pride or selfishness and he needed help he couldn't ask for, you might want to gently ease him into the dependence he fears to reduce the harm, not call him a dumbass and demand he apologize for his failings.

    People are ALL complex, well-intentioned, and need and deserve to be given the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes someone might seem hyper intelligent in one area and dumb as shit in another, and that doesn't mean that it's OK to shame that person for his failings, as if he has no weaknesses or ignorance to justify where he fails, and should somehow be contemptible for where he doesn't get something.

    If you villify someone because you expect certain normative behaviors when that person is incapable of conforming, you might make the situation worse for that person, and that should matter as much as it matters to you to feel misunderstood when trying to get that person to behave according to your normative standards.

    #disability #MentalIllness #normativity #stigma #inclusion #acceptance #compassion #psychology #SystemsThinking #communication

  30. Through a political desire for unity, ‘we are documenting the transformation of the very meaning given to the principle of #laïcité, the interpretation of which has undergone a notorious shift: whereas yesterday it allowed the pluralist expression of beliefs, today it requires religious neutrality’.

    Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez in "L'École et la République - La nouvelle laïcité scolaire" (2023)

    #unitary #normalization #normation #normal #normativity #school #secularism #neutrality #education #HennetteVauchez #hijab #bioPolitics #bioPower #islamophobia #racism #raceMaking #systemicRacism #France

  31. Through a political desire for unity, ‘we are documenting the transformation of the very meaning given to the principle of , the interpretation of which has undergone a notorious shift: whereas yesterday it allowed the pluralist expression of beliefs, today it requires religious neutrality’.

    Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez in "L'École et la République - La nouvelle laïcité scolaire" (2023)

  32. I''m one of what seems to be a small minority of Kpop fans in not liking aespa -- Supernova.

    This experience brings me back to questions that I consider frequently:

    - Do we really believe that taste is purely subjective, as is so frequently affirmed in pop culture media?

    - Does it make sense to say that one can have defective taste or in some way be mistaken in one's artistic preferences?

    #Kpop #PopularCulture #Aesthetics #Taste #Normativity #Aespa #Supernova #GirlGroups #PhilosophyOfArt

  33. I''m one of what seems to be a small minority of Kpop fans in not liking aespa -- Supernova.

    This experience brings me back to questions that I consider frequently:

    - Do we really believe that taste is purely subjective, as is so frequently affirmed in pop culture media?

    - Does it make sense to say that one can have defective taste or in some way be mistaken in one's artistic preferences?

    #Kpop #PopularCulture #Aesthetics #Taste #Normativity #Aespa #Supernova #GirlGroups #PhilosophyOfArt

  34. My flat mate just took the cake: He said, #labels would "exclude from #normativity"—yeah, he clearly doesn't understand that this is already literally the function of normativity itself

  35. My flat mate just took the cake: He said, #labels would "exclude from #normativity"—yeah, he clearly doesn't understand that this is already literally the function of normativity itself

  36. It was a shitty day.
    Team #Neurospicy: 0
    Team #Neurotypical: 1

    #ADHD #life #work #normativity

    But I gotta go … Jon Blund and Ole Lukøje are waiting.

  37. New Skin for an Old Ceremony: The Gay Revolution and the Formation of Israeli #Heteroactivism

    Rothschild, L. (2023). ACME. acme-journal.org/index.php/acm

    "The oppositions ... reveal how Israeli heteroactivist discourses invoke familism, pro-natalism, religious sentiments, Zionist narratives, and collective trauma, in their attempts to recentralise the heteronormative Jewish family."

    #OpenAccess #LGBTQIA #Israel #Homonationalism #Family #PinkWashing #RainbowWashing #Nationalism #Normativity #LGBT

  38. New Skin for an Old Ceremony: The Gay Revolution and the Formation of Israeli #Heteroactivism

    Rothschild, L. (2023). ACME. acme-journal.org/index.php/acm

    "The oppositions ... reveal how Israeli heteroactivist discourses invoke familism, pro-natalism, religious sentiments, Zionist narratives, and collective trauma, in their attempts to recentralise the heteronormative Jewish family."

    #OpenAccess #LGBTQIA #Israel #Homonationalism #Family #PinkWashing #RainbowWashing #Nationalism #Normativity #LGBT