[{"content":"Language Machines Network is a research network at the intersection of linguistic anthropology, LLMs, science and technology studies (STS), and related fields. We meet monthly online to discuss pre-circulated work — our own and others\u0026rsquo; — on language and large language models.\nOur work includes a special issue on \u0026ldquo;Language Machines\u0026rdquo; in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, which continues to accept contributions on a rolling basis — see the Cite Club page for our publications and curated readings, and the Calendar for our reading group schedule.\nClick here for Leif Weatherby\u0026rsquo;s excellent book Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism.\nJoin us #To join the mailing list, email languagemachinesnetwork@gmail.com. We add people to the list individually, so tell us a bit about your interest in the network when you write in.\n","date":null,"permalink":"https://languagemachines.net/","section":"Language Machines Network","summary":"","title":"Language Machines Network"},{"content":"News and announcements from the Language Machines Network.\n","date":null,"permalink":"https://languagemachines.net/news/","section":"News","summary":"","title":"News"},{"content":"This is a placeholder announcement so the news section has something to show. Delete this post, or add new ones in content/en/news/ — each one shows up here and on the homepage automatically, most recent first.\n","date":"9 September 2026","permalink":"https://languagemachines.net/news/welcome/","section":"News","summary":"","title":"Welcome to the new Language Machines Network site"},{"content":"The Language Machines Reading Group meets monthly online to discuss pre-circulated papers. To join, email languagemachinesnetwork@gmail.com.\nUpcoming # Date Presenter Title 21 September 2026 Austin Kozlowski (University of Chicago) Computational structuralism 19 October 2026 Graham Jones (MIT) AI and Education (The MIT Report) 16 November 2026 Lucy Suchman (Lancaster) What is language? 21 December 2026 Haley Lepp (Stanford) Populist Science: The collapse of peer review and rise of virality-based evaluation in AI research 18 January 2027 Jason Litzenberg Chapter from his forthcoming book The Language Singularity: Posthumanist Language Teaching in the Age of AI 15 February 2027 TBA TBA 15 March 2027 TBA TBA 19 April 2027 Qi Hong (Toronto) Automatic Speech Recognition and China\u0026rsquo;s Cold War Technopolitics, 1958–1991 17 May 2027 (tentative — may move for Whit Monday) TBA TBA 12 June 2027 TBA TBA Past Meetings # Date Presenter Title 15 June 2026 Zion Mengesha and Sharese King Synthetic Selves: Race, Gender, Sexuality and the Language of AI Personas 18 May 2026 Lisa Messeri AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science 20 April 2026 Justine Zhang LLMs and the logistics imaginary 16 February 2026 Spencer Kaplan Artificial Agency / \u0026ldquo;You can just do things\u0026rdquo; 19 January 2026 Leif Weatherby Talk on his book Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism 15 December 2025 Jack La Violette and Mikael Brunila Metalanguage, ideology, and alienation in the age of generative AI 24 November 2025 Evan Donahue Structuralism, Vector Spaces, and the Science of Meaning 20 October 2025 Janet Connor Echoing Voices: LLMs and Public Opinion in Deliberative Democracy 29 September 2025 Joe Wilson Entextualizing and purifying multilingual training data in an open-science project 16 June 2025 Anna \u0026amp; Noya Beyond the Imitation Game: Human tests for machine models 19 May 2025 Raffaele Buono Hylomorphic language models? Use, serendipity and openness in LLM-equipped robots 21 April 2025 Zachary What is the Matrix?: Linguistic Tokens in Higher Dimensions from wafq Talismans to Machine Learning Algorithms 17 March 2025 Nils Klowait and Maria Erofeeva Nonhuman Situational Enmeshment – How Participants Build Temporal Infrastructures for ChatGPT 17 February 2025 Ole Puetz Co-text is all you need January 2025 Courtney Handman The Chatbot\u0026rsquo;s Real Self December 2024 Webb Keane Animals, Robots, Gods November 2024 Gabriella Chronis NLP as Language Ideology October 2024 Paul Kockelman Last Words September 2024 Michael Castelle Contextualizing High-Dimensional Communication ","date":null,"permalink":"https://languagemachines.net/calendar/","section":"Calendar","summary":"","title":"Calendar"},{"content":"Our curated Zotero library: readings we\u0026rsquo;ve discussed or want to discuss, and publications produced by the network. Browse the full library directly on Zotero.\n","date":null,"permalink":"https://languagemachines.net/cite-club/","section":"Cite Club","summary":"","title":"Cite Club"},{"content":" People # Projects \u0026amp; Networks # Other # ","date":null,"permalink":"https://languagemachines.net/links/","section":"Links","summary":"","title":"Links"},{"content":"","date":null,"permalink":"https://languagemachines.net/tags/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Tags"},{"content":"The Network grew out of a double panel on “LLMs and the Language Sciences: Material, Semiotic, and Linguistic Perspectives from STS and Linguistic Anthropology” which we organized at EASST-4S in Amsterdam in July 2024. Previously, Siri organized the Technolinguistic in Practice conference at Siegen in 2024.\nSiri Lamoureaux #Role/title here.\nBio placeholder — a few sentences about background and research interests.\nAnna Weichselbraun #Role/title here.\nBio placeholder — a few sentences about background and research interests.\nMichael Castelle #Role/title here.\nBio placeholder — a few sentences about background and research interests.\n","date":null,"permalink":"https://languagemachines.net/who-we-are/","section":"Who We Are","summary":"","title":"Who We Are"}]