Hello, my name is Sonia de Jager. ![[1000 Images website/gb90.jpg]] S. de Jager lives in Rotterdam and can be more specifically found at the WdKA and at the Erasmus School of Philosophy. Works across different disciplines, observing the shapes of thought under different regimes, and how these shapes and regimes are constrained by legitimacies (as legacies, linguae, lingoes), always chasing after questions pertaining to what thought even _is_. Current projects include _The Poltergeist in the Machine_ (as of 2026: [[Computing Geist]]), the _Noise Research Union_ (n-r-u.xyz), _Patient Analyses_, and hibernating ones include _Regenerative Feedback_ and _Critical Mass Commitment_. More information can be found below. <small>For current positions and publications scroll down. For a detailed overview of future, current & past activities, see the landing page:</small> [[🅴🆅🅴🅽🆃🆂]]. &emsp; ### 🅰🅲🆃🅸🆅🅴 🆆🅸🆃🅷🅸🅽 🅸🅽🆂🆃🅸🆃🆄🆃🅸🅾🅽🆂 [**Erasmus School of Philosophy**](https://www.eur.nl/en/people/sonia-de-jager). Conducting **PostDoc** research activities (philosophy of computation) and teaching (primarily related to the integration of language models, and comparable tech, into the classroom).^[Notwithstanding [EUR's ~~policing~~ policies.](https://www.erasmusmagazine.nl/en/2023/02/22/in-praise-of-flatness-on-campus-protest-and-academic-community/?noredirect=en_US) See also: [this](https://www.erasmusmagazine.nl/2024/06/05/meer-dan-100-000-euro-schade-door-bekladdingen-en-schade-aan-scherm/).] Dissertation: _The [[Poltergeist in the Machine]]_, defense 6 February 2026. **Willem de Kooning Academy**: **Teaching**: _languaging_, _musicking_ and _critical technological thinking,_ (previously at HP, headed by Sami Hammana, until 2025). 2019-ongoing (no longer at HP). See: _005.1 Classes and seminars_ for some of the classes given. **Design Academy Eindhoven**. Research methods/thesis **tutoring** at the _[Critical Inquiry Lab](https://criticalinquirylab.com/About-the-Program),_ headed by [Patricia Reed](https://aestheticmanagement.com/). 2023-ongoing. See: _005.1 Classes and seminars_ for some of the classes given. &emsp; ### 🆆🅸🆃🅷🅸🅽 🆁🅴🆂🅴🅰🆁🅲🅷 🅶🆁🅾🆄🅿🆂 [**N.R.U.**](https://n-r-u.xyz/) (project website, see also: [[NRU]] on this website), _Noise Research Union_, **research collective** together with Cécile Malaspina, Inigo Wilkins, Martina Raponi, Mattin, Miguel Prado. 2020-ongoing. **[[Indeterminacy]] research group**, together with Yağmur Denizhan, Alicia Juarrero, Muindi F. Muindi, Cécile Malaspina and Xin Wei Sha. 2023-ongoing. Contributing to the [[ⓓesire and ¢apital]] project, led by Ryan Kopaitich, 2021-ongoing. **[[000 About Patient Analyses]]**, ongoing **sonic series** by S. de Jager. Currently collaborating on: - [[ⒷⓈⓟⓛⓘⓝⓔ]] the search for the final, _real_ recursion, by turning **sound** into an **instrument**, together with [PAULBAS](www.paulbas.org) and **[[Zorro Fork]]**. &emsp; ### 🅿🆄🅱🅻🅸🅲🅰🆃🅸🅾🅽🆂 %% add michael interview %% Forthcoming in *Artistic Image Scientific Imagination* (ed. Amanda Beech and Daniel Sacilotto): [[04 Concepts as pre-dictions]], adapted version. “[Post-Control Script-Societies: Social Power Dynamics Through Attention Mechanisms as Active Inference](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-026-10458-7)”, co-authored w/ Mahault Albarracin, Aug 2026, _Topoi_. “[SHARE: Social-Humanities AI for Research and Education](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11152)” João Gonçalves, Sonia de Jager, Petr Knoth, David Pride, Nick Jelicic, _arXiv preprint_, April 2026. _The [[Poltergeist in the Machine]]: Sedimented, semantic, social and spectral perspectives on prediction in the artificial mind_, PhD Dissertation (received _cum laude_ distinction), ISBN: 9789090417103, Erasmus University, 2026. “[[Edging thermodynamic equilibrium]]: MEs as “mirror” encounters between the entropic brain and the entropic world”, in [_Philosophical Psychology_ special issue](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09515089.2025.2571045), 2025. [[THE PATTERN BUTCHER]], short story about an advanced technological planet dealing with problems of compression. [[NRU]] Zine 3, together with Diede van Ommen and [[NRU]] + workshop participants. “[The Physics and Metaphysics of Social Powers: Bridging Cognitive Processing and Social Dynamics, a New Perspective on Power Through Active Inference](https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27/5/522)”, M. Albarracin, S. de Jager, D. Hyland, special issue AIF in cog-sci, *Entropy* 2025, 27(5), 522; https://doi.org/10.3390/e27050522. “[[A humorous take on hormones]]”, _Twijfel_ Spring issue on the theme of _Illness_, 2025. Special thanks to Boudewijn de Wit. “[[07 Phenomenology of Sick Spirit]]” at [The Paradoxes of Madness](https://www.psychiatrieenfilosofie.nl/too-mad-to-be-true-iii), October 2024. “What is the future? Prophecy, providence, preference, pattern, planning, prognosis, persistence, procreation: [[05 Prediction]]” EN and NL versions. “Active Ignorance”, co-authored w/ Jimena Clavel Vázquez and Inigo Wilkins, forthcoming. Presented at: [[Predictive Self-Modeling and the Phenomenology of Psychosis]]. Forthcoming. “[[09 C is for Communism, and Constraint|09 C is for Communism, and Constraint]]”, part of [[ⓓesire and ¢apital]], 2023. _NRU Zine 2_, together with Diede van Ommen and [[NRU]] + workshop participants. “[Conceptual Stagnation in Natural Language Processing](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0969725X.2023.2216555?src=.)”, Angelaki, Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, Volume 28, 2023 - Issue 3: _from the mental state of noise to the new frontiers of cognition_. _Negintelligibility_, presented at University of Tokyo, May 2023, and at _Schematism_ conference EUR/v2/TU Vienna project, 2023, published version forthcoming. [[AI is plastic, plastic is AI]], 2023 presented at v2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, May 11 2023. “[[11 Post-Control Script-Societies]]”, presented at _Social Dissonance Series_, UWE + _Collège International de Philosophie_, Bristol, April 2023. [[Del Horror en la Copia]], self-published and presented during WdKA P2 at _Rib_, Rotterdam, 2023. _Contraption_ (reprise), published by Flora Yin-Wong, [_Doyenne ii: Singing to Spirits_](https://doyenne-books.bandcamp.com/merch/doyenne-002-singing-to-spirits), launch at Café OTO, June 2023. “Semantic Noise in the Winograd Schema Challenge of Pronoun Disambiguation”, _Humanities and Social Sciences Communications_ (Nature Springer), March 2023, [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-023-01643-9](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-023-01643-9). “[[06 Principle of Sufficient Interest]]”, thesis chapter, presented at _The New Centre for Research & Practice_, NYC, August 2022, print version forthcoming. _NRU Zine 1_, together with Diede van Ommen and [[NRU]] + workshop participants. “Falling Into Place: Gravitationally-bound Prediction”, _Philosophy After AI, The Society for the study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour_, 2021. AISB version contains editorial errors, please see version published here: [[10 Bias, or Falling into Place]]. “[On the Categorical](https://arias.amsterdam/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/SoniaDeJager-BeardedWomen.pdf)” interviewed by ARIAS, _Platform for Research through the Arts and Sciences_, Amsterdam, 2020. “[Ghosts, Grids, Networks, Machines, Mirrors, and the Number 1: A story about machines learning](https://tijdschriftkunstlicht.nl/vol-40-no-4-2019-on-mechanical-eyes-seeing-machines/)”, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, _Kunstlicht: On Mechanical Eyes, Seeing Machines_, 2019. Who is ‘we’? And what is ‘why’? A conversation between Sonia de Jager and Gerard de Zeeuw, (on what falls through the cracks)” ([[Who is we and what is why]]), _AI & Society_ Springer Journal, 2019. [Glass Bead](http://www.glass-bead.org/event/site-1-launch-event/?lang=enview), image design for “Site 1: Logic Gate, _the Politics of the Artifactual Mind”, ZKM, Center for Art and Media, 9 Nov 2017. [[🄜 🄐 🄢 🄚 🄔 🄝, 🄛]], mask sculptures, produced at [Polly’s Playground](https://malenki.net/product/pollys-playground-pollys-picture-show/), collaboration with _Polly’s Picture Show_, Hotel Maria Kapel, ISBN 978­90­79479­07­8. 2017. [[Not Yet Fording, Not Yet Complete]], HTML. Experimental philosophy composed only of _cut&paste_. Designed together with Marine Delgado, published by [Glass Bead](https://a-ttribute.neocities.org/glass-bead.org), Paris, 2016. [[𝕍𝕖𝕟𝕦𝕤 𝕕𝕖 𝕄𝕚𝕝𝕠 𝕚𝕤 𝕒 𝕄𝕒𝕟]], sampling project, music: S. de Jager, images: [Lotte Reimann](www.lottereimann.de), label and distro: [Samling Recordings](https://samlingrecordings.com/), co-released with [Studio 47](http://studio-47.org/press). ISBN 978-90-822850-1-7, 2014. [[The Author Has Collected The Remarks Of Various People With Differing Opinions, But Has {Not} Ommitted Citing His Authorities And Has {N̷o̷t̷} Attributed Each Remark To The One Who Said It.]], chronologically linear citational reflections through _The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism_ (2001), second edition (2010), W. W. Norton and Company, New York. This following text was produced in the academic context of a critical theory classroom at the _University of Leiden_ in 2014. Housed by Studio 47 Press, designed by Carla Peer, presented at UNSEEN (Amsterdam, 2015). Made possible with the kind support of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. ISBN: 978-90-822850-0-0, part of the Literary Criticism canon at the _Dutch National Library_ collection, 2012-2014. [[❝𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐔𝐀𝐋 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐄❞]] PDF, 2015. An experimental thesis on cultural technologies. Printed, edited by hand, scanned, printed and scanned again. Published by Studio 47 and [Post-Digital Culture](http://post-digital-culture.org/de_jager/). Presented at Oregon University "What is Media?" conference (2016), at Studio 47's Season Finale (2016), at Poortgebouw, Rotterdam (2015), and at the [Jan van Eyck Alumni Association](http://www.jvea.org), Berlin. Audiovisual version w/ music composed by Keimpe Koldijk & Wouter Venema. Made possible with the kind support of the Van Beek-Donner Stichting, Rotterdam. Reviewed by Lotte van Geijn for Metropolis M. _[[I am Pierre Menard]]_, inconclusive _bildungsroman_ inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, self-published as graduation project, GRA BFA, 2011. [[𝙲𝙾𝙽𝚃𝚁𝙰𝙿𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽]], GRA, 2011. [[A Theory of Parody]], zine referencing Linda Hutcheon's _A Theory of Parody_ (University of Illinois Press, 2000) and conversing with Frank Zappa's "The Adventures of Greggery Peccary" (_Studio Tan_, 1978). Scanned details, dimensions: 20x25cm. Drawn during fall of 2008. _Ephemeral musical entertainments through the years_: DJ [Musique Croquette](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTJl10yj9UU), DJ [Der Neinsager / Der Jasager](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fMzW9Sfaa0), DJduo: [Derretida](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YNxQ3UjZxY) (w/ le Sami), [Derretida reprise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-2czJkKiUM), DJ Silent Retrete, DJ Dukrabit, DJ Whoso, DJ [Calavera no chilla](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMVqlL7HE38), DJ enough, Ei, Academic dishonesty, DJ Manicomio, [Zorro Fork](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8AwfOdn6Zw), DJ bankruptcy, [[(Re)sentimiento Hardware]], DJ Trauerspiel, DJ olor a culo, [[DJ alles draait (om cijfers en om macht)]], DJ Lange Kabouter van de Nacht, (M)anomie, Dice (after Stéphane Mallarmé and Dice lounge in Charlois, Rotterdam), DJ Typeproto, DJ Rotonde, [[Kurk Curtain]]. &emsp; ### 🆂🅻🅴🅴🅿🅸🅽🅶 🅿🆁🅾🅹🅴🅲🆃🆂 Patient analyses: [[Zoetermeer]] and [[Deschryver-Dambrauskas]]. Member of various [ARIAS](https://arias.amsterdam/) **research groups**, 2023 - paused. **[[N0.]]**, a **remake** of Deleuze and Parnet’s _abécédaire_, but with numbers instead of letters. And with several people, not just _the one_. Together with [Sami Hammana](https://www.schizoaesthetic.org/), 2021-?. Partly made possible by Boris Debackere, v2_. Visuals for _Molassess_, together w/ Ioana Tomici, e.g., “[The Devil Lives](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTGxrqSA9TI)”, 2022 - paused. **[[Crotoplacistas]]**, short-term **performance** and script series, 2007 - present. **[[Regenerative Feedback]]**, music and philosophy **conference**, first iteration: Issue Project Room, NYC, 2018, second iteration: WORM, Rotterdam, 2019. 2017 - paused. **[[Critical Mass Commitment]]**, 2009 - paused, **reading group**. **[[000 About R. Mano]]**, **nefastas artes** _plásticas_, 1990 - present. **[[Left Hand Path]]** (part of sleeping [[000 About R. Mano]]). ### 🅲🅾🅽🆃🅰🅲🆃 a @ n-o.ooo ![[path dir.png]]