**General**: soniadejager at protonmail dot com **WdKa**: s.de.jager at hr dot nl **ESPhil**: dejager at esphil dor eur dot nl **N.R.U.**: noiseresearchunion at protonmail dot com If you want to leave anonymous feedback on anything on this website, it is more than welcome, and can be placed [here](https://pad.riseup.net/p/poltergeistfeedback-keep). For publicity purposes please use this image: ![[human torus22.jpg|500]] <small>Human as a torus, still, 2010. Can also be interpreted as the identity operator or the eternal return to a hypertelos.</small> Or the moving image version: ![[human torus21.gif|500]] <small>Human as a torus, gif loop, 2010.</small> If you need a “human face” you can use this: ![[Sonia_de_Jager.jpg|500]] If you need a bio you can use any of these: I am currently (2024) completing a dissertation on the philosophy of (natural) language-modulation. The project is premised on Active Inference, a unifying framework which grounds the dynamics of cognition—extended and expanded into collectives, technological tendrils and beyond—under the axis of variational free energy-minimization. My main interest is in exploring the productive constraints implied by this framework, and what these might mean for distant images of ourselves. The PhD project has taken the form of a so-called “living book” and can be found at: www.n-o.ooo. Besides this, together with five other scholars we function as the Noise Research Union (NRU), where we work on the concept of noise and its multiple (evolving) interpretations. We organize diagramming workshops, research seminars and collective publications. More information can be found at: www.n-r-u-.xyz. I also teach at the art academy in Rotterdam, and at the design academy in Eindhoven. At both these institutions my focus is exploring philosophy through art and design (and vice versa), and motivating students to chase the philosophical implications of their interests and embeddings. ∨ Sonia de Jager is a PhD student at the Erasmus School of Philosophy. Besides deskwork at the feet of a dissertation, de Jager works on Patient Analyses (long-duration composition), Regenerative Feedback (music and philosophy conference), and is a member of the Noise Research Union. More information at n-o.ooo. De Jager sees a future at the intersection between language-modulation and neuroendocrinology. ∨ 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_, the _Noise Research Union_ (n-r-u.xyz), _Patient Analyses_, and hybernating ones include _Regenerative Feedback_ and _Critical Mass Commitment_. More information can be found at n-o.ooo. ∨ S. de Jager begins here, which is, of course, a lie. De repente, se arrepiente: is completing a dissertation on the artificiality of intelligence as linguistic modulation, and odd number vice versa. At the same time, for less time, de Jager sweats philosophy, critical theory and experimental writing methods at different art education institutions. At the same time, for less time, de Jager works on a long musical composition titled _Patient Analyses._ This never ends. At the same time, though currently on a hiatus, de Jager labors on the philosophy+music project _Regenerative Feedback_. Currently also on a hiatus: why very possible. De Jager _hates_ money but tends to accept it, for now. De Jager is a member of the _Noise Research Union_, more information about de Jager can be found at: https://n-o.ooo. Escalera. ∨ S. de Jager is a PhD researcher (philosophy of AI) at ESPhil + a theory tutor at WdKA, DAE + a member of the Noise Research Union + organizer of Regenerative Feedback. “Academic” work spans language-modeling, sound studies and predictive processing philosophy, all grounded in critical, radical traditions which aim to unsettle objectivist, authoritarian frameworks negatively constraining contemporary images of communication and computation. More information can be found at: https://n-o.ooo. ∨ Sonia de Jager (Buenos Aires, 1988) is a PhD researcher at the Erasmus School of Philosophy, Rotterdam. Her interests span predictive processing philosophy, natural language processing and computational semantics, as well as critical, radical traditions which unsettle the objectivist frameworks maladaptively constraining contemporary cognition and computation. De Jager is a member of the Noise Research Union and organizes the sound philosophy conference Regenerative Feedback. ∨ S. de Jager _mostly_ works on a PhD on the concepts of artificiality and intelligence. At the same time, for less time, de Jager teaches theory and writing methods at the WdKA and the DAE. At the same time, for around the same time as teaching, de Jager works on a long musical composition titled _Patient Analyses._ At the same time, though currently on a hiatus, de Jager works on the philosophy+music project _Regenerative Feedback_. Currently also on a hiatus, projects in media such as photography and film. De Jager is a member of the _Noise Research Union_, more information about de Jager can be found at: https://n-o.ooo ∨ Sonia de Jager - S. de Jager is a A a cld -sj a. Ad -- a a, a, b/. c. More information at www.n-o.ooo. ∨ Sonia de Jager is a speculative toad-eater pursuing a PhD in philosophy in Rotterdam, with a somewhat blasphemous project attempting periconceptual analysis of some questionable aspects of the global phenomenon that is ““artificial” “intelligence”.” De Jager also actively promotes critical mass commitment at the Rotterdam art academy. ∨ Sonia de Jager is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the _Erasmus School of Philosophy_, Rotterdam. De Jager’s project combines transdisciplinary perspectives in order to analyze the biopsychosocial underpinnings that ground normalizing concepts in the pursuit of artificially intelligent language modelling. ∨ S. (Sonia) de Jager (Buenos Aires, 1988) studied at the Rietveld Academy, Leiden University and the UvA, and currently works as a doctoral researcher at Erasmus University, writing a thesis about AI, philosophy and _language modulation_. De Jager also lectures at the Willem de Kooning Academie and runs the music and philosophy conference series _Regenerative Feedback._ De Jager works primarily in self-interrogating media, with a strong focus on dysfunctional visuals, sound as an instrument and text as eternally-returning punishment. More information at: [https://n-o.ooo](https://n-o.ooo). ∨ S. de Jager is a PhD student at the Erasmus School of Philosophy and a lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academie. Interests are driven by seeking ever-novel understandings of the computation(s) of life: from neuroendocrinology to the rhythmicality of social organization. ∨ S. de Jager is S. de Jager is S. de Jager is S. de Jager, see: S. de Jager.