{"id":5345,"date":"2026-04-24T11:27:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?page_id=5345"},"modified":"2026-04-24T11:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:30:17","slug":"dr-jacobs-performance-lecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?page_id=5345","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Jacobs Performance Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this 45 minute performance-lecture, \u201cDr. Jacobs\u201d tells a tale of creating an AI descendant. Professor in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Dr. Jacobs is approaching retirement and has been invited to join\u00a0Afterglow<\/em>, a secret corporate program through which a select group of ageing academics are invited to use AI models and turn themselves into \u201cAI professors.\u201d These are full-body humanoids who have extracted the entire intellectual make-up of the human professor, but who are required by contract to be 20 years younger. Dr. Jacobs explains the pains and pleasures of working for\u00a0Afterglow<\/em>\u00a0and the birth of splendidly queer offspring\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo’s and videos of the performance-lecture that took place at Ghent University’ LilI’s Unruly Spring, <\/a>were taken by Dr. Giulia Nazzaro. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this 45 minute performance-lecture, \u201cDr. Jacobs\u201d tells a tale of creating an AI descendant. Professor in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Dr. Jacobs is approaching retirement and has been invited to join\u00a0Afterglow, a secret corporate program through which a select group of ageing academics are invited to use AI models and turn themselves into \u201cAI… Continue reading Dr. Jacobs Performance Lecture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5345","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5359,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5345\/revisions\/5359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}