Haven't been on Bluesky for a while, so I am yet to share some highlights from previous weeks.

Here's the 70-minute long interview I gave to the amazing Ian Tennant, honoured to be part of his great channel InnerSense.

We touched on hype, AI, magic, capital, and more...

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Artificial Intelligence: To Participate or to Abolish? Artificial Intelligence is a threat and a promise; as the world grapples with understanding its prospects and dangers, we invite you to join us in London on the 17th of November for a talk and open di...

Join us on the 17th of November in the May Day Rooms! @velocitygravity.bsky.social @article19.co.uk @londoniww.bsky.social

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Oooh, another great text from the instances my eyes immediately picked! Deserves printing so it will make my joyful train read tomorrow. Superb article too by Hager - thank you!

How would you formalise the waste and capitalisation on waste resources? E.g. in my case study the tons of data internet users left on the web during Web 2.0 hype, now exploited for GenAI hype purposes (Marx talks about this in the capital btw but doesn't formalise in his M-C-M structures).

Eleven Theses on Technological Hype as Capital Hype is a kind of currency in the tech world, and when so much of the market for innovation depends on speculation, all kinds of monsters appear. Vassilis Galanos theorises this hype as a form of capi...

Oooh very interesting and so Marxian in its formulaic expression - would be glad to cite in future iterations of this!

interregnum.ghost.io/eleven-these...

Very pleased to have contributed to this special issue of the British Educational Research Association blog: 'Reimagining a Just Early Childhood Education and Care Sector'. Julia Manning Morton and I wrote on the Islington Nursery Strike and activism across time.

www.bera.ac.uk/blog/connect...

On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation Published in Science as Culture (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2017)

💹 As the political underpinnings of value creation become ever more pressing, Science as Culture is making available free access the commentary "On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation," by Fabian Muniesa, released almost ten years ago.

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I find this so powerful a statement!

Critical AI scholars! Stop anything you're doing. Baudrillard got us covered since 1999.
#ImpossibleExchange

Participation at the core: AI, ELSI and community engagement Alondra Nelson, a sociologist, STS scholar and expert on AI policy and ethics, recently published a letter in Science proposing that artificial intelligence (AI) should adopt the Ethical, Legal, an…

In today's post I take a proposal by Alondra Nelson for AI ELSI as a springboard to reflect on obstacles and opportunities for community engagement with AI makingsciencepublic.com/2025/09/19/p...

#HistoryEducation

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: The Nexus Centre Presents: A Roundtable with Dr. Josh Lepawsky on "Mapping the Geographical Imaginations of the 'Tech Right'”. After registering, you will r... Dr.Lepawsky (Geography) asks whether the 'Tech Right' are evil geniuses in this one-hour hybrid roundtable discussion. Angela Carter (CRC, Political Science), Keif Godbout-Kinney (PhD Candidate, Soc...

The Nexus Centre Presents: A Roundtable with Dr. Josh Lepawsky on "Mapping the Geographical Imaginations of the 'Tech Right'”

Sep 17, 2025 10:30 AM in Toronto time

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Hi, I think there are no groups at all on BS. There was some early excitement about "starter packs" but that was mostly to follow other people (and haven't found any CoSG pack). Are you on the Mastodon Dobbs.Town? Surprised by how active people are there but I'm not a frequent visitor due to time.

Root/Chop version 3.4: Concrete angle

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Root/Chop version 3.4: City scum

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Root/Chop version 3.4: Andre Breton

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Root/Chop version 3.4: Inspiration

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Root/Chop version 3.4: Innovative investigation

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Root/Chop version 3.4: Shame on you

Portrait series of my old friend and poet Vaios Fotis, posing as André Breton, 2010. See comments for more.

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Dropout Boogie, by Your Old Droog & MF DOOM 1 track album

First UG Induction Day talk today with my Programme Director in BA (Hons) Business Studies hat on - opened by playing Dropout Boogie to set up the scene

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And that's a wrap! @hypestudies.bsky.social conference over and out! 🫡Thank you so much to all the incredible people who attended.
This is what academia can be 🫶

Thought provoking panel on Socio-ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare and Hype. Excellent presentations by Thomas Tsakalakis, Gili Yaron and Violet Petit-Steeghs, Sofie Kronberger, Albina Abzalova, and Roanne van Voorst, Ph.D. who also, masterfully, chaired the session.

Looks like an amazing conference organised by the @hypestudies.bsky.social crew in Barcelona. Great work from @danishanley.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social and many others.@maastrichtu.bsky.social.

@hypestudies.bsky.social hitting the town!

Here we go, keynote time @hypestudies.bsky.social conference.

Packed room here and around 50 people tuning in online!

@gemmamilne.bsky.social rocking it, as per. 🔥🔥🔥

💮Keynote time💮
🔥Excited to close the first day of our conference with a talk by the amazing Gemma Milne on 'Hype and the Age of Badness'🔥
Opening by our Dani Shanley!

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