From the Archive: Thomas Lemke, 'An Alternative Model of Politics? Prospects and Problems of Jane Bennett’s Vital Materialism' - discusses basic arguments and important achievements of Jane Bennett’s vital materialism. (2018) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
I will be speaking at @rwth.bsky.social on 3 June 2026.
My talk—"Causation as Sign Action: Semiotic Empiricism and the Causal Complexity of Large Language Models"—draws on my new work (soon to be published) on Peircean semiotics and LLMs.
khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/causat...
Book cover for "Platform Extractivism: Data Work and the People Powering Artificial Intelligence" by Julián Posada. Set against a bright yellow background, three vertical photographic panels at the top depict a crowd with digital bounding boxes over faces, a person coding at a computer, and a dense rack of glowing server cables. The title is in large, bold black text, followed by the red subtitle and the author’s name in blue at the bottom.
With the cover now finalized, I am pleased to announce my forthcoming book: 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐦: 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. Available this October from @ucpress.bsky.social s. 🧵 1/4
Sarah C. Dunstan and Ian Stewart eds. Race in the Modern World: An intellectual History - @universitypress.cambridge.org, August 2026
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✨ How can model collapse help us make sense of the emergent risks of synthetic data? And how might it perpetuate notions of real data as 'gold standard'? @bnjacobsen.bsky.social will discuss this in his talk on March 18th - sign up ⬇️
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🚨 Publication alert 🚨 I just published an article in the Journal of Academic Ethics that examines how academic staff investigate and sanction suspected cases of academic misconduct.
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
"Turnitin and Grammarly do not simply detect plagiarism but actively reconfigure what counts as authorship, originality, and intellectual integrity ... reshaping academic labor through anticipatory compliance and rendering originality as machinic compatibility." 🔥 doi.org/10.1177/0263...
You will be part of an exciting, interdisciplinary research team based at @uoy-sociology.bsky.social that explores the effects of synthetic data and AI on society. The studentship is open to all EU and non-EU students. Applications are open until 10 april
In January, my @erc.europa.eu funded project ‘The Ethics of Synthetic Data in the Age of Machine Learning and AI’ started, and I am very excited to say that we are now hiring a fully funded PhD studentship for 2026/27 entry 🚨🚨
www.york.ac.uk/sociology/st...
New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Ethan Stoneman and Joseph C. Packer, 'Writing for Machines, Formatting Originality: Plagiarism Detection and the Automation of Authorship'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@fayboundalberti.bsky.social Fay Bound-Alberti, The Face: A Cultural History - Allen Lane, February 2026
www.penguin.co.uk/books/459227...
New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Tianren Luo, William Xing and Jingjia Xiao, 'Digital Sensing, Infrastructure of Sovereignty, and the Unmaking of the Chinese Surveillance State'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
ICYMI: Louise Amoore and Volha Piotukh, 'Interview with N. Katherine Hayles' - Hayles discusses the themes of her book
'Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious' published in 2017. (Free Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Annual Review: Diana Stypinska, 'Pastorate Digitalized: Social Media and (De)Subjectification' - shows how the digitalization of the pastoral directive culminates in the production of spectral subjects. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Ross Abbinnett, 'On Late Fascism: Derrida, Toscano and the Return of Absolute Hostility' - examines the question of the return of fascism to the political mainstream in European liberal democracies. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Take a look at what our academic and research staff published in January!👇
Berlin journalist @farangiesg.bsky.social writing on Palantir’s models & ICE, interviewed me about my work on the Deep Border & @erc.europa.eu research on machine learning worlds. Her article captures the violent spatial form of algorithmic targeting.
The @leverhulmecal.bsky.social PhD studentships are now live here leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/leverhulme-c... Are you looking for a PhD programme that supports interdisciplinary approaches to algorithmic life? Closing date 26 February
Our @leverhulmecal.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowship posts close for applications on 30 January. A few reflections on the frequently asked questions we have received. So much looking forward to reading your applications and building our team together youtube.com/watch?v=x4AMkxhe4bQ
Architecture Against Architecture: A Manifesto by Reiner de Graaf, out March 2026 from @versobooks.bsky.social! writers & reviewers, let me know if you’d like a copy!
Pleased to see this piece. Personally, I find these uses of synthetic data v concerning and I find the traction and endorsements that this work has to be quite baffling, esp given the well-storied role of algorithmic targeting in undermining democracy
@bnjacobsen.bsky.social and colleagues at @geogdurham.bsky.social have published an article examining how prompting in machine learning is reshaping political power, expertise, and governmental decision-making in Economy and Society.
#Prompting #MachineLearning #PoliticalPower #Decision #Government
This looks amazing - congratulations! Can’t wait to read
Good to see this bad boy out in the world!! New article from me on drone delivery, AI testbeds, and the long history science and technology testing in the colony.
Online first and gloriously open access ✨
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
Gilles Deleuze, On Painting: Courses, March-June 1981, ed. David
Lapoujade, trans. Charles J. Stivale – @uminnpress.bsky.social, August 2025
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791840...
53 years young and still trending
Today is the official UK publication day for Silicon Empires! I'm excited to have it out and hear what people think.
There's an enormous amount happening every day in AI, and it's difficult to gain a stable perspective. I wrote the book to try and get some secure hold on that constant flux. 🧵
