Colleagues, do not normalize apartheid and genocide in Palestine. Sign this:
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Green simulation, infrastructure, and the planned energy futures of big tech This paper examines how, under the banner of a green digital transition, big tech firms are moving into the provision of energy infrastructure. We focus specifically on a technical means which allo...

My colleague Pat Brodie and I have a new paper interpreting big tech's move into "green" infrastructure as a form of capitalist planning

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New paper alert! “Remote Robotics, or the Digital Re-Embodiment of Labour.” Co-written with @stnhfj.bsky.social and Alessandro Delfanti. Published in Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation 🔗👇
www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

New paper

New paper on VR/AR + Marx + logistical media theory

This worth doing. Good idea!

I had an excellent time and was quite flattered to be invited as an expert speaker to the Second Conference on Marxism and Digital Capitalism at Nanjing University Department of Philosophy

Hello Bluesky!
The new Horizon Europe FORSEE project is launching here! We’re excited to expand our community here and explore how success in #AI can be defined and used to strengthen Europe’s position in the AI landscape. Follow us and find out more at: forseeproject.eu!

Even leftist presses want to sell out to AI capital. Don't support this shit

At ICS we have Masters scholarships for EU students available in several programs: www.ucd.ie/ics/study/eu...

OII | Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop This workshop aims to facilitate dialogues between UK scholars and approaches from the Global South in the field of Internet and Data Studies.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, we will host a fantastic event at the Oxford Internet Institute to highlight theories, approaches, and methods from Global South countries related to the Internet, data, and AI.

www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

FINALLY have given birth to this entity doi.org/10.1177/2053...

'Anti-american' purging

Marx in the Anthropocene @ IUAV

Marx and AI In this seminar, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Atle Mikkola Kjosen and James Steinhoff are joined by Tongyu Wu to discuss the main arguments of Inhuman Power

www.kcl.ac.uk/events/marx-...

Turns out sarcasm can be a useful campaigning tool. #SaveTheAI

The Automatic Fetish The Automatic Fetish traces Marx’s analysis of capital, step by step, through the material compiled posthumously as the third volume of Capital. Identifying the critique of value as the central throug...

Beverly Best's Automatic Fetish is an incredible guide to Capital Vol 3. I just wish it ever discussed recent empirical research on the topics it covers (FROP tendency, etc.)

A late Christmas present in the post today: the Handbook for the Future of Work which I coedited with @jmacleavy.bsky.social as part of the Routledge International Handbooks Series.

For full contents and info on ebook access, inspection copies & library orders see: www.routledge.com/The-Handbook...

Chinese Open-Source AI DeepSeek R1 Matches OpenAI's o1 at 98% Lower Cost - Decrypt DeepSeek's new R1 model matches or beats OpenAI's performance while being free and open-source—and it got there in a fascinating way.

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Fun in the sun