Our third plenary, 'Resurgent Reaction and the Rise of New Authoritarianisms' with Wendy Brown, Cecilia Rikap, Jeffery Webber and Rafeef Ziadah, is now being live streamed! Join, comrades!

Saturday night plenary with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social and Wendy Brown on new authoritarianisms - full house. @histmat.bsky.social

At my new working group on International Relations and Political Economy @Universität Bielefeld, I have a full postdoc position for 3 years (plus x) to offer. Do apply and ask if you have any questions: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/459... in German here: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/459...

The last 2 weeks saw major cloud outages from #AmazonWebServices and #MicrosoftAzure affecting thousands of websites. As @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and I argue in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social this event is a wakeup call about the security risks of tech dependency. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...

What can we learn from @awscloud.bsky.social and @microsoft.com recent cloud blackouts? The extent of dependency is so deep & widespread that we must develop #digital #sovereignty This is what @paologerbaudo.bsky.social & I explain for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...

🎤 Historical Materialism 2025 Conference IIPP Head of Research Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social will be contributing to the 22nd annual Historical Materialism, running from 6-9 November 2025 at @soasuni.bsky.social , London. 🔗 Learn more here: buff.ly/W8Kl1RJ @histmat.bsky.social

Sequel of "The Billion Dollar Code"? 🍿

🎤 Technology, power and exploitation Today, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social will be speaking with @lmittendrein.bsky.social about intellectual monopolies and the struggle for digital sovereignty at the latest instalment of @attac.at's discussion series. 🔗 Learn more [DE]: buff.ly/vhKuu4M

"By preaching that technology shaped by capital is the ultimate horizon, Aghion implicitly accepts that nature, labour and society are second-order variables, subordinated to a fetishized technical devenir". @nobelprize.bsky.social @newleftreview.bsky.social newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

🎤 How big tech companies profit from sustainability. In a recent interview with @intercept.com.br, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social outlines how #BigTech companies are controlling and guiding the ecological transition. 🔗 Read more here [PT]: buff.ly/gKdjJnz

🎤 How big tech companies profit from sustainability. In a recent interview with @intercept.com.br, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social outlines how #BigTech companies are controlling and guiding the ecological transition. 🔗 Read more here [PT]: buff.ly/Bj4cNnM

A must read paper on how Big Tech uses start-ups from Spain and Brazil to advance their political interests 👇👇👇

Want to know how Big Tech uses the need for an ecological transition for their own benefits? & How they govern us all? The @intercept.com.br interviewed me about these issues based on my latest paper w @silviaweko.bsky.social Read: www.intercept.com.br/2025/10/03/e...

“There’s no doubt that without decent bus services you get loneliness & social exclusion, so the impact is quite severe.” We estimate that since the pandemic, buses in Shropshire alone have been cut by 60%. Findings from our new project — Who Owns Britain? — on BBC Radio 4 🔈👇

✍️ These datacentres are the equivalent of “American military bases on British soil” IIPP Prof. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social warns of the dangers of “hyperscale” datacentres built across Britain and owned by US tech giants in Aditya Chakrabortty's recent article. 🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/t0Nfn8v

Some ideas for those speaking Italian here: fondazionefeltrinelli.it/pubblico/big...

Great @theguardian.com piece by Aditya Chakrabortty on UK deepening its dependency on the US and its #TechGiants I was featured saying “American military bases on British soil”. Strong, I know, but I find it a pertinent analogy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

⚡️How the US tech industry is shaping the transition to green energy. IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social 's research into #BigTech’s role in the energy transition was featured in @markpeplow.bsky.social 's article for @nature.com. ✍️ Read the article here: buff.ly/Hq4GRnK

👏👏 @lobbycontrol.bsky.social for today's action calling for Break Up of Big Tech, starting with Google at the EU's Headquarters.

Is it possible to design a world where production is organised according to social, #community #needs and respecting #planetary #boundaries? What are the techno-political basics needed for #democratically building such an alternative? Join us in Geneva at a once in a lifetime workshop 👇👇

We know that #BigTech consumes tons of energy & water. What was missed is that they are also attempting to control ecological transition paths turning govs & societies even more dependent on them This is the main finding of my new paper w @silviaweko.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

You can now watch the recording of HM Paris's plenary session "At the heart of the storm, thinking of capitalism and infrastructures" where I had the pleasure of speaking about digital technologies, corporate and political power. Sandro Mezzadra and I spoke in English: youtu.be/RQnoKUZJATc?...

As @ceciliarikap.bsky.social explains, Big Tech controls much of the AI market behind the scenes, through venture capital investments, deals for access to cloud computing & influencing the overall direction of AI research toward large-scale language models. www.common-wealth.org/publications...

💔It’s time to break up Big Tech’s “broligarchy” - we need European digital sovereignty. Launched at the European Parliament, read the latest policy brief “A progressive roadmap for expanding European digital sovereignty”. 📕https://bit.ly/ProgressiveRoadmapDigitalPB

Today, I will be presenting my new policy brief on #Digital #Sovereignty to S&D MEPs at the #European #Parliament in Brussels Here is a preview of one of my slides to set the scene and the invite to the event feps-europe.eu/event/a-prog...

☁️ South America’s sovereignty is being lost in Big Tech’s cloud IIPP Prof. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social calls for South American governments to stand up to #BigTech firms extracting data, knowledge and natural resources from the region. ✍️ Read her new @opendemocracy.net article here: buff.ly/jsB2Bgm

For years, countries accepted their dependence on US tech companies. That needs to change. This week @ceciliarikap.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss why it’s so important for governments to champion digital sovereignty that puts people first. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/290_...

We need our countries to get serious about abandoning US tech and putting serious resources behind developing more public-oriented alternatives their citizens can use instead. Always great to get @ceciliarikap.bsky.social’s insights on these topics. Don’t miss our chat!

Wenn wir die großen Techkonzerne nicht demokratisieren, werden sie uns unterwerfen, meint die Ökonomin @ceciliarikap.bsky.social im Interview mit @maxinefowe.bsky.social

✍️"Innovation is produced jointly, but only the intellectual monopolies benefit from it." IIPP Prof @ceciliarikap.bsky.social spoke with @surplusmagazin.bsky.social about the dangers of cloud & #AI services remaining under the control of a select few #BigTech companies. 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/pyUX75h

For German speakers, I strongly recommend the new number of @surplusmagazin.bsky.social It includes an interview where I answer a bit of everything, incl why I don't speak of techno-feudalism More importantly, a lot of extremely interesting articles from a #critical #economics perspective

☁️ South America’s sovereignty is being lost in Big Tech’s cloud IIPP Prof. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social calls for South American governments to stand up to #BigTech firms extracting data, knowledge and natural resources from the region. ✍️ Read her new @opendemocracy.net article here: buff.ly/IS0QC51

☁️ South America’s sovereignty is being lost in Big Tech’s cloud IIPP Prof. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social calls for South American governments to stand up to #BigTech firms extracting data, knowledge and natural resources from the region. ✍️ Read her new @opendemocracy.net article here: buff.ly/9UFbU8L

It's always a pleasure to talk to @parismarx.com and this was no exception. This time, why and what it means to expand #digital #sovereignty for people and the planet, what different governments are doing and why it is not enough podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

More on #BigTech 's complicit role in #Gaza 's #genocide On top of known stories like Amazon and Google's #ProjectNimbus, #Microsoft 's cloud was used for the largest #surveillance experiment: Israel recorded every Palestinian phone call www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

🌎 Promoting Digital Sovereignty in Latin America In a session with public servants from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Uruguay, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social‬ argued for regional cooperation between governments to prevent digital capitalism. 🔗 Read more here: buff.ly/ZW5g6s5

☁️ South America’s sovereignty is being lost in Big Tech’s cloud IIPP Prof. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social calls for South American governments to stand up to #BigTech firms extracting data, knowledge and natural resources from the region. ✍️ Read her new @opendemocracy.net article here: buff.ly/9UFbU8L

🎤 Becoming less dependent on Big Tech. IIPP Head of Research @ceciliarikap.bsky.social spoke with @gerardoosterwijk.bsky.social about addressing EU digital infrastructure and the 'Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty' report on the @feps-europe.eu podcast. 🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/A8wOFt5

🌎La estrategia de las 'big tech' para la región consiste en extraer datos, conocimiento y recursos naturales 🌎Si vas a leer algo hoy, que sea este análisis de @ceciliarikap.bsky.social sobre IA, nubes y soberanía en Brasil, Chile y Uruguay @opendemocracy.net www.opendemocracy.net/es/brasil-ch...

I spoke at the closing panel of #CPDP Latam along w policymakers & #MercadoLibre I explained why regional platforms do not contribute to #digital #sovereignty as they are complicit in Big Tech's predatory ecosystem & what can be done for advancing it I speak from 1h17m youtube.com/live/Wi7vKmS...

⏮️ Catch up on our recent #IIPPInConversation event. IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social chaired a roundtable discussion on #DigitalSovereignty in Latin America, highlighting leading examples in Chile and Uruguay. 📺 Watch the event recording here: buff.ly/NDZM4GS

On my way to Canada, reading @parismarx.com , couldn't ask for a better intro to the country www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

I was interviewed by Die Zeit in Germany! It seems that the journalist finds our proposal a bit unfeasible (German speakers please confirm). Yet, decoupling states from Big Tech & building a public-led digital value chain is the only way to develop tech that empowers people & respects the planet

Join us discussing what Chile and Uruguay are doing for expanding digital sovereignty, their challenges and why international cooperation among non-aligned countries is needed! Online, tomorrow Tuesday at 1.30pm Uruguay/Brazil/Arg, 12.30 Chile and 5.30 UK. Register here 👇

🪙 Heads I Win, Tails I Win IIPP Head of Research @ceciliarikap.bsky.social examines how competition in the global #AI market favours the US companies who dominate the cloud services that AI models run on. ✍️ Read her latest article for @cmmonwealth.bsky.social here: buff.ly/edbyCZ0

✍️ From Digital Feudalism to Digital Sovereignty Catch up on our recent IIPP #RethinkingTheState Forum panel chaired by Prof @rainerkattel.bsky.social & featuring @mazzucatom.bsky.social, @francescabria.bsky.social, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & Mike Braken 🔗 Watch the recording here: buff.ly/hVeBqD1

A talk with policymakers from #Chile and #Uruguay about how they are building #digital sovereignty, challenges and limitations Join us online!! Register below

🪙 Heads I Win, Tails I Win IIPP Head of Research @ceciliarikap.bsky.social examines how competition in the global #AI market favours the US companies who dominate the cloud services that AI models run on. ✍️ Read her latest article for @cmmonwealth.bsky.social here: buff.ly/edbyCZ0

☁️ Competition in the Provision of Cloud Computing Services IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social‬ spoke at a recent ‪@oecd-ocde.bsky.social‬ roundtable on developments in cloud computing services, and how pressing issues can be addressed effectively. 🔗 Read the session notes: buff.ly/vMzru3v

Amazon, Microsoft & Google end up controlling the entire AI value chain, from infrastructure to application. Innovation happens on their terms; they get to make profit while continually cementing their dominance. As said by @ceciliarikap.bsky.social — “these giants hold the winning hand”.