New article with @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social on the different geographies created by digital capitalism, urbanization, and global production networks

Spread the word, friends! I’m excited to share that I'm hiring for TWO roles in marketing at @ucpress.bsky.social. A Marketing Coordinator & a Marketing Manager. Know someone who’d be a great fit? → www.ucpress.edu/about/careers

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Only took 35 years to catch it on the big screen.

“It is the very ability to locate data on the internet that gives information value and creates markets.” Professor @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social examines how geography shapes digital markets in ‪“The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism.” @ucpress.bsky.social

Did you know that University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social has a metric tonne of books #Free2DownloadAndRead in their Open Access page? All available here: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/o...

Black, magenta and an edge data center on the cover of my book about Nairobi, smartphones, platforms, standards, venture capital and digital China. Out in the boreal fall this year 🪩 with U California Press (and OA)

Long time listener, first time book talker. Thanks to Stentor Danielson for the invitation to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to discuss #TheMapintheMachine. Shout out to @ucpress.bsky.social! Check out our conversation here: pca.st/episode/66d9...

Join us March 5 in DC to discuss what happens when nurses use AI to bid against each other for shifts. @veenadubal.bsky.social @daveyseligman.bsky.social @geoplace.bsky.social @fundaustek.bsky.social & @chenjerai.bsky.social will guide us through the new tech wilderness. Register: lnkd.in/eCsiWVye

Three-year Visiting Assistant Professor in Geography at Mount Holyoke College. They are looking for a human or physical geographer, and candidates with expertise in critical geography, urban studies, and/or planning are encouraged to apply! mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

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Deadline in two days: Guarini Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Politics 2025-27 @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social apply.interfolio.com/160584 (quantitative focus) Please apply and share widely!

This is nuts lol

Please share this with the coolest, sharpest graduate students in your life!

I submitted a FOIA request for every submission for the Illinois state flag competition. Today, I got the files. You have no idea what they're keeping from us.

New predoc->postdoc at Dartmouth - please share and apply! Guarini Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Politics 2025-27 apply.interfolio.com/160584

I am co-organizing some sessions for the Global Conference on Economic Geography (June 2025, Worcester, MA). Please share widely! The first session is: "Technoeconomic Geographies: Imaginaries, Technologies, Epistemologies". docs.google.com/document/d/1...

They missed cumbia: everything sucks but we’ll party about it nevertheless

Giving a talk at 9am mt tmrw on the political economy of remote sensing with @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social Ufuoma Ovienmhada and Lisa Parks! Link to join below bigdatasoc.blogspot.com/2024/09/bd-2...

For the new followers: I write THE TECH BUBBLE, a newsletter abt the political econ of tech: open.substack.com/pub/thetechb... I co-host THIS MACHINE KILLS, a Luddite podcast analyzing our tech ecosystem (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...) I write about tech/labor/finance: www.edwardongweso.com

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Send us your abstracts! AAG 2025 CFP: Technology, Power, and the City: Reconnecting the Dots in Turbulent Times Full CfP below: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6wjoz...

Excited our paper "The Ground Rent Machine" is out, which tells the story of racial dispossession thru a little known legal mechanism in Baltimore: ground rent. A dream to collaborate with Jason Jurjevich, engage in crit quant, and decline-as-urbanization. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It’s official.

#TheMapInTheMachine featured in the Campaign for the American Reader. americareads.blogspot.com/2024/06/pg-9... See the companion “Page 99 Test” essay I wrote. page99test.blogspot.com/2024/06/luis... Reach out for review copies, or buy one from @ucpress.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...

The very idea of land is in continuous transformation. How does the creation of ‘virtual land’ in the Metaverse perpetuate or challenge the role of land in (digital) capitalism? Some answers from @jovannarosen.bsky.social and I, in @societyandspace.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Perfect opportunity to order #TheMapInTheMachine! www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...

This commentary contributes to the Geo open collection 'Climate Change, AI and Sustainability' led by Mark Maslin, @jamesgyke.bsky.social, Eric Nost, Ruth Machen, Jenny Goldstein & @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social. Get in touch to contribute to the theme ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2054...

Now that #TheMapInTheMachine exists in its *final form*, I want to thank @kanarinka.bsky.social and Jamie Peck (@outtakimbo on X) for their kind words on the back cover. If you haven’t yet, pre-order this fine paper product from the dream team @ucpress.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...

#TheMapInTheMachine is real and it’s here thanks to the good people at @ucpress.bsky.social Pre-order it! www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...

🤗 abt this Sept. exhibition @ the Boston Pblc Lbry's Leventhal 🗺️ Ctr: PROCESSING PLACE: HOW COMPUTERS + CARTOGRAPHERS REDREW OUR 🌏 "explore[s] changes in the social, political, + environmental landscapes of the 20th c. that were driven by tools for 'computing space'" (co-curated by my former TA!)

Fantastic jobs with an amazing team: (1) Experiential Learning + Programs Educator and (2) Learning Resource Specialist at the Leventhal Map + Edication Center at the Boston Public Library!

I’ve been lurking in car forums for the last few months and saw reports from drivers of General Motors cars that GM was selling their driving data to LexisNexis. It was resulting in their insurance going up. Can that be true, I thought. Reported it out. Yes. True. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/t...

Last call! University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is hiring two (2) Visiting Assistant Professors for next year: 1) Human Geography illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... 2) GIS illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

🚨New study🚨 in Nature Communications finds EV battery supply chain disruption vulnerabilities depend on battery chemistry rdcu.be/dAEbm with Anthony Cheng, Valerie Karplus, EricaFuchs 🧵 1/9 🔌🚗|🔌💡|🔌📈

💥New publication: Critical Data Studies With Latin America: Theorizing Beyond Data Colonialism, in Big Data & Society, by Jonas Valent and I. doi.org/10.1177/2053...

💻New commentary in Geo💻 'AI and Global Climate Change: The political economy of data and energy in geographic perspective' by @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social This piece identifies the productive potential of Geography in studying the intersections between AI & climate change doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

Greenhouse Effect xkcd.com/2889

Come work with us at Dartmouth Geography! ➡️ Guarini Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, Geospatial Information Science. Reach out if you have questions, esp. if you work on Environmental Equity and Health and use geospatial approaches, broadly understood. careers.insidehighered.com/job/3052660/...

I should say that I am also particularly interested in recruiting a student with experience and interest in critical/community-based GIS to help me get a community mapping lab up and running here in Atlanta! If you know someone who might be interested, have them get in touch! #geosky

Psst... Fletcher School is searching for an assistant professor in technology policy with a specialization in cyber and/or artificial intelligence policy. apply.interfolio.com/136236

UNC-CH Sociology is also hiring at the senior full level for a Distinguished Professor position, with preference for expertise in immigration, inequality, or work! Come work with us! 😊 Review of apps begins Nov 15th! See ad linked below for details. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/268...

#geosky we are hiring a new director at Arizona Geography! Tucson is pretty great and so is our community check it out! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Job Alert! Assistant Professor in Environmental Justice @ SUNY-ESF. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions! esf.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=168927