We are pleased to invite proposals to our 'lost futures in design professions' panel at the EASST2026 (@easst.bsky.social) 'More than now: Exploring resilient futures' conference in Krakow (8-11 September). The CfP is open until 28 February 2026. easst.net/conference/e...

we know this is a stretch but any of you jce fluent people out there active on tiktok? or know any good acad-related accounts? think of it as an exercise in intergenerational care

“Membership and accommodation, which he dubs ‘society-as-a-service’, starts at $1,500 a month.” www.ft.com/content/b127...

Tiens, les épreuves de notre numéro spécial "Spéculation/Réaction" à corriger pour très bientôt pour la revue Multitudes... 👀

‘Search can sometimes take you to places you don’t want to go. But at least a “classical” search engine like Google in the 2000s and 2010s took you outside itself, and perhaps prompted you to evaluate what you found there.’ Donald MacKenzie on Google’s future: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

In our new issue, eight writers examine the worldwide decline in deep literacy. Read Nicolás Medina Mora, Annette Hug, Kim Hyesoon, Zhang Yueran, Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin, Yassin Adnan, Valeria Villalobos Guízar, and Alain Mabanckou on global brainrot.

Autonomia ethnographica

"The North American Boys had broken with the long tradition of bourgeois Mexicans getting their doctorates in Europe and had gone to graduate school at Harvard, Yale, and MIT. Going north to study neoclassical economics was for them a form of rebellion against older PRI apparatchiks..."

Offset Marketplace is a new project in collaboration with @tega.bsky.social. We calculate the carbon savings of industrial sabotage, package these savings into carbon credits, and sell them as certificates. Profits are then donated back to the activists responsible for the actions. offset.labr.io

another design criticism is possible

I have a new piece on the politics of discounting in the latest @nybooks.com, hopefully of interest to some. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Wrote more about Benjamin Bratton's paranoid imagination of a media studies cabal holding back AI progress in Europe. mail.cyberneticforests.com/is-the-media...

Our latest issue just out and, we think we can say this, it is a banger. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/c... feat. @philiproscoe.bsky.social @ulissess.bsky.social @cibled.bsky.social @maijutanninen.bsky.social @busedoyu.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social @theobourgeron.bsky.social &&

‘The “three energy transitions” narrative is a story that progresses logically to a happy ending. And that raises a question. What if it is a fairy tale dressed up in a business suit or, worse, a mirage, a dangerously seductive illusion?’ — @adamtooze.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I have a review of John Ganz's When The Clock Broke in the new LRB www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Our article on the design-ification of future making (out last March) has finally found a home in the latest issue of @jcultecon.bsky.social (i.e., vol. 18, no. 5)! :) doi.org/10.1080/1753...

Positionings of Embedded Design gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/... "This publication gives a glimpse into the work done by 2025 and 2026 cohorts of the Embedded Design MFA program at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg."

Mardi prochain @unil.bsky.social Plus d'info: www.unil.ch/events/17550...

Design criticism remains stuck in nostalgia for the glory days of graphic design, so it never made the leap to coherent criticism of interactive digital products and services where the thing you need to critique is the underlying business model because everything follows from that.

Did AI write this?

Positionings of Embedded Design gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/... "This publication gives a glimpse into the work done by 2025 and 2026 cohorts of the Embedded Design MFA program at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg."

'Who pays for the $3tn AI building boom?' on.ft.com/4fHmxxe

Michel Callon (1945-2025) estudiosdelaeconomia.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/m...

Or better yet, read this: Heuts, Frank, and Annemarie Mol. 2013. “What Is a Good Tomato? A Case of Valuing in Practice”. Valuation Studies 1 (2):125-46. doi.org/10.3384/vs.2...

Some very saddening news.

OnlineFirst- "Beyond AI as an environmental pharmakon: Principles for reopening the problem-space of machine learning's carbon footprint" by Loup Cellard, @profchristine.bsky.social, and Fiona Haines: @admscentre.org.au journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

“AI-native universities” 🤡

“Given that worlds are always more implied than they are described, we can say further that fandom disputes—canon wars—are ontological arguments about the world in question, they are attempts to express values and ideals through the ordering of a reality.”

Moya es considerado uno de los grandes maestros de la imagen en México, documentó las guerrillas de Latinoamérica, la invasión estadounidense de República Dominicana, la revolución cubana y los movimientos sociales del 68. dozz.es/g2cn54

And now with open access on our blog www.journalofculturaleconomy.org/a-sociology-...

New from ephemera: 'Organizing for apocalypse' ephemerajournal.org/issue/organi...

Are you researching the multiple modes of agency, participation, and design engaged in low carbon transitions? We are accepting contributions for the special issue "Co-creating Low-Carbon Transitions". Abstracts are due on October 1, 2025. More info: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger. www.wired.com/story/genera...

Lucy Benjamin, Planetary Politics: Arendt, Anarchy and the Climate Crisis - @edinburghup.bsky.social, May 2025 (print and open access) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-planeta...

“Last month, Brazil announced it is rolling out a data ownership pilot that will allow its citizens to manage, own, and profit from their digital footprint — the first such nationwide initiative in the world.”

Beyond excited to co-organize Collapse Finance with @ariskomporozos.bsky.social — it's shaping up to be a breakthrough event!

David Graeber's 'bullshit jobs' meets David Stark's 'performance complex'

"Estrangement of Meaning in a Wealth of Information" @sociologica.bsky.social doi.org/10.6092/issn...

You can now read my essay on "late futurism", that is, the future as a mode of the present, in full on my website: silviolorusso.com/publication/... #design #futures

Mariana Mazzucato and Justin O'Connor join me to try and think through relations of culture, economy and cultural policy in @jcultecon.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Everybody’s talking about the race to superintelligence but nobody’s talking about the race to superstupidity.

— Call for papers I am pleased to invite you to submit papers for the panel "Re/symmetrizing Care: Thinking Technical and Natural Maintenance in the Anthropocene," which I'm co-convening with Alain Müller and David Pontille at the upcoming STS-CH Conference on Sept 10 – 12, 2025 in Zurich.

With much thanks to the editors @delaeconomia.bsky.social @philiproscoe.bsky.social and the anonymous reviewers, this piece co-written w/ Karl Palmås is freshly published. doi.org/10.1080/1753...

New #Postdoctoral Job! I'm recruiting for multi-country project on research #metadata & evaluation - UK, Germany, France, and Canada. Funded by SSHRC under Open Research Area 8 initiative. More info: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-... #research #metascience #researchevaluation #universities #metrics