Some time ago, I had the pleasure (privilege, really) of conversing with Orit Halpern (@ohalpern.bsky.social) and Robert Mitchell about their book 'The Smartness Mandate'. The result of that exchange is now published in the latest issue of 'I Quaderni di Into the Black Box': bit.ly/3TMXwX5

Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency by @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social and @casey-lynch.bsky.social in Urban Geography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to share a new open access article with @casey-lynch.bsky.social, just out in @urbangeography.bsky.social: "Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The 10th STS Italia Conference kicks off tomorrow, 11 June, in Milan. If you’re around, you’re very welcome to join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me for our two sessions on ‘Simondon & AI’ in the afternoon. Abstract details here: stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...

Looks fascinating - via @vgoujon.bsky.social : journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

✨ Very happy to share that my new paper on data annotation practices in affective computing is out ✨ link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🙏 thanks to the fantastic editors of this SI on the politics of machine learning evaluation @dluitse.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social & Tobias Blanke

Our special issue co-edited with @chrish6699.bsky.social and @stefanocanali.bsky.social is finally out! "Metaverse Datafication: Technologies, Definitions, and Futures" www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/2...

Don’t miss @selinnugent.bsky.social’s great piece in the AI & Society special issue that @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and I are guest editing, exploring evolutionary analogies in AI research and how biological diction shapes imaginaries of AI as individuated systems link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"Digital Technologies for Sustainable Futures: Promises and Pitfalls" (Certomà, Iapaolo, Martellozzo, eds.), published last year by Routledge: bit.ly/4cxnwxz

Starting today (Feb 4-6)! "Urban Speculations: Cities, Technologies, Futures" conference brings together international scholars across STS, urban, geographical, media and speculation studies to explore speculations in their many dimensions (financial, technological, cultural) and urban spaces.

The deadline in next Monday, 3 February @susanaaires.bsky.social @ludovico-rella.bsky.social

@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social and I are hoping to organize a session on the theme of 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' at this year's RGS-IBG (26-29 August 2025, Birmingham, UK). Please consider submitting! #geography #rgs

Latest from the special issue I’m guest-editing with @ludovico-rella.bsky.social for AI & Society—a fantastic piece by @benedetta.bsky.social, @sj-bennett.bsky.social & @ftollon.bsky.social: “Everybody knows what a pothole is”: representations of work and intelligence in AI practice and governance

Only one week left to send in your abstract for our panel on 'Gilbert Simondon and Artificial Intelligence' at #STSItalia2025, put together with @susanaaires.bsky.social and @ludovico-rella.bsky.social. Deadline: 3 February!

The deadline is coming up for our CfA for #STSItalia2025: 'Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary' (Panel n.3)! Abstracts due 3rd February 2025. Organized with @susanaaires.bsky.social and @ludovico-rella.bsky.social. More info: bit.ly/49xJP5m

Speaking of Simondon, check out the latest entry in our special issue in AI & Society by @susanaaires.bsky.social, which explores the relevance of Simondon for understanding the functioning and politics of DNNs

CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me at #STSItalia2025 in Milan next June! Abstracts due 3 February 2025. For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m

With input from friends, I’ve made a starter pack of early-career researchers across digital geography, STS, and critical AI studies. It isn’t meant to be definitive or exhaustive (though somewhat arbitrary at this stage), so please feel free to comment your own or others’ names for inclusion!

We are inviting applications for a PhD project on the theme of 'AI geographies of human-animal relations', supervised by @emmajroe.bsky.social & I in Geography at Uni of Southampton. Full details re the project, funding options & how to express interest here: www.thomasdekeyser.com/s/AI-geograp...

As one of the papers I enjoyed reading the most recently, this will be my first (re)post here