Last June, @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social, and I organised a panel on “Simondon and AI” at the 10th STS Italia Conference. We’ve now published a short report for 4S Backchannels, reflecting on key themes that emerged from our two sessions: 4sonline.org/news_manager...

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... What's up with AI and energy? In this article we explore the growing hunger of AI for energy and the growing intertwining of the energy industry and the AI infrastructure investment through power purchase agreements, especially for nuclear power

So happy to have @profgillian.bsky.social (alongside other great speakers) joining this workshop on ‘Techno-geographies of AI’ in Milan on Friday 27 March. Co-organised with @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and Darío Negueruela del Castillo. @fabianlferrari.bsky.social

💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥 We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Want to know more about #syntheticdata #assetization, #blockchain and #cloudinfrastructures in #finance? In this paper for @financeandspace.bsky.social , I talk about those topics, plus how synthetic data might be reworking financial #subjectivities! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The tiny numnber of far-right and just one of the anti-racist groups.

When 150 far-right tried to march through Newcastle yesterday, 3000 Geordies stopped them. I’m proud of our city and its people. My article is a first-hand account of the day. www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

📣Victory! 📣 Advance UK conference in #Newcastle cancelled. Their leader convicted drug dealer & violent thug, Tommy Robinson, won’t appear - huge thanks to Majority members on the frontline & community groups & campaigners leading the fight. #NotInOurCity #WeAreTheMajority

If you missed our sold out conference on Saturday, this is a brilliant summary from @northeastbylines.co.uk If you’re done sitting on the sidelines join us today 👇🏼

I am very excited and honoured to be the recipient of an ERC Starting Grant, starting January 2026 🔆 @erc.europa.eu. The five-year project will explore the broader social, political, and ethical implications of training algorithmic models on synthetic data. www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Congratulations to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for winning the Green party leadership with a stunning 84.6% of the vote. There is a real appetite for genuine change in this country, and a broad progressive coalition will bring it. We look forward to working with Zack and the Greens in the future!

Our paper finally has a house in Distinktion's Volume 26, Issue 1 (2025): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... We investigate how general purpose technologies AI&blockchain produce hybridization of 1. material infrastructures 2. power, politics and institutional arrangements 3. domain expertise.

OpenAI will not “embed” its tools in college life, it is already changing the nature of what it means to learn, to read or think critically. It does not embed in the world, it makes the world in its image. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

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...

I’m straight, but for years I’ve flown the Pride flag behind me in every TV interview because I support freedom, tolerance and solidarity.🏳️‍🌈 The decision by the County Durham RefUK administration to take it down signals hostility. This letter from Bishop Auckland Pride explains it beautifully.

“Labour has become the oppressor…..Labour’s oh-so-clever strategists are moronically gift wrapping the country for Nigel Farage.” Majority puts people at the heart of politics. The political class are not going to save us, we have to save ourselves. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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...

Really exciting and timely stuff on the materiality of computing infrastructures. Thanks so much @ludovico-rella.bsky.social for sharing your work with us and to our brilliant audience for an engaging discussion! 🙏

This was a fantastic event with a great and engaged audience. I have learned so much from the questions I received and I have now a lot of food for thought on topics of AI's materiality, environmental impact, edge and cloud infrastructures, and much more

Excited to present about this in a couple of hours! Stay tuned!

📢 Come join our next in-person talk by @ludovico-rella.bsky.social, who will use energy consumption to trace the material political economy of EdgeAI and the effects, tensions, and epistemological tradeoffs produced by different hardware configurations ⬇️ sign up here: shorturl.at/uVTdO

In their fascinating exchange, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and colleagues argue that technologies like AI and blockchain cause hybridisation in the realms of materiality, power and expertise www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

Excited to be heading to Paris for this fantastic lineup of scholars on #AI #materiality and #infrastructures! Thank you Loup, Valentin, Hugo, Adrien and Theo for inviting me! @ana_valdi, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Aurélie Bugeau, @Algosoc_ERC

Some thoughts on the #DeepSeek storm: first of all, what they actually innovated from the vanilla Transformer is well summarized here t.co/l6NNx938TI

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!

📢 New publication out! 📢 Co-authored with the brilliant @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @ftollon.bsky.social, as part of @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social SI on ‘Where’s the Intelligence in AI? Mattering, Placing, and De-individuating AI' link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧵

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

how are environmental consequences of AI accounted for? new research on quantification, footprinting, supply chains.. 31st Jan (paris/online) 👉🏼 cis.cnrs.fr/exploring-th... w/ @anavaldi.bsky.social @theolenoir.bsky.social @ludovico-rella.bsky.social @vgoujon.bsky.social @hugoesteca.bsky.social & more

Hi all - we (@ktmac.bsky.social, Amelia Acker and more) are organising a #4S open panel on data loss and we hope you will submit an abstract to it! Get in touch if you have questions about relevancy, framing etc. Abstracts due Jan 31 For more info: tinyurl.com/DALOSSREVERB @4sweb.bsky.social

🚨Really excited to start the year with a new article just published in @theoryculturesociety.org on the intersection of synthetic data and AI: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is part of the work done with the Algorithmic Societies project in Durham. Thanks so much to @amoorelouise.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social, and @alexcampolo.bsky.social for great inputs and conversations’

2/ We will have the opportunity to listen to and talk with some incredible researchers: Loup Cellard, @theolenoir.bsky.social, @anavaldi.bsky.social, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Aurélie Bugeau, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social & @vgoujon.bsky.social

Happy to share that my paper "On the individuation of complex computational models: Gilbert Simondon and the technicity of AI" is now available on AI & Society. Thanks to @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social for putting together this special issue! 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s001...

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

1/ Honored (!) to explore digital dispossession's implications for law, critical/cultural data studies & STS with @fleurjohns.bsky.social in @4sweb.bsky.social's Backchannels: 4sonline.org/news_manager.php?page=38459!Thank you Aaron Gregory and @ludovico-rella.bsky.social for editorial guidance!

From the algorithmic societies team, “A world model: on the political logics of generative AI”, #PoliticalGeography #AI #machinelearning www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I started a 'Digital geographies in the global south' starter pack. It's sparse currently as I am new here. Please let me know who else should be here. go.bsky.app/Rhuprc3