1) Helene Ratner and I are thrilled to see our article out in AI & SOCIETY. It is the product of several years of explorations of, and conversations on, what the ethico-political implications are of turning historic data into resources for welfare #AI (OA shorturl.at/nwIT0)

This new article by Louise Amoore Alex Campolo et al looks fabulous! "A world model: On the political logics of generative AI," on "how generative AI gives rise to a model of the world & political logics and rationalities" (abbrev.) bit.ly/3KkxRAo

Yes, I always had the feeling that the crux of Zuboff’s book was not that it presented anthing particularly new but that it spun a compelling narrative that fit with the sensationalism of popular media

Starting off our afternoon session with our second panel on Error, Uncertainty and Categorisation with Alex Campolo Benjamin Jacobsen Cindy Lin chaired by our own SJ

📲 Our BA Digital Media, Culture and Communication programme will help you to see the wider context in which media develop and the context you use those media. Watch our academics talk about this degree and what it’s like to study here in Department of Sociology 👇 youtu.be/gWgLk1OhccE

They've gone full mask-off: 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 trust OpenAI or its products (ChatGPT etc). There is only one reason for appointing an NSA/CSS Director to your board. This is a willful, calculated betrayal of the rights of every person on Earth. You have been warned.

Sharing pages with my long-time heroes Ahmed, Butler, Berlant, Hall, Puar &&… Thank you Andrew Dwyer for such a beautifully written and generous essay. And Rob Kitchin for being persuasive. The book is wonderful & I can’t wait to teach from it.

A detailed comparison of Michel Foucault's Two Texts on Georges Canguilhem progressivegeographies.com/resources/fouc…

🚨Thrilled to share my new article “Platform power in AI: The evolution of cloud infrastructures in the political economy of artificial intelligence” ✨OA Internet Policy Review as part of the🔥SI “Locating and Theorizing Platform Power” Read: policyreview.info/articles/analy…

✨So happy to see our (Matthew Archer 🚨, Henriette Steiner + me) new article out OA icsjournal ! It's the result of a longer fascination with the general idea that silos are "bad" and how tech companies produce and harness this w grave political and ethical implications. Link👇

A fascinating paper by Inga Luchs Marcel Broersma on online machine learning courses from Google and IBM and their impact on the field of practice. The study sheds light on technical knowledge, assumptions, and economic interests of these companies. buff.ly/3lwAw0y

New OA paper: 'Digital twins and deep maps' with VirtualArchitectures in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers: doi.org/10.1111/tran.1…

✨Very excited and thankful to see my article ‘Platform power in AI: The evolution of cloud infrastructures in the political economy of artificial intelligence’ featured as article of the week by The Syllabus ✨

NEW in PG - A world model: On the political logics of generative AI, by Louise Amoore, Alexander Campolo, Benjamin Jacobsen and Ludovico Rella sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Never before translated piece from Foucault on noise and information theory? 😱🤩🔥 Read Foucault's "Message or Noise?" (1966), translated with introductory essay by the inimitable Christopher O'Neill

ICYMI - I have a translation of a “new” Michel Foucault essay, “Message or Noise?” (1966), as well as a commentary on “Foucault and Information Theory”, now available open access in Parrhesia parrhesiajournal.org

If you're a researcher who is not trained in computer science, how might you study machine learning? This paper by Louise Amoore Alex Campolo Benjamin Jacobsen Ludovico Rella proposes an alternative way of reading ML texts, paying attention to HOW we read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Very excited to co-organize the DATA LIFE conference. Please take a look at the CfP and get in touch if you want to join! 🌞

🎉 My commentary on the political economy of platforms is out in the newly minted Platforms & Society (Platforms & Society)! doi.org/10.1177/297686… The upshot:

Okay, so Elsevier, Routledge, and now Wiley are all out now. Sounds like academics really need to step our own efforts to create and sustain independent, open access, non-profit publishing. #AcademicTwitter thebookseller.com/news/wiley-set…