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Emilio Santiago Muíño @esantiago.bsky.social · 17h

Peak oil is coming, sí. Pero justo al revés de lo que profetizaba el pikoilismo: "Por primera vez en su historia, la industria petrolera tiene un competidor económicamente superior". Como es habitual en @corrientecalida.com:
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Sedientos de correctivos - Corriente Cálida

Justin Mikulka La era de la electrificación del transporte ha llegado. La pregunta más interesante que queda pendiente es cuándo se dará cuenta de todo esto la clase inversora y concluirá que quiere d...

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Margen de Maniobra @margendemaniobra.net · 6d

📻 CHINA A ESCALA INDUSTRIAL

¿Qué papel está teniendo el coche eléctrico para el desarrollo industrial de China, hasta dónde está apoyando el Estado a este sector y cómo se está reaccionando desde Europa a esta realidad? @paologerbaudo.bsky.social

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Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · 7d

Ha sido un placer debatir con @clara-garcia.bsky.social de la Complutense y @jlrodriguezgut.bsky.social del Instituto Meridiano sobre la transicion verde en China - y lo que podemos aprender de sus exitos de politica industrial. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVri...

Margen de Maniobra 2x02 - China a escala industrial

YouTube video by Círculo de Bellas Artes

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José Luis Rodríguez @jlrodriguezgut.bsky.social · 7d

Estos dos textos de @paologerbaudo.bsky.social para @phenomenalworld.bsky.social sobre la economía política del vehículo eléctrico chino.

«El Estado desarrollista del vehículo eléctrico»: www.phenomenalworld.org/es/analisis/...

«BYD Global»: www.phenomenalworld.org/es/analisis/...

El estado desarrollista del vehículo eléctrico | Paolo Gerbaudo

BYD ejemplifica las transformaciones de la política industrial china

www.phenomenalworld.org

Margen de Maniobra @margendemaniobra.net · 7d

📻 NUEVO EPISODIO
China a escala industrial

Hablamos con Clara García y @paologerbaudo.bsky.social sobre cómo la política industrial china está transformando la economía planetaria y acelerando la transición energética, cuáles son sus precedentes y cómo Occidente puede adaptarse a este escenario.

Margen de Maniobra 2x02 - China a escala industrial

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Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social · 23d

It is interesting that @thisisyourparty.bsky.social has been relatively closely following the "1-9-90" rule that @paologerbaudo.bsky.social has discussed as a characteristic of "digital parties":
- 800,000 expressed support
- 50,000 joined as members
- 8-10,000 participating in online voting

UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · Nov 21

✍️ Why Digital Sovereignty Matters

In the wake of recent cloud blackouts, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and @paologerbaudo.bsky.social highlight the importance of #DigitalSovereignty and dangers of technological subordination.

🔗 Read their @tribunemagazine article here: buff.ly/euZgJ8z

Alameda Institute @alameda.institute · Nov 19

We are happy to welcome our new Senior Researcher, Paolo Garbaudo / @paologerbaudo.bsky.social!

Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · Nov 16

I am interested in the politics of technology, beyond digital.

Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · Nov 16

8/ All in all, coming back from this visit and having seen many other models and showrooms one can only be in awe of the level of technological sophistication of this industry. It will be very hard for Western companies to compete.

Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · Nov 16

7/ The quality of cars is very high. #XPeng is the EV firm with the highest customer satisfaction in China, and it has started to export to the Middle East. In the picture the new P7 model.

Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · Nov 16

6/ Strong vertical integration was clearly seen in the plant, with different stages in the car production happening at short distance. This is to a great extent enabled by the fact that EVs are far more simple mechanically compared with internal combustion engine cars.

Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · Nov 16

5/ It is now also producing its own custom-built AI microchip called "Turing", in a manifestation of its broader ambition in "future mobility" and self-driving cars.

Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · Nov 16

4/ Differently from #BYD, which also produces it own batteries, #XPeng sources them from other companies and in particular CALB. But otherwise the firm is strongly vertically integrated as it produces internally the car body, power train, electronics and software.

Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · Nov 16

3/ Over the course of the visit we saw different production departments: the stamping, welding, final assembly and packing. The first two sections are almost completely automated, while the latter are still quite labor-intensive.

Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · Nov 16

2/ However automotive is still very much the core business of the company and where it is reaping impressive results. Last month the company celebrated a 73% growth in deliveries and its stock price has surged significantly this year.

Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · Nov 16

1/ One of many EV brands in China (by some counts as many as 90) #Xpeng has become famous recently because of the IRON humanoid Robot. The firm CEO Xiaopeng He was described as "Chinese Elon Musk" with ambitions in many other industries (such as low altitude flying vehicles).

Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · Nov 16

Yesterday I visited the #Xpeng production plant in Guangzhou. It was an opportunity to see the production process in person at one of the emerging Chinese EV firms. The impression was one of high sophistication and a reminder that the Chinese EV world is far bigger than #BYD. 🧵

UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · Nov 12

✍️ Why Digital Sovereignty Matters

In the wake of recent cloud blackouts, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and @paologerbaudo.bsky.social highlight the importance of #DigitalSovereignty and dangers of technological subordination.

🔗 Read their @tribunemagazine article here: buff.ly/93Wo42J

Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · Nov 10

🎆 NEW OA ARTICLE ALERT 🎆

'Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots' in @risjnl.bsky.social

How do populist publics visually represent themselves & how have shifts in visual technologies altered this process?

Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core

Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots

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Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · Nov 4

The last 2 weeks saw major cloud outages from #AmazonWebServices and #MicrosoftAzure affecting thousands of websites. As @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and I argue in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social this event is a wakeup call about the security risks of tech dependency. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...

Why Digital Sovereignty Matters

Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud blackouts paralysed public services across the globe this autumn — a warning of what happens when essential infrastructure is left in the hands of private US monopolies.

tribunemag.co.uk

Cecilia Rikap @ceciliarikap.bsky.social · Nov 3

What can we learn from @awscloud.bsky.social and @microsoft.com recent cloud blackouts?

The extent of dependency is so deep & widespread that we must develop #digital #sovereignty

This is what @paologerbaudo.bsky.social & I explain for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...

Why Digital Sovereignty Matters

Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud blackouts paralysed public services across the globe this autumn — a warning of what happens when essential infrastructure is left in the hands of private US monopolies.

tribunemag.co.uk

Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · Oct 2

Thanks Osmond, I think that the initial tweet captures well the contradiction of conflict around the state that we are now witnessing

Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · Sep 3

eheh

Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · Sep 3

I have missed this

Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · Sep 3

The article is part of a special issue on 'The Political Economy of Green-Digital Transition', guest edited by Edelmilson Paraná on Globalizations. We also want to thank the anonymous reviewers for the useful comments on our article.

Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · Sep 3

This shortcoming is becoming even more apparent as the world faces the return of (new) great power politics, and the EU finds itself under heavy pressure from the Trump's administration to renounce to any pretence of political autonomy and technological sovereignty.

Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · Sep 3

Further we underline (2) the emphasis on technology adoption, rather than the expansion of productive capacities (basically the EU continues to adopt much of the tech it adopts). This leads to the paradox that NGEU may further entrench EU tech dependency on the US and China.

Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · Sep 3

We highlight: (1) a tension between two competing narratives, short-term economic recovery ('recovery narrative'), and long-term technological transformation ('modernisation narrative'), with the NGEU ending up focusing more on the former.

Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social · Sep 3

We critically examine the strategic contradictions of NGEU, both in its overarching conception narratives and the details of its concrete policy content, to assess the degree to which the plan has fulfilled its promise of future-proofing the political economy of the EU.

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