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Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one

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Lecturer in Digital Work, UoStirling. Researching AI/internet/digital media & expectations/expertise. Hype+Metaphors. Friends: BRAID UK, UoE STIS, AI Ethics & Society, Data Civics, The New Real. AE: Technology Analysis and Strategic Management. It/ve/vem👾

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Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social · Jul 7

It's been an immense pleasure writing this piece during my close immersion into the worlds of Marx and Bataille. I am grateful to Interregnum's editorial team and Ola Michalec for comments on earlier drafts of this text.

If you are interested in hype as an economic force, this might be for you.

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Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social · 19d

Oooh, another great text from the instances my eyes immediately picked! Deserves printing so it will make my joyful train read tomorrow. Superb article too by Hager - thank you!

Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social · 19d

How would you formalise the waste and capitalisation on waste resources? E.g. in my case study the tons of data internet users left on the web during Web 2.0 hype, now exploited for GenAI hype purposes (Marx talks about this in the capital btw but doesn't formalise in his M-C-M structures).

Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social · 19d

Oooh very interesting and so Marxian in its formulaic expression - would be glad to cite in future iterations of this!

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Eleven Theses on Technological Hype as Capital

Hype is a kind of currency in the tech world, and when so much of the market for innovation depends on speculation, all kinds of monsters appear. Vassilis Galanos theorises this hype as a form of capi...

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Rosa Schling @rosaschling.bsky.social · Sep 8

Very pleased to have contributed to this special issue of the British Educational Research Association blog: 'Reimagining a Just Early Childhood Education and Care Sector'. Julia Manning Morton and I wrote on the Islington Nursery Strike and activism across time.

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Connections across time: Activism as a nurturing network

We write as activists, advocates and historians about the ongoing impact of strike action taken by nursery workers 40 years ago and the way activism can nourish the profession. Despite the...

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 27d

💹 As the political underpinnings of value creation become ever more pressing, Science as Culture is making available free access the commentary "On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation," by Fabian Muniesa, released almost ten years ago.

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On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation

Published in Science as Culture (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2017)

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Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social · 23d

I find this so powerful a statement!

Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social · 23d

Critical AI scholars! Stop anything you're doing. Baudrillard got us covered since 1999.
#ImpossibleExchange

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 23d

In today's post I take a proposal by Alondra Nelson for AI ELSI as a springboard to reflect on obstacles and opportunities for community engagement with AI makingsciencepublic.com/2025/09/19/p...

Participation at the core: AI, ELSI and community engagement

Alondra Nelson, a sociologist, STS scholar and expert on AI policy and ethics, recently published a letter in Science proposing that artificial intelligence (AI) should adopt the Ethical, Legal, an…

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 24d

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 25d

Day 1 of the visit (Weds 17th) concludes with a guest lecture, at 5.30pm, at the Linklater Rooms, University of Aberdeen, by Prof. Matthew J. Smith (UCL), Director of the Centre for the Legacies of British Slavery.

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Slavery, Big Data, and the Cultures of Caribbean Ancestral Histories

Royal Historical Society public lecture at the University of Aberdeen

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 25d

The Nexus Centre Presents: A Roundtable with Dr. Josh Lepawsky on "Mapping the Geographical Imaginations of the 'Tech Right'”

Sep 17, 2025 10:30 AM in Toronto time

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: The Nexus Centre Presents: A Roundtable with Dr. Josh Lepawsky on "Mapping the Geographical Imaginations of the 'Tech Right'”. After registering, you will r...

Dr.Lepawsky (Geography) asks whether the 'Tech Right' are evil geniuses in this one-hour hybrid roundtable discussion. Angela Carter (CRC, Political Science), Keif Godbout-Kinney (PhD Candidate, Soc...

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Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social · 25d

Hi, I think there are no groups at all on BS. There was some early excitement about "starter packs" but that was mostly to follow other people (and haven't found any CoSG pack). Are you on the Mastodon Dobbs.Town? Surprised by how active people are there but I'm not a frequent visitor due to time.

Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social · 26d

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Root/Chop version 3.4: Concrete angle

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Root/Chop version 3.4: City scum

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Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social · 26d

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Root/Chop version 3.4: Andre Breton

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Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social · 26d

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Root/Chop version 3.4: Inspiration

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Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social · 26d

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Root/Chop version 3.4: Innovative investigation

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Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social · 26d

Portrait series of my old friend and poet Vaios Fotis, posing as André Breton, 2010. See comments for more.

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Root/Chop version 3.4: Shame on you

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Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social · 27d

First UG Induction Day talk today with my Programme Director in BA (Hons) Business Studies hat on - opened by playing Dropout Boogie to set up the scene

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Dropout Boogie, by Your Old Droog & MF DOOM

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Dani Shanley @danishanley.bsky.social · 29d

And that's a wrap! @hypestudies.bsky.social conference over and out! 🫡Thank you so much to all the incredible people who attended.
This is what academia can be 🫶

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hypestudies.bsky.social @hypestudies.bsky.social · Sep 11

Thought provoking panel on Socio-ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare and Hype. Excellent presentations by Thomas Tsakalakis, Gili Yaron and Violet Petit-Steeghs, Sofie Kronberger, Albina Abzalova, and Roanne van Voorst, Ph.D. who also, masterfully, chaired the session.

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Darian Meacham @posteurope.bsky.social · Sep 10

Looks like an amazing conference organised by the @hypestudies.bsky.social crew in Barcelona. Great work from @danishanley.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social and many [email protected].

Dani Shanley @danishanley.bsky.social · Sep 10

Here we go, keynote time @hypestudies.bsky.social conference.

Packed room here and around 50 people tuning in online!

@gemmamilne.bsky.social rocking it, as per. 🔥🔥🔥

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Dani Shanley @danishanley.bsky.social · Sep 10

@hypestudies.bsky.social hitting the town!

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Dani Shanley @danishanley.bsky.social · Sep 10

Here we go, keynote time @hypestudies.bsky.social conference.

Packed room here and around 50 people tuning in online!

@gemmamilne.bsky.social rocking it, as per. 🔥🔥🔥

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hypestudies.bsky.social @hypestudies.bsky.social · Sep 10

💮Keynote time💮
🔥Excited to close the first day of our conference with a talk by the amazing Gemma Milne on 'Hype and the Age of Badness'🔥
Opening by our Dani Shanley!

@gemmamilne.bsky.social
@danishanley.bsky.social

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