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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 18h

Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n

Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI

This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 1d

Such a nice paper on feature extraction as a project of perception - drone enclosures in digital India. “Feature extraction is an entirely speculative endeavour” rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Svamitva drone survey in Rajasthan. Source: Author.

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Benjamin Jacobsen @bnjacobsen.bsky.social · 22h

Thanks very much Thao!

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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 7d

✨Deeply honoured to deliver this year's Annual Digital Lecture at The National Archives! Drawing on our @erc.europa.eu Data Loss project, I'll explore how preservation creates loss in the digital age and what that means for the politics of archives. Nov 20 6pm at Senate House, London. Do join us!

Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 7d

Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!

When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age

Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.

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Benjamin Jacobsen @bnjacobsen.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks so much Nanna!

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Theory, Culture & Society @theoryculturesociety.org · 28d

ICYMI: David Beer. 'Explorations in the Indeterminacy of Computation: An Interview with M. Beatrice Fazi' - this interview with M. Beatrice Fazi explores in detail her work on computation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Explorations in the Indeterminacy of Computation: An Interview with M. Beatrice Fazi - David Beer, 2021

This interview with M. Beatrice Fazi explores in detail her work on computation. Focusing in particular upon her recent publications, it covers the themes of co...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · Sep 7

Glyph: Johns Hopkins Textual Studies – Samuel Weber, Deconstruction and the American Reception of French Theory
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Glyph: Johns Hopkins Textual Studies – Samuel Weber, Deconstruction and the American Reception of French Theory

Several journals played a significant role in introducing so-called ‘French Theory’ to the United States. They would include Yale French Studies, Diacritics, boundary 2 and&nbsp…

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Benjamin Jacobsen @bnjacobsen.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks Alex!

Benjamin Jacobsen @bnjacobsen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank so much Tanja! Looking forward to reading more of your articles as well :)

Benjamin Jacobsen @bnjacobsen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you Anna! It’s surreal

Benjamin Jacobsen @bnjacobsen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks Sam!

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Benjamin Jacobsen @bnjacobsen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks to @amoorelouise.bsky.social and everyone in the ALGOSOC at Durham @alexcampolo.bsky.social, @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @ludovico-rella.bsky.social - You have provided invaluable help and feedback with the application

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Benjamin Jacobsen @bnjacobsen.bsky.social · Sep 4

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...

New project to investigate societal consequences of using synthetic data to train algorithms

Researchers in the University of York’s Department of Sociology will lead one of the first large-scale, systematic social science studies of synthetic data.

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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · Aug 20

If you are at the Association for Philosophy & Literature conference, check out the panel “Philosophies of Intelligence,” organised by @theoryculturesociety.org

I will be speaking alongside N. Katherine Hayles, Luciana Parisi and Joel McKim.

📆 22 August 2025
⏰ 1.45 pm
🗺️ APL 2025 Frankfurt

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Aug 11

Digital Twins special issue in New Media & Society edited by Christoph Borbach, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun & Tristan Thielmann. 15 papers including one by Oliver Dawkins & myself. Interdisciplinary exploration of the conceptualisation and practices of digital twinning. journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/8

New Media & Society - Volume 27, Number 8

Table of contents for New Media & Society, 27, 8

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Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · Aug 11

One study concluded 70% of increased electric cost across US due to AI data centers.
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As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act

Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers.

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Aug 8

My essay “Because the twin is not a copy: the politics of digital twins” - written for a 2023 workshop organised by Christoph Borbach & out now in a special issue on digital twinning in #NewMedia&Society #DigitalTwins #algorithms journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Because the twin is not a copy: On the politics of digital twins - Louise Amoore, 2025

This essay explores the changing form of the digital twin as a political technology in the age of deep learning and generative artificial intelligence (AI). It ...

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · Aug 5

I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology

#STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation

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Do Artifacts Have Political Economy? - Kean Birch, 2025

Harking back to Langdon Winner's now classic essay “Do artifacts have politics?,” my aim in this article is to ask a very similar question—namely, do artif...

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Aug 1

We are looking for a Senior Manager for our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social A key person in our team & a future valued colleague. Apply here durham.taleo.net/careersectio... & feel free to DM me. Also look out for our October research fellows posts.

Senior Manager - Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · Jul 10

My follow-up article on synthesis in gen AI is now out 💥💥💥

Responding to @shanedenson.bsky.social
response, I expand on my transcendental argument about LLMs and develop the case for a structuralist reading of Kantian synthesis.

Available Open Access ⬇️

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · Jul 28

Nick Srnicek, Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI - @politybooks.bsky.social, October 2025
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Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI

Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI, Looking beyond the flurry of rapid changes in artificial intelligence, Silicon Empires uncovers the deep economic forces guiding the expansion of AI

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Jul 28

Thank you so much @elkeschwarz.bsky.social & @politicalgeography.bsky.social - I am so grateful for this generous discussion of Cloud Ethics. A disc collapsing in my spine prevented me from writing a reply 😔 with 5 months sick. Thank you @oliviamason.bsky.social for continuing without me ❤️

Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social · Jul 28

I had the pleasure of writing about @amoorelouise.bsky.social's excellent book Cloud Ethics for a forum in Political Geography. I really appreciate the opportunity to engage with Louise's work and to think about ethics anew. The forum is now published here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Reading Louise Amoore’s Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others, Duke University Press, Durham NC (2020), p. 232, ISBN (paper): 978-1-4780-0831-6 / (hardcover) 978-1-4780-0778-4, US$26.9...

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Dan Kotliar @danmk.bsky.social · Jul 19

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The article is open access at @icsjournal.bsky.social, and is available here:
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Can't stop the hype: scrutinizing AI's realities

Recently, we have been inundated with reports about the revolutions brought about by AI. However, much of our knowledge about these ‘revolutions’ arises from media sensationalism and advertising cl...

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Dan Kotliar @danmk.bsky.social · Jun 17

🆕New article in New Media & Society!🆕
On how cross-cultural encounters shape techies' perceptions of algorithms and their ethics. Focusing on immigrants to Silicon Valley, it calls for a more diverse view of SV's ideologies and their entanglement with algorithmic production. 🧵👇
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jul 18

Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction by @bnjacobsen.bsky.social in The Sociological Review journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction - Benjamin N. Jacobsen, 2025

The last few years have seen the rollout of several generative AI applications. Yet, it is often claimed by commentators and social scientists that these have o...

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