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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · Jun 20

Really looking forward to doing network history and critique @cdi-warwick.bsky.social next week! #blockchain #ai #media

Centre for Digital Inquiry @cdi-warwick.bsky.social · Jun 19

Blockchain vs. AI: Doing Network History in Our Current Situation
Forthcoming Public Talk by @sebgiessmann.bsky.social

Date: Next Wednesday, 25.06
Time: 10:00–11:00
Location: FAB0.08
Visit: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

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Centre for Digital Inquiry @cdi-warwick.bsky.social · Jun 20

Translated, freshly revised + OA! @sebgiessmann.bsky.social The Connectivity of Things (MIT Press) explores 6 layers of network cultures, download: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

At Warwick next Wed (10am, FAB0.08), he proposes a 7th layer of extractive, clashing infrastructures: Blockchain vs. AI.

The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures since 1832

A media history of the material and infrastructural features of networking practices, a German classic translated for the first time into English.Nets hold

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Centre for Digital Inquiry @cdi-warwick.bsky.social · Jun 19

Blockchain vs. AI: Doing Network History in Our Current Situation
Forthcoming Public Talk by @sebgiessmann.bsky.social

Date: Next Wednesday, 25.06
Time: 10:00–11:00
Location: FAB0.08
Visit: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

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Centre for Digital Inquiry @cdi-warwick.bsky.social · Jun 19

I QUIT!
feat. Cecilia Ghidotti & Craig Gent

Join us for a hybrid CDI-TV event on the politics of quitting, anti-work and refusal: warwick.ac.uk/cdi

Mon 23 June
17:00-18:00
FAB1.16 + livestream (subscribe!) youtube.com/@centrefordigitalinquiry

#Refusal #AntiWork #Operaismo

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Centre for Digital Inquiry @cdi-warwick.bsky.social · Mar 27

UKRAiNATV #EFIR 134 NOVARA MEDIA STUDIES x GEORGIAN POETRY GEORGIAN POETRY - Live w/ #CDI-TV's @vivaharehills.bsky.social - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hggd...

UKRAiNATV #EFIR 134 NOVARA MEDIA STUDIES x GEORGIAN POETRY GEORGIAN POETRY

YouTube video by StreamArtStudio / UKRAiNATV

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Centre for Digital Inquiry @cdi-warwick.bsky.social · Mar 6

Going live in one hour: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v7t...

Social engineering after the techlash on CDI TV

YouTube video by Centre for Digital Inquiry, University of Warwick

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Centre for Digital Inquiry @cdi-warwick.bsky.social · Mar 6

Open Letter from CRMEP Students & Researchers on Kingston University’s Proposed Closure of the Department of Humanities: www.e-flux.com/notes/658933...

Open Letter from CRMEP Students - Notes - e-flux

Students oppose the closure of Kingston University’s Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP).

www.e-flux.com

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Centre for Digital Inquiry @cdi-warwick.bsky.social · Mar 6

Many thanks for the engaging discussion on #disconnection!

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Centre for Digital Inquiry @cdi-warwick.bsky.social · Mar 5

Going live in 15 mins: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr_w...

Digital Disconnection with Alessandro Gandini

YouTube video by Centre for Digital Inquiry, University of Warwick

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Centre for Digital Inquiry @cdi-warwick.bsky.social · Mar 5

📴 Digital Disconnection, CDI-TV Livestream Today with Alessandro Gandini @afrontiercity.bsky.social | Tune in: 17:00 GMT - tinyurl.com/bdx2uw76

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Centre for Digital Inquiry @cdi-warwick.bsky.social · Mar 5

Pre-read for tomorrow’s livestream w/ @noortjem.bsky.social

New commentary on Ruckenstein, reflecting on the need to rethink "socio-technical" symmetry in STS as "the digital" increasingly turns social life into a resource: tinyurl.com/28trkz7z

Tune in @ 17:00 GMT, 06.03: tinyurl.com/3fu2w63n

Commentary on Minna Ruckenstein's ‘breathing spaces’ - Noortje Marres, 2025

This commentary is based on a review of the reflection paper by Minna Ruckenstein's on breathing spaces.

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Mar 4

Artificial Societies: Confronting Social Engineering after the Techlash hybrid symposium. Part of the Sociological Review Seminar Series.

6 Mar livestream @cdi-warwick.bsky.social buff.ly/0kKfgSJ
7 Mar event buff.ly/QsnXR9J

@michael-dieter.bsky.social @mvaldeb.bsky.social @noortjem.bsky.social‬

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Centre for Digital Inquiry @cdi-warwick.bsky.social · Mar 3

Busy week ahead at CDI!

📴 @afrontiercity.bsky.social – Digital Disconnection | Wed, 17:00 GMT
🌐 @noortjem.bsky.social – Reality Engineering | Thu, 17:00 GMT
🤖 Artificial Societies Symposium – Friday

Website: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cdi/
YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCgXqb4zJkXqQHoSrtdjW59Q

Centre for Digital Inquiry, University of Warwick

Warwick University's hub for critical digital research.

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Centre for Digital Inquiry @cdi-warwick.bsky.social · Mar 2

Next up from UKRAiNATV - ukrainatv.streamart.studio - still from the camp, a Trondheim-Krakow hot(s)pot - political cooking. This TUESDAY, 04.03.25, 3PM CET #StewArtNetwork

Centre for Digital Inquiry @cdi-warwick.bsky.social · Feb 27

Last chance to register for Artificial Societies!

How is social life being engineered by AI, platforms & Big Tech - often without accountability? Join our one-day hybrid symposium with keynotes & panels across disciplines, exploring resistance & alternatives: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

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Centre for Digital Inquiry @cdi-warwick.bsky.social · Feb 25

📢 CDI-TV Double Line-Up 📢

05.03 | 17:00-18:00 GMT
Digital Disconnection feat. Alessandro Gandini

06.03 | 17:00-18:00 GMT
Reality Engineering feat. Noortje Marres, Matias Valderrama Barragan & Greta Timaite

Join Onsite: Warwick Media Lab (FAB 1.16) | Online: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cdi

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Centre for Digital Inquiry @cdi-warwick.bsky.social · Feb 25

📢 CDI-TV Double Line-Up 📢

05.03 | 17:00-18:00 GMT
Digital Disconnection feat. Alessandro Gandini

06.03 | 17:00-18:00 GMT
Reality Engineering feat. Noortje Marres, Matias Valderrama Barragan & Greta Timaite

Join Onsite: Warwick Media Lab (FAB 1.16) | Online: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cdi

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Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · Feb 25

Reality engineering after the tech lash? Can't wait to discuss at @cdi-warwick.bsky.social on March 6 w @michael-dieter.bsky.social @mvaldeb.bsky.social et al Does tech today dismantle societal structures? Is social reality being engineered through AI, or its fantastical twin, the virtual society?

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Centre for Digital Inquiry @cdi-warwick.bsky.social · Feb 24

24.F3B.25 MULTISTREAM continues, now switching from Kyiv to Tblisi: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7hf...

SPECIAL 24H #EFIR 7th season of UKRAiNATV opening

YouTube video by StreamArtStudio / UKRAiNATV

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Michael Dieter @michael-dieter.bsky.social · Feb 24

CDI-TV joins 3RD ANNIV3RSARY OF FULLSCAL3 WAR IN UKRAIN3 MULTISTREAM today!
StreamArtNetwork (SAN) Branch - 11am CET; 10am GMT
Join the network, press , connect, share your inputs.
www.youtube.com/@streamartst...

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Centre for Digital Inquiry @cdi-warwick.bsky.social · Feb 23

NEW @ CDI Projects: Unheard City by @iainemsley.bsky.social - exploring the Internet of Things through sonification, sensing the socio-technical surrounds of connectivity: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

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Centre for Digital Inquiry @cdi-warwick.bsky.social · Feb 23

StreamArtNetwork and CDI-TV invite you to join 24.F3B.25 MULTISTREAM - 3RD ANNIV3RSARY OF FULLSCAL3 WAR IN UKRAIN3 24-hour livestream - starting tonight at 23.00 CET: youtube.com/@streamartst...

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Centre for Digital Inquiry @cdi-warwick.bsky.social · Feb 23

24.F3B.25 MULTISTREAM
3RD ANNIV3RSARY OF FULLSCAL3 WAR IN UKRAIN3

ONLINE real-time UPDATED PROGRAM w. ALL LINKS:
www.figma.com/proto/A9qWmb...
24h Hybrid Events Around the Stream Art Network from KYIV TO LONDON, AND MAYBE MORE, OR MAYBE LESS...

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Centre for Digital Inquiry @cdi-warwick.bsky.social · Jan 7

Kick off 2025 w/ CDI-TV! Join next Wed for a livestream with Valentina Tanni discussing her book Exit Reality: Vaporwave, Backrooms, Weirdcore, and Other Landscapes Beyond the Threshold #StreamArtNetwork

📅 When: 15 Jan, 5pm-6pm GMT
📍 Onsite: FAB 1.16
🌐 Online: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

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Craig Gent @vivaharehills.bsky.social · Dec 5

Last night I joined CDI-TV to discuss algorithms and power at work, drawing on the interventions I make in CYBERBOSS. Thanks @michael-dieter.bsky.social and co!

CDI-TV is a livestreaming experiment in hybrid togetherness, and part of the new StreamArtNetwork which includes UKRAiNIATV and THE VOID.

Me and Michael Dieter chatting about cyberbosses at CDI-TV in front of To Build A Better Mousetrap by Molleindustria

Just part of the green screen set-up at CDI-TV

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