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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Jul 18

A heartfelt thank-you to @ohalpern.bsky.social and Robert for their generous and thought-provoking responses to my (sometimes overly long!) questions, and to the editors for their kind invitation to contribute!

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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Jul 18

Some time ago, I had the pleasure (privilege, really) of conversing with Orit Halpern (@ohalpern.bsky.social) and Robert Mitchell about their book 'The Smartness Mandate'. The result of that exchange is now published in the latest issue of 'I Quaderni di Into the Black Box': bit.ly/3TMXwX5

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jun 27

Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency by @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social and @casey-lynch.bsky.social in Urban Geography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency

This article interrogates the reconfiguration of human-technology relationships through urban artificial intelligence (AI), complicating how the human subject is understood and invoked within urban...

www.tandfonline.com

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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Jun 23

We hope this might open new directions for engaging the politics of urban AI and for broadening the questions geographers and others ask about emerging sociotechnical systems.

fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Jun 23

In it, we complicate how the human subject is invoked in urban scholarship on AI by rethinking intelligence, autonomy, and agency through a posthumanist lens.

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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Jun 23

Excited to share a new open access article with @casey-lynch.bsky.social, just out in @urbangeography.bsky.social:
"Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency":

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Casey Lynch @casey-lynch.bsky.social · Jun 23

New article in Urban Geography! @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social and I question concepts of intelligence, autonomy, and agency in urban AI literature through a discussion of the critical posthumanisms of Braidotti, Latour, and (in particular) Hayles to multiply the sites and actors of urban AI politics.

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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Jun 10

The 10th STS Italia Conference kicks off tomorrow, 11 June, in Milan. If you’re around, you’re very welcome to join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me for our two sessions on ‘Simondon & AI’ in the afternoon. Abstract details here: stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...

fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Dec 12

CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me at #STSItalia2025 in Milan next June! Abstracts due 3 February 2025.

For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · May 19

Looks fascinating - via @vgoujon.bsky.social : journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Artificial intelligence and the state: Seeing like an artificial neural network - Petter Törnberg, Ola Söderström, Jennifer Barella, Saskia Greyling, Sophie Oldfield, 2025

The emergence of the modern state was closely intertwined with the advent of statistics and demographic data. Today, we are witnessing the ascent of artificial ...

journals.sagepub.com

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Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social · May 8

✨ Very happy to share that my new paper on data annotation practices in affective computing is out ✨ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🙏 thanks to the fantastic editors of this SI on the politics of machine learning evaluation @dluitse.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social & Tobias Blanke

Taming Affect: On the Construction of Objectivity in Data Annotation Practices - Digital Society

Affective computing applications promise to decode human emotional expressions and provide objective insights into users’ affective experience, ranging from frustration and boredom to states of clinic...

link.springer.com

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Paolo Bory @paolobory.bsky.social · May 5

Our special issue co-edited with @chrish6699.bsky.social and @stefanocanali.bsky.social is finally out!
"Metaverse Datafication: Technologies, Definitions, and Futures"

www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/2...

Information, Communication & Society

Special Issue: Metaverse Datafication: Technologies, Definitions, and Futures. Guest Editors: Chris Hesselbein, Paolo Bory and Stefano Canali. Volume 28, Issue 5 of Information, Communication & Societ...

www.tandfonline.com

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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Apr 23

Don’t miss @selinnugent.bsky.social’s great piece in the AI & Society special issue that @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and I are guest editing, exploring evolutionary analogies in AI research and how biological diction shapes imaginaries of AI as individuated systems link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Apr 23

Congrats, Selin! So happy to see your fantastic piece out!

fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Feb 20

Hi Matthew, that sounds great, thank you so much!

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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Feb 20

Featuring chapters by @melhogan.bsky.social & Gwendolyn Blue; @stephen-cornford.bsky.social; Sy Taffel; @caitlinhafferty.bsky.social, @jirkapanek.bsky.social & Ian Babelon; @ruthmachen.bsky.social; @icalzada.bsky.social; and Jessica McLean, among others

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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Feb 20

"Digital Technologies for Sustainable Futures: Promises and Pitfalls" (Certomà, Iapaolo, Martellozzo, eds.), published last year by Routledge: bit.ly/4cxnwxz

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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Feb 6

Hi Shamil, sure

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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · Feb 4

Starting today (Feb 4-6)! "Urban Speculations: Cities, Technologies, Futures" conference brings together international scholars across STS, urban, geographical, media and speculation studies to explore speculations in their many dimensions (financial, technological, cultural) and urban spaces.

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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Jan 31

The deadline in next Monday, 3 February

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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Dec 12

CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me at #STSItalia2025 in Milan next June! Abstracts due 3 February 2025.

For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m

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Casey Lynch @casey-lynch.bsky.social · Jan 30

@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social and I are hoping to organize a session on the theme of 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' at this year's RGS-IBG (26-29 August 2025, Birmingham, UK). Please consider submitting! #geography #rgs

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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Jan 27

Latest from the special issue I’m guest-editing with @ludovico-rella.bsky.social for AI & Society—a fantastic piece by @benedetta.bsky.social, @sj-bennett.bsky.social & @ftollon.bsky.social: “Everybody knows what a pothole is”: representations of work and intelligence in AI practice and governance

Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social · Jan 27

📢 New publication out! 📢

Co-authored with the brilliant @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @ftollon.bsky.social, as part of @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social SI on ‘Where’s the Intelligence in AI? Mattering, Placing, and De-individuating AI' link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Jan 27

Hi Leah, I just added you to the list

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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Jan 27

Only one week left to send in your abstract for our panel on 'Gilbert Simondon and Artificial Intelligence' at #STSItalia2025, put together with @susanaaires.bsky.social and @ludovico-rella.bsky.social. Deadline: 3 February!

fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Dec 12

CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me at #STSItalia2025 in Milan next June! Abstracts due 3 February 2025.

For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m

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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Jan 21

The deadline is coming up for our CfA for #STSItalia2025: 'Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary' (Panel n.3)! Abstracts due 3rd February 2025. Organized with @susanaaires.bsky.social and @ludovico-rella.bsky.social. More info: bit.ly/49xJP5m

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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Jan 12

Added :)

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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · Dec 16

@chiarboni.bsky.social

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