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M. Beatrice Fazi

@mbfazi.bsky.social

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Philosophy, Computation, Technoscience. Associate Professor at the University of Sussex (UK). Author of “Contingent Computation” (2018). University page https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p378975-beatrice-fazi

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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 ⬇️

journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/ph...

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 1d

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...

www.tandfonline.com

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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you to The Royal Institute of Philosophy (@triphilosophy.bsky.social) and the department of Philosophy @sussex.ac.uk for the invitation to speak at this exciting event next week 🎙️💡🤖

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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you to The Royal Institute of Philosophy (@triphilosophy.bsky.social) and the department of Philosophy @sussex.ac.uk for the invitation to speak at this exciting event next week 🎙️💡🤖

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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · 17d

Saluting the sun and the sea on the first day of autumn 🌊☀️⛵️

#RegataDelConero2025

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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · 23d

Il mio mare 🧜🏻‍♀️🐠🌊🐬

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#Adriatico #Conero #Marche

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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · 23d

I will be back to the persistent rain soon enough …

M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · 23d

Il mio mare 🧜🏻‍♀️🐠🌊🐬

🩵🩵🩵

#Adriatico #Conero #Marche

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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · Sep 3

“First is sight, that is to say the eye; second is the form of the thing seen; third is the distance from the eye to the thing seen …” Piero della Francesca

Spending the day at Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino 🖼️🎨🏰

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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · Aug 30

Journey to the center of the Earth ⛰️🧭🦇👷🏻‍♀️

#FrasassiCaves #ValadierTemple #Marche

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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · Aug 28

Early dawning #Conero #Adriatico

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Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social · Jul 16

Part of an ongoing conversation between @mbfazi.bsky.social and me on AI/LLMs as "synthetic media" -- more to come!

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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · Aug 21

Is this the mothership?

📸 Adorno’s desk @goetheuni.bsky.social - Frankfurt

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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · Aug 21

Theory of colours in action at Goethe’s place 🏠 🎨💖 #GoetheHaus #Frankfurt

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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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · Aug 12

Golden hour over my favourite bay #Conero #Adriatico

M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · Jul 23

Mediterraneo, finalmente 🩵🧜🏻‍♀️☀️🐠 #Summer2025

M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · Jul 16

Automation at Brighton station 🤖🍦

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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · Jul 13

The symposium “Speculative Machines and Us” is next week 🤖📠👾💻

Thank you to @carolynpedwell.bsky.social for the invitation.

Join us at @lancasteruni.bsky.social on Thursday 17 July 2025 📆

The abstract for my talk is below ⬇️

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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · Jul 11

“Anthroposchematism”!!!

I hope you are well, it has been so long since we last saw each other.

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

I am sure this is just the beginning of an engaging and rewarding intellectual dialogue.

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

Thanks to @shanedenson.bsky.social for the engagement with my first paper on this topic. His phenomenological approach presents intriguing questions about some implications of my own structuralist position.

On the same issue of Philosophy & Digitality ⬇️

journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/ph...

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

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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · Jul 7

Very honoured to be on the Program Committee of the 8th edition of the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC) Conference.

The event will take place on December 17-19, 2025, at RWTH Aachen University in Germany.

hapoc.org/hapoc-8/

M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · Jul 3

Athena in gold 😎 #Pergamonmuseum #Berlin

M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · Jun 26

Wow! Def on the list of things to discuss when we meet next, together with this question I keep coming back, what is the difference between perception and sensation? (Is touch the former or the latter, in this specific case?)

I look forward to reading your forthcoming work 🤓

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