Patrick Brian Smith
@patrickbriansmith.bsky.social
Assistant Professor and University Fellow at the University of Salford
// media, forensics, human rights, law + doc/spatial/political theory // https://salford-repository.worktribe.com/person/2316413/patrick-brian-smith
// media, forensics, human rights, law + doc/spatial/political theory // https://salford-repository.worktribe.com/person/2316413/patrick-brian-smith
"The World According to Military Targeting" asks how we came to live in a ‘closed world’ shaped by targeting logics. Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud shows how military doctrine, data, and AI remake politics through endless war—and the deep social violence this produces.
January 14, 2026 at 8:32 PM
"The World According to Military Targeting" asks how we came to live in a ‘closed world’ shaped by targeting logics. Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud shows how military doctrine, data, and AI remake politics through endless war—and the deep social violence this produces.
If you'd like to read the English version, do feel free to reach out!
December 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
If you'd like to read the English version, do feel free to reach out!
The article examines AI-driven warfare by Israel in Gaza & the West Bank, framing it as a political ecology of militarisation. It argues big tech’s AI complicity signals a future where imperial states weaponise ecologies toward genocidal ends on a climate-changed planet.
December 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The article examines AI-driven warfare by Israel in Gaza & the West Bank, framing it as a political ecology of militarisation. It argues big tech’s AI complicity signals a future where imperial states weaponise ecologies toward genocidal ends on a climate-changed planet.
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Sasha Crawford-Holland, @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social, and Andrew Williams look at open-source investigation and propose tactics to counter epistemic injustice aimed at fostering pluralistic, decentralised, and solidarity-based OSI practices.
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Law’s capture of human rights focused open-source investigation
Abstract. With new protocols emerging to regulate the field of open-source investigation, this article critiques their widespread deference to the requirem
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June 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Sasha Crawford-Holland, @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social, and Andrew Williams look at open-source investigation and propose tactics to counter epistemic injustice aimed at fostering pluralistic, decentralised, and solidarity-based OSI practices.
academic.oup.com/lril/article...
academic.oup.com/lril/article...