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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 26d

digital cultures and arts @digitalculturesandarts.ch · 29d

From 02–04 October 2025, our conference «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism» will take place in Zurich.

Across three locations and with contributions by scholars and artists, the conference will analyze today's economies of networked image cultures.

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International Conference: «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism»

Bringing together scholars and artists from a range of fields and backgrounds, the international conference «React & Respond» aims to map and analyze these contemporary economies of networked image cu...

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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · Aug 27

really informative

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · May 21

I find this essay compelling and one big takeaway is all LLM production is a hallucination and understanding the risk of error is essentially impossible because the set of errors is unbounded.

Colin @colin-fraser.net · Apr 24

I wrote a new essay about AI.

This time I'm writing about "The Hallucination Problem"—what it is, why it is, and what there is to be done about it. As usual for my writing on this topic, it's long, but here are the CliffsNotes.

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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · Aug 13

It is always good news when a new issue of this journal is out July 2025 is on Bayes Computational Culture – a journal of software studies share.google/u8wPNGFddcTc...

Computational Culture

a journal of software studies

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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · Aug 12

the lethal loop between surveillance and death in computational systems and AI in particular makes the Palestinian flesh a crucial component of capitalist value extraction, a recursive iteration of a foundational moment...

Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · Aug 12

For Israel to deploy AI-powered deadly force against them, Palestinians must simultaneously be the lives from which surveillance data is captured, and the tabulation of deaths through which the lethality of AI systems is demonstrated and later improved, writes Sarah Fathallah.

Artificial Intelligence and the Orchestration of Palestinian Life and Death | TechPolicy.Press

The tabulation of Palestinian deaths is used to enhance the lethality of the systems targeting them, writes Sarah Fathallah.

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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · Aug 12

Intrigued by Leif Weatherby's book Language Machines just out with Minnesota Press reviewed here by Rob Horning #LLM

robhorning.substack.com/p/eliza-pill...

Eliza-pilled

About Leif Weatherby's 'Language Machines' and being entertained by "auto-intimacy"

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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · Aug 12

Thoughtful and inspiring reflections by Ash Sharma on the spirit of Bandung Afro-Asian solidarity as unfinished project and structure of feeling #Bandung #culturalstudies substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Bandung at 70

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference 2025

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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · Aug 6

Palantir is becoming the US government contractor of choice, embodying its idea of government as essentially policing?https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-government-contracting-push/

Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government

Palantir has become one of the few winners in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, offering other contractors a lifeline while consolidating its own reach and power.

www.wired.com

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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · Aug 6

please share links that can help think through this: are these investments proportionate? is this just a bubble? will they make any difference? what is it that they are trying to achieve in terms of applications? thanks

Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · Aug 6

Tech giants are lavishing on AI development the kind of capital that would be needed to secure the social and ecological transition necessary to counter the apocalyptic horizon that is looming over the planet and the human species....
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Big tech has spent $155bn on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more

Tech giants have spent more on AI than the US government has on education, jobs and social services in 2025 so far

www.theguardian.com

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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · Aug 5

important work by Martina Tazzioli on technology and migration

Martina Tazzioli @smartitaz.bsky.social · Jul 8

Glad to see the article “Which Data Am I?”. The Making of Migrants' Scattered Subjectivities and the Impossibility of Giving an Account of Oneself" now out in International Migration.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
special issue on The Digitized Migration

“Which Data Am I?”. The Making of Migrants' Scattered Subjectivities and the Impossibility of Giving an Account of Oneself

This paper interrogates the making of digital subjectivities that stem from the multiple data extractions that migrants experience. It argues that the digitalisation of the border regime does not pro...

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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · Jul 28

Over the past 5 years, I have been involved in conversations with Luciana Parisi, Ezekiel Dixon-Roman and Oana Parvan around ideas of recursivity, colonialism and the apocalypse. We just published a short article here #recursivity #CCB #colonialism
academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-...

Recursive apocalypse

Abstract. This article posits that the recursive algorithm of apocalypse, including fascism, can be understood as part of the continuous logic of recursive

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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · Jul 24

I feel like I have fallen into a kind of rabbit hole following a reference about Palantir's CEO Alex Karp holding a phd in "neoclassical social science" from Frankfurt University

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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · Jul 22

From Paolo Gerbaudo on the #bigtechdeepstate the ever closer integration of computational capital in the security state infrastructure
jacobin.com/2025/07/big-...

The Big Tech Deep State

Digital technology was sold as a liberating tool that could free individuals from state power. Yet the state security apparatus always had a different view — and now it’s taking back control of its ow...

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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · Jun 29

got to keep an eye on palantir

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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · Jun 15

Very appreciative of readings that point in the direction of rethinking tactics against authoritarianism www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We are no longer free. But we can win our freedom back

To meet this moment in US history, we need to revisit the rich – and successful – tradition of nonviolent disruption

www.theguardian.com

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Subjectivity Journal @j4subjectivity.bsky.social · May 14

Before and After the Internet. We have just published a review of two recent books on #AlgorithmicCulture and #PlatformCapitalism by @striphas.bsky.social and @synthesiastica.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Before and after the internet - Subjectivity

Subjectivity -

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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · May 14

My solidarity and respect to Alondra Nelson

Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · May 13

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · May 14

thank u I am actually on the board of the journal I believe could I send me a copy? thanks

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · May 8

Cassocks are red
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a

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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · Apr 17

Several of the journalists affiliated with +972 are also behind the documentary No Other Land, a powerful account of land seizure and human rights violations, which was awarded the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film 2025.

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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · Apr 17

Over the years, it has become known for its critical, investigative journalism—particularly during the war on Gaza. Among its most significant contributions a widely cited exposé on Israeli military’s use of AI-driven targeting systems, which reportedly enable indiscriminate attacks on civilians.

Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · Apr 17

s an independent, nonprofit online publication founded in 2010 by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli journalists. Its mission is to deliver in-depth reporting, analysis, and commentary from the ground in Israel-Palestine.

Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · Apr 17

Recording of the event with #+972 Magazine on Independent Journalism in Israel Palestine

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuWY...

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DDD - +972 & Local Call

YouTube video by John Cabot University – JCUTV

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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · Apr 16

This article by Astra Taylor and Naomi Klein has already been repeatedly shared and commented and deserves to, it pinpoints with sharp focus the traits of the neoreactionary ideology
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

www.theguardian.com

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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · Apr 12

As Director of CRiTT (Transational Technoculture Research Centre) I am happy to share our next two events organized by our John Cabot University and Ca Foscari University nodes #israelpalestine #972magazine #colonialism #criticalanimalstudies #CRiTT #independentjournalism #johncabot #cafoscari

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