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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 3d

Wrote more about Benjamin Bratton's paranoid imagination of a media studies cabal holding back AI progress in Europe. mail.cyberneticforests.com/is-the-media...

Is the Media Studies Cabal in the Room With Us Right Now?

I read The Stack in 2020 as a grad student in ANU's Applied Cybernetics program. I give it credit for directing my attention to the interaction between layers of digital and physical infrastructures. ...

mail.cyberneticforests.com

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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 6d

Our latest issue just out and, we think we can say this, it is a banger. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/c... feat. @philiproscoe.bsky.social @ulissess.bsky.social @cibled.bsky.social @maijutanninen.bsky.social @busedoyu.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social @theobourgeron.bsky.social &&

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 7d

‘The “three energy transitions” narrative is a story that progresses logically to a happy ending. And that raises a question. What if it is a fairy tale dressed up in a business suit or, worse, a mirage, a dangerously seductive illusion?’

— @adamtooze.bsky.social

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Adam Tooze · Trouble Transitioning: What energy transition?

An honest account of energy history would conclude not that energy transitions were a regular feature of the past, but...

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 22d

I have a review of John Ganz's When The Clock Broke in the new LRB www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

William Davies · Repeal the 20th Century: Pre-MAGA

To understand the intellectual coordinates of Trumpism requires us to look in less conventional places and to pay more...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 7d

It is in terrific company next to brilliant work by @philiproscoe.bsky.social, @theobourgeron.bsky.social, @cibled.bsky.social, @imaginaries.bsky.social, @busedoyu.bsky.social, @zephoria.bsky.social, @maijutanninen.bsky.social, among others :)

www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/1...

Journal of Cultural Economy

Volume 18, Issue 5 of Journal of Cultural Economy

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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 7d

Our article on the design-ification of future making (out last March) has finally found a home in the latest issue of @jcultecon.bsky.social (i.e., vol. 18, no. 5)! :)

doi.org/10.1080/1753...

The design-ification of future making: uncertainty and divination in contemporary business discourse

This article investigates how design-oriented approaches have made their way into contemporary business discourse. It does so by exploring how the figures of ‘the strategist' and ‘the entrepreneur'...

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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 28d

When it comes to finance and democracy, an error has *definitely* occurred.

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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 29d

Maybe @hypestudies.bsky.social can help?

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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · Aug 21

Positionings of Embedded Design
gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/...

"This publication gives a glimpse into the work done by 2025 and 2026 cohorts of the Embedded Design MFA program at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg."

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Loïc Riom @loicriom.bsky.social · Aug 27

Mardi prochain

@unil.bsky.social

Plus d'info: www.unil.ch/events/17550...

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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · Aug 27

Photograph by Rodrigo Moya: La Muchacha, Tren viejo México-Cuautla, 1966

Rodrigo Moya a bordo de un barco atunero en algún lugar del Pacífico, 1977

Photograph by Rodrigo Moya: Guerrilleros en la niebla, Sierra Falcón, Venezuala, 1966

Photograph by Rodrigo Moya: Che Guevara, La Habana, Cuba, 1964

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · Aug 26

Design criticism remains stuck in nostalgia for the glory days of graphic design, so it never made the leap to coherent criticism of interactive digital products and services where the thing you need to critique is the underlying business model because everything follows from that.

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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · Aug 23

Ah close enough

Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · Aug 23

Did AI write this?

Nature @nature.com · Aug 22

Without artificial-intelligence technologies, balancing human-caused greenhouse-gas emissions with carbon removals by 2050 is out of reach

go.nature.com/41LtWWk

Net zero needs AI — five actions to realize its promise

Without artificial-intelligence technologies, balancing human-caused greenhouse-gas emissions with carbon removals by 2050 is out of reach. Action in five areas is needed to keep this goal alive.

go.nature.com

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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · Aug 21

Positionings of Embedded Design
gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/...

"This publication gives a glimpse into the work done by 2025 and 2026 cohorts of the Embedded Design MFA program at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg."

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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · Aug 14

'Who pays for the $3tn AI building boom?' on.ft.com/4fHmxxe

Who pays for the $3tn AI building boom?

With the data centre race in full swing, private capital is joining Big Tech in seeking to capture the rewards

on.ft.com

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delaeconomia @delaeconomia.bsky.social · Aug 8

Michel Callon (1945-2025) estudiosdelaeconomia.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/m...

Michel Callon (1945-2025)

Michel Callon falleció el 28 de julio de 2025. Más información sobre su trayectoria y el immenso impacto de su obra en el sitio del CSI: Difícil imaginar tantas de las discusiones en este sitio e i…

estudiosdelaeconomia.wordpress.com

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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · Aug 8

Or better yet, read this:

Heuts, Frank, and Annemarie Mol. 2013. “What Is a Good Tomato? A Case of Valuing in Practice”. Valuation Studies 1 (2):125-46. doi.org/10.3384/vs.2...

Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · Aug 7

Some very saddening news.

Jérôme Denis @jrmdns.bsky.social · Aug 7

The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.

A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.

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natureandspace.bsky.social @natureandspace.bsky.social · Apr 28

OnlineFirst- "Beyond AI as an environmental pharmakon: Principles for reopening the problem-space of machine learning's carbon footprint" by Loup Cellard, @profchristine.bsky.social, and Fiona Haines:

@admscentre.org.au

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · Aug 4

“AI-native universities” 🤡

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jun 7

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has a plan to overhaul college education — by embedding its artificial intelligence tools in every facet of campus life.
If the company’s strategy succeeds, universities would give students A.I. assistants to help guide and tutor them from orientation day through graduation. Professors would provide customized A.I. study bots for each class. Career services would offer recruiter chatbots for students to practice job interviews. And undergrads could turn on a chatbot’s voice mode to be quizzed aloud ahead of a test.
OpenAI dubs its sales pitch “A.I.-native universities.”

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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · Aug 3

“Given that worlds are always more implied than they are described, we can say further that fandom disputes—canon wars—are ontological arguments about the world in question, they are attempts to express values and ideals through the ordering of a reality.”

Paul Graham Raven @paulgrahamraven.com · Aug 3

Weeknotes/ week 31 / 2025: churches of futurity

What can we learn about futures from thinking about them as if they were faiths or fandoms? Quite a lot, if you ask me...

https://www.worldbuilding.agency/weeknotes/week-31-2025-churches-of-futurity/

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EL PAÍS México @elpaismexico.bsky.social · Jul 31

Moya es considerado uno de los grandes maestros de la imagen en México, documentó las guerrillas de Latinoamérica, la invasión estadounidense de República Dominicana, la revolución cubana y los movimientos sociales del 68. dozz.es/g2cn54

Muere Rodrigo Moya, el lente revolucionario de la fotografía mexicana

El fotógrafo comprometido con las luchas sociales fue el retratista de importantes personalidades de su tiempo, como Ernesto Che Guevara o Gabriel García Márquez

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elif buse doyuran @busedoyu.bsky.social · Jun 30

And now with open access on our blog www.journalofculturaleconomy.org/a-sociology-...

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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · Jul 22

New from ephemera: 'Organizing for apocalypse' ephemerajournal.org/issue/organi...