Lecturer in Sociology at @UniofYork and Visiting Fellow at @ALGOSOC_ERC @GeogDurham
York, England
Joined January 2019
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Very excited to announce that my first book (co-written with prof. David Beer) will be published on 1st April 2021 with @BrisUniPress! It is an in-depth study of how Facebook algorithmically engineers social media memories. @UoY_SATSU @UoYSociology @UniOfYork
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There's a new special issue of the Parrhesia journal, dedicated to the work of Michel Serres:
Full open access PDF: parrhesiajournal.org/wp-cont…
TOC 👇
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@Wired: Nvidia’s latest scoop? They just bagged Gretel to supercharge AI training data. It’s like they’ve ordered data on demand! With the Swedish and European AI scene booming, synthetic data is the secret sauce. Get ready for some deliciously efficient… wired.com/story/nvidia-grete…
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⚡️NEW ARTICLE⚡️Simulation and the reality gap: Moments in a prehistory of synthetic data (with James Steinhoff, UCD) in @BigDataSoc available OA🔓: doi.org/10.1177/205395172413…
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BREAKING: Trump now reportedly wants Ukrainian President Zelensky to give up part of Ukraine’s land to Russia, hold elections, and possibly resign in order to receive U.S. aid, per NBC.
How about holding Putin to the same standard? How about making Putin give up part of Russia, hold elections without jailing, killing, or poisoning his opponents, and asking him to resign?
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In "DeepAesthetics," Anna Munster explores aesthetics, artificial intelligence, & machine learning to understand the contours of computational experience and the possibility to use AI to create new futures. Read the intro for free on our website now!
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ALT Cover of DeepAesthetics: Computational Experience in a Time of Machine Learning by Anna Munster. The cover features a navy blue background; white, diagonally aligned title text that starts in the top-left corner; and a slightly blurred closeup of a pink flower that takes up most of the lower half.
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Trending in #CulturalStudies:
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1) Minority Authoritarianism: The New Anti-Equality Agenda
2) Aníbal Quijano & the Decolonial Turn (@TCSjournalSAGE)
3) Synthetic Data & the Politics of Difference
4) Political Theology: Origins, Concepts & Contradictions
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New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Benjamin N. Jacobsen, 'Machine Learning, Synthetic Data, and the Politics of Difference'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
🚨Really excited to start the year with a new article just published in @TCSjournalSAGE on the intersection of synthetic data and AI: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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We are so excited to (virtually) host @thao_pow later this month, Jan 21st, where she will share her project “Testing-in-the-wild: innovation nationalism and the colonial dynamics of new technology testbeds”
Register here: centrefordronesandculture.co…
ALT Event post for the talk. Click the registration link to read the talk abstract.
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📢 Happy 2025 from the #CriticalAI seminar team✨On January 22, 5:30–7 PM (CET) we continue our series with Lilly Irani who will talk about 'Algorithms of Suspicion,' focusing on authentication and distrust on digital labour platforms
⚡️Sign up: create.humanities.uva.nl/eve…
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A last one for the day, the wonderful study on mathematical philosophy ''Why is there philosophy of mathematics at all?'' by Ian Hacking.
I particularly loved the chapters dedicated to the philosophy behind mathematical proofs and to Plato's philosophical influence on math.
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I am so happy to share this essay by yours truly! If you’re interested in my work on space, here it finally is in a condensed medium. In this text, I develop a theory of *historical spatiality* — an escape from relativism that can render history objective.
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My article “Machines That Create: Contingent Computation and Generative AI” is now published in @meejatheory
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There I address the claims proposed in my 2018 book Contingent Computation vis-à-vis the AI developments occurred since ✨
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Happy to share that my paper "On the individuation of complex computational models: Gilbert Simondon and the technicity of AI" is now available on AI & Society. Thanks to @ludovico_rella and @fabio_iapaolo for putting together this special issue!
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CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @SusanaAiresG, @ludovico_rella & 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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An unpublished interview with Fredric Jameson, by @kunktation:
"The Art of Criticism"
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📢 Just published by @ManchesterUP, "Digital Ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds" is a @digicologies edited collection exploring the world(s) of digital ecologies!
I have a chapter on 'ecological computationality'
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1/ Honored (!) to explore digital dispossession's implications for law, critical/cultural data studies & STS with @FleurEJ in @4sWeb's @BackchannelsJ: 4sonline.org/news_manager.ph…! Thank you Aaron Gregory and @ludovico_rella for your editorial hospitality and guidance! @ERC_Research
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Watch the Nobel Prize lectures in physics.
See 2024 physics laureates John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton deliver their Nobel Prize lectures.
Where are you watching from?
#NobelPrize
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