🚨 Publication alert 🚨 I just published an article in the Journal of Academic Ethics that examines how academic staff investigate and sanction suspected cases of academic misconduct.
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
"Turnitin and Grammarly do not simply detect plagiarism but actively reconfigure what counts as authorship, originality, and intellectual integrity ... reshaping academic labor through anticipatory compliance and rendering originality as machinic compatibility." 🔥 doi.org/10.1177/0263...
You will be part of an exciting, interdisciplinary research team based at @uoy-sociology.bsky.social that explores the effects of synthetic data and AI on society. The studentship is open to all EU and non-EU students. Applications are open until 10 april
In January, my @erc.europa.eu funded project ‘The Ethics of Synthetic Data in the Age of Machine Learning and AI’ started, and I am very excited to say that we are now hiring a fully funded PhD studentship for 2026/27 entry 🚨🚨
www.york.ac.uk/sociology/st...
New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Ethan Stoneman and Joseph C. Packer, 'Writing for Machines, Formatting Originality: Plagiarism Detection and the Automation of Authorship'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@fayboundalberti.bsky.social Fay Bound-Alberti, The Face: A Cultural History - Allen Lane, February 2026
www.penguin.co.uk/books/459227...
New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Tianren Luo, William Xing and Jingjia Xiao, 'Digital Sensing, Infrastructure of Sovereignty, and the Unmaking of the Chinese Surveillance State'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
ICYMI: Louise Amoore and Volha Piotukh, 'Interview with N. Katherine Hayles' - Hayles discusses the themes of her book
'Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious' published in 2017. (Free Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Annual Review: Diana Stypinska, 'Pastorate Digitalized: Social Media and (De)Subjectification' - shows how the digitalization of the pastoral directive culminates in the production of spectral subjects. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Ross Abbinnett, 'On Late Fascism: Derrida, Toscano and the Return of Absolute Hostility' - examines the question of the return of fascism to the political mainstream in European liberal democracies. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Take a look at what our academic and research staff published in January!👇
Berlin journalist @farangiesg.bsky.social writing on Palantir’s models & ICE, interviewed me about my work on the Deep Border & @erc.europa.eu research on machine learning worlds. Her article captures the violent spatial form of algorithmic targeting.
The @leverhulmecal.bsky.social PhD studentships are now live here leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/leverhulme-c... Are you looking for a PhD programme that supports interdisciplinary approaches to algorithmic life? Closing date 26 February
Our @leverhulmecal.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowship posts close for applications on 30 January. A few reflections on the frequently asked questions we have received. So much looking forward to reading your applications and building our team together youtube.com/watch?v=x4AMkxhe4bQ
Architecture Against Architecture: A Manifesto by Reiner de Graaf, out March 2026 from @versobooks.bsky.social! writers & reviewers, let me know if you’d like a copy!
Pleased to see this piece. Personally, I find these uses of synthetic data v concerning and I find the traction and endorsements that this work has to be quite baffling, esp given the well-storied role of algorithmic targeting in undermining democracy
@bnjacobsen.bsky.social and colleagues at @geogdurham.bsky.social have published an article examining how prompting in machine learning is reshaping political power, expertise, and governmental decision-making in Economy and Society.
#Prompting #MachineLearning #PoliticalPower #Decision #Government
This looks amazing - congratulations! Can’t wait to read
Good to see this bad boy out in the world!! New article from me on drone delivery, AI testbeds, and the long history science and technology testing in the colony.
Online first and gloriously open access ✨
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
Gilles Deleuze, On Painting: Courses, March-June 1981, ed. David
Lapoujade, trans. Charles J. Stivale – @uminnpress.bsky.social, August 2025
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791840...
53 years young and still trending
Today is the official UK publication day for Silicon Empires! I'm excited to have it out and hear what people think.
There's an enormous amount happening every day in AI, and it's difficult to gain a stable perspective. I wrote the book to try and get some secure hold on that constant flux. 🧵
Travel data has historically been a correlative proxy. Early 2000s data mining used one way flights (*purchased third party) in terror algorithms. These apparent “errors” by HMRC illuminate machine learning logics: 1/ combine gov cloud data
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Morten Høi Jensen, The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of "The Magic Mountain" - @yalepress.bsky.social, October 2025
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Looks fantastic Ludovico! Congrats!
Want to know more about #syntheticdata #assetization, #blockchain and #cloudinfrastructures in #finance? In this paper for @financeandspace.bsky.social , I talk about those topics, plus how synthetic data might be reworking financial #subjectivities! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New in Theory, Culture & Society: Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, 'Inhabiting the Face: From Fake to Deepfake' - traces how new technological developments in face recognition and artificial intelligence affect the way we inhabit our own faces. (Online First) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n
Such a nice paper on feature extraction as a project of perception - drone enclosures in digital India. “Feature extraction is an entirely speculative endeavour” rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
