📢 Another addition to our Forum on Tech Oligarchy! 📜 In "Rite to mine: Bitcoin, ritual, and oligarchy," Owen Marshall examines crypto-mining as a foundational ritual practice of tech oligarchy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Rite to mine: Bitcoin, ritual, and oligarchy

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Issue number 2 in 2026 is out (vol 35. n. 2)! The issue discusses several topics such as curatorial practice, scientization, and planetary imaginaries. It also includes book and media reviews that connect STS issues with board games, art exhibits, and journalism www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/c...

📢 In the latest contribution to the Forum on Tech Oligarchy, "Tech Oligarchy is not Tech," @sakhavi.bsky.social reflects on tech oligarchy's rejection of the immanent politics of tech practice. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Tech oligarchy is not tech

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Just out! My introduction to a new special issue in @sciasculture.bsky.social on "Tech Oligarchy" - go check it out and the papers in the special issue (under "Latest" articles) #techoligarchy #assetization #techbro #bigtech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tech oligarchy

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📢 +1 for our Forum on Tech Oligarchy 📜 In "Infrastructuring tech-oligarchic futures: sociotechnical imaginaries and frontier environments in the San Francisco Bay Area," Canan Urhan examines how elite technological imaginaries become ordinary through curated environments. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

📢 Another interesting addition to the Forum on Tech Oligarchy! 📜 The article "Brazil’s supreme court on content moderation: national sovereignty versus tech oligarchy," by @jamesfitz2.bsky.social, Carlos Eduardo Barros, Debora S., and Rose Marie Santini is now available! 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Brazil’s supreme court on content moderation: national sovereignty versus tech oligarchy

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📢 New open-access article just out! 📜 "Ecologies of time: interdisciplinarity and temporal misalignments in data-mediated environmental research collaboration," by Virginia Vargolskaia and @ulrike-felt.bsky.social #interdisciplinarity #knowledgeproduction #STS 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Ecologies of time: interdisciplinarity and temporal misalignments in data-mediated environmental research collaboration

Temporal misalignments pose significant challenges to interdisciplinary collaborations between ecologists and data scientists in environmental research projects. Even though data infrastructures ar...

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📢 New addition to the Forum on Tech Oligarchy! 📜 "How the tech oligarchy colonizes our futures," by Jennifer Chubb and @drfuturity.bsky.social, shows how tech oligarchy conjures opposing visions of desirable and undesirable futures in their technoentrepreneurial projects. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

How the tech oligarchy colonizes our futures

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Twenty years ago, Science as Culture published the article "Living cities: Towards a politics of conviviality," by Steve Hinchcliffe and Sarah Whatmore. The article defended "living cities" as a paradigm for urban ecology policies. Now, the article is available free access! doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Living cities: Towards a politics of conviviality

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📢 New article just out! 📜 In "Leaving Earth behind: the semiotics of the failing planet in NewSpace online corporate imagery," Katherine Harrison shows how NewSpace capitalises on the profitable combination of private spaceflight and terrestrial precarity. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Leaving Earth behind: the semiotics of the failing planet in NewSpace online corporate imagery

Computer-generated imagery (CGI) of Earth published online by the private space industry, or ‘NewSpace,’ produces understandings of a failing planet to justify the commercialisation of space and te...

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📢 Forum on Tech Oligarchy welcomes a new piece! 📜 "Tech-oligarchic visions of automated science: lessons from Franz Neumann’s Behemoth," by Frank Söderberg. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

📣New article! 📄"Harmonising automation: Challenge-driven robotics and the making of Europe," by Carlos Cuevas-Garcia, Benjamin Lipp, Federica Pepponia, and Mathieu Baudrin 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Harmonising automation: challenge-driven robotics and the making of Europe

Robotics and artificial intelligence are regularly framed as potential solutions to grand societal challenges such as climate change, staff shortages and demographic aging. The European Union has d...

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📸 In our latest Media Review "Curating across epistemologies: art, science, and technology studies in practice," Hannah Roger Stars uses an STS lens to analyse the photography exhibition Picturing the Invisible, by Makoto Takahashi. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

📣 New article! 📄 "Research participants as ‘pioneers’? Exploring how neurotechnology research is adapting the rhetoric of scientific risk-taking, exploration and trailblazing," by Andrew Ivan Brown, Sara Goering, and Eran Klein 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

📣New article! 📄Our latest Forum on Tech Oligarchy article examines the mechanisms through which tech oligarchy takes shape in the field of urban mobility in China. "Tech oligarchy and urban mobility in China: the case of DiDi," by @taoyue.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Tech oligarchy and urban mobility in China: the case of DiDi

Taking DiDi Chuxing as its case, this Forum Article examines the mechanisms through which tech oligarchy takes shape in the field of urban mobility in China. Through a digital analysis of DiDi’s pl...

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📢New Forum article! 📜 In "Small Modular Reactors: scaling down to better scale-up?", Mathias Sabbe and Céline Parotte examine the extent to which international Small Module Reactor (SMR) proponents’ promissory discourse aligns with those involved in SMR in Europe 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Small Modular Reactors: scaling down to better scale-up?

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📢 NEW ARTICLE! Forum on Tech Oligarchy 📜 "The Student becomes the teacher: what the early American automotive industry taught the tech oligarchy, and what the modern industry has learned," by @mcforelle.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

The Student becomes the teacher: what the early American automotive industry taught the tech oligarchy, and what the modern industry has learned

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📢 NEW ARTICLE JUST OUT! "Governing by dismantling: tech oligarchy and the stifling of public data infrastructure," by @louravn.bsky.social, Bokar N'Diaye, Katie Mackinnon, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, and @dmuravyov.bsky.social is another addition to our Forum on Tech Oligarchy 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Governing by dismantling: tech oligarchy and the stifling of public data infrastructure

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📜 New article! In "The specificity ratchet: agribusiness techniques for contesting state knowledge about antibiotics," @lansing.bsky.social shows how industry groups in the US instrumentalize knowledge production to gain favorable public opinion and regulatory advantage 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

The specificity ratchet: agribusiness techniques for contesting state knowledge about antibiotics

Powerful business groups are known to deny, block, and obfuscate public knowledge about their industries. Public comments by agricultural interest groups concerning the United States Food and Drug ...

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📣Now open: Call for the next Editor-in-Chief of @tapuya.org We're looking for a leader (or editorial collective) to shape the future of one of the most distinctive open-access journals in Latin American STS.📓 🔥Read the call: tapuya.org/2026/05/15/call-for-nominations-2026-tapuyas-editor-in-chief/

📖 NEW BOOK REVIEW In the review article "(Un)making kinship and care through conservation technoscience," Katie Kung opens up conversations on enmity and care that resonate across environmental STS by analysing kin/non-kinship dichotomies across conservation practices. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

(Un)making kinship and care through conservation technoscience

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New addition to the Forum on Tech Oligarchy (ed. @keanbirch.bsky.social) "The rise of the tech oligarchy and its military entanglements: a platform approach," by Marijn Hoijtink, @jaspervdkist.bsky.social, and Laszlo Steinwärder #platform #techoligarchy #militaryindustry 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

The rise of the tech oligarchy and its military entanglements: a platform approach

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New Forum on Tech Oligarchy piece! In "Dictators of the future: the tech oligarchy in outer space", @renny-hahamovitch.bsky.social, @rekapatriciagal.bsky.social, Eleanor Armstrong, and @historyasif.bsky.social unpack tech oligarchy's obsession with outer space visions doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Dictators of the future: the tech oligarchy in outer space

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Today, Palantir posted their manifesto to millions. I published an analysis of exactly this text in @sciasculture.bsky.social, arguing it functions not as political theory but as a corporate manifesto for the nationalist-militarist faction of the tech oligarchy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

📜 In our latest open-access article, part of the Forum on Tech Oligarchy, @richardsonma.bsky.social and @arungapatchka.bsky.social dive deep into the coercive capacity of tech oligarchy 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

New book review out! "The Teumessian fox of Responsible AI", by @tessdoez.bsky.social. The review discusses the book "Empire of AI" (Karen Hao) doi.org/10.1080/0950...

The Teumessian fox of responsible AI

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We're hiring! Looking for a #postdoc (3 years) and #PhD (4 years) in #STS and aquatic restoration! Hired researchers will join University of @oulu.fi, the amazing SAFIRE multidisciplinary research programme, and a growing team of researchers interested in water and environment. Deadline 03.05.26.

Postdoctoral Researcher and Doctoral Researcher, Science and Technology Studies (STS) and aquatic restoration in the Nordic and Arctic regions

We are looking to hire highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher and Doctoral Researcher to join the Department of Anthropology, in the History, Culture and Communications Unit at the Faculty of Humani

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I have another new piece just out, considering the intersection of #surveillance and #ScienceFiction, this time in the context of the the ideologies of tech oligarchs, in Science as Culture, edited by @keanbirch.bsky.social and Les Levidow... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Total surveillance as a civilizational stage? Science-fiction, religion and the tech oligarchy

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📜 New open access article! In this piece, Henni Alava and @mw-m.bsky.social analyze the scientization of sisu, a complex, loosely defined concept historically associated with Finland, as an example of overscientization and apolitical oversimplification. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Paradoxical scientization: sisu, Finnish exceptionalism, and the limits of universal human experience

Scientization tends to be understood as a process whereby a form of knowledge is rendered scientifically legitimate. In this way, scientists work with other experts and lay theories to move claims ...

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📄 The Forum on Tech Oligarchy receives another addition! In this piece, Shuo (Shawn) Yang examines how tech oligarchy produces innovation without representation by looking at their capacity to consolidate epistemic, infrastructural, and symbolic power. doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Innovation without representation: epistemic, infrastructural and symbolic power in frontier AI governance

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