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Benjamin Jacobsen

@bnjacobsen.bsky.social

Lecturer in Sociology at University of York and Visiting Fellow on ALGOSOC project at Durham University.

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Fenna Imara Hoefsloot@fennaimara.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper out with @ayonadatta.bsky.social in @proghumgeog.bsky.social: we use topology (yes, the maths of doughnuts) to rethink how digital tech reshapes territory. Boundaries stop being lines and start being stretchy continuums. Presence is relational. Land stays stubborn. doi.org/10.1177/0309...

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Stuart Elden@stuartelden.bsky.social · last mo.

I really feel journals should disclose to referees of an article that the author has used AI, and declared it, *before* referees spend time on it. I just read an article, taking some notes for a review, only to find the statement at the end. Had I read it first, I would have stopped reading then.

M. Beatrice Fazi@mbfazi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My latest essay is out📄"Off-Centre AI: On Alignment, Antihumanism and AI Ethics", published in Ars & Humanitas, in a special issue from Legacies of Antihumanism—the conference held at the University of Ljubljana in December 2024, where I gave a keynote. 🧵1/4

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Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Image models are not "a" model. Each component was built or integrated to solve a specific problem of computer vision — each engineered to automate a decision, each inscribing its bit of ideology into every generated image. My latest paper unpacks those decisions and what they inscribe.

The Market in the Model: Latent Diffusion as Neural Economy

Valuable critique of generative image models within visual culture and the humanities has emphasized the role of datasets in shaping the images they produce. Yet, close studies of the ideological posi...

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Louise Amoore@amoorelouise.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Six years ago I published a book that engaged machine learning in terms of the politics of text, language & the impossibility of definitive authorship. Are any of the men writing now on LLMs, authorship, and text citing my 2020 work?…. No, reader, they are not.

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Verso Books@versobooks.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Available for preorder - Algorithmic Capital: Resistance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Jonathan Durand Folco and Jonathan Martineau A rich and audacious account of the mutually reinforcing transformations of capitalism and technology in the age of AI

Algorithmic Capital

This book provides a critical theory of the new stage of algorithmic capitalism, and maps out paths for critique and resistance. AI and algorithms are not just technologies, they are rooted in new cap...

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Theory, Culture & Society@theoryculturesociety.org · 7mo ago

From the Archive: Thomas Lemke, 'An Alternative Model of Politics? Prospects and Problems of Jane Bennett’s Vital Materialism' - discusses basic arguments and important achievements of Jane Bennett’s vital materialism. (2018) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

An Alternative Model of Politics? Prospects and Problems of Jane Bennett’s Vital Materialism - Thomas Lemke, 2018

This article discusses the basic arguments and important achievements of Jane Bennett’s vital materialism, as well as some problems and limitations of this theo...

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Julián Posada@posada.website · 7mo ago

With the cover now finalized, I am pleased to announce my forthcoming book: 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐦: 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. Available this October from @ucpress.bsky.social s. 🧵 1/4

Book cover for "Platform Extractivism: Data Work and the People Powering Artificial Intelligence" by Julián Posada. Set against a bright yellow background, three vertical photographic panels at the top depict a crowd with digital bounding boxes over faces, a person coding at a computer, and a dense rack of glowing server cables. The title is in large, bold black text, followed by the red subtitle and the author’s name in blue at the bottom.
AI Ethics & Society@aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 7mo ago

✨ How can model collapse help us make sense of the emergent risks of synthetic data? And how might it perpetuate notions of real data as 'gold standard'? @bnjacobsen.bsky.social will discuss this in his talk on March 18th - sign up ⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/trash-in-t...

Trash In, Trash Out? Synthetic Data and the Politics of Degenerative AI

This talk discusses how phenomena such as model collapse help us make sense of the emergent risks of synthetic data

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Benjamin Jacobsen@bnjacobsen.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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...

ERC SYNDATA PhD Studentship - Study, University of York

The European Research Council funded project, ‘The Ethics of Synthetic Data in the Age of Machine Learning and AI’ (SYNDATA), is now advertising a PhD scholarship to be based in the Department of Soci...

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