Josh Scannell
@frannyrecounts.bsky.social
I teach Media Studies at The New School. I write about computational technologies, carceral power, and media philosophy. New book, The Carceral Surround: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921255/the-carceral-surround/
Very excited to re-up @atg-dbp.bsky.social and my joint book release event , now with a beautiful flyer! We're excited to be in conversation with @dominicpettman.bsky.social about our work. If you're in or near NYC please come! tinyurl.com/5k62ynfw @uminnpress.bsky.social @thenewschool.bsky.social
I fear we really gotta develop that transfeminine theory of the state because gender, state-making, and technology is just so in our faces.
@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄🟫@amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 5mo ago“Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp states ‘AI will undermine the influence of highly educated, often female voters and give it to working class men. We have feminine energy running our cities and our courts,’ he complained.”
I'm doing an informal session with students on Friday and I love this flyer they came up with
this year alone: UIC paid $11.6M to Volt AI for surveillance data analysis, $4.4M to Allied Universal Security ON TOP of UIC PD budget, over $100K on flock cameras while enforcing hiring freezes+stonewalling on faculty contracts everywhere the same grift: $ for AI + cops, NO$ for education
The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.“Over the summer, Rutgers University quietly paid at least $1.5 million for a powerful surveillance analytics system that can recognize faces, read license plates and identify objects…”
Very excited to re-up @atg-dbp.bsky.social and my joint book release event , now with a beautiful flyer! We're excited to be in conversation with @dominicpettman.bsky.social about our work. If you're in or near NYC please come! tinyurl.com/5k62ynfw @uminnpress.bsky.social @thenewschool.bsky.social
What a blech stupid take on the movie. No, you are just a terrible analyst and thinker. theconversation.com/an-overlooke...
An overlooked sci-fi movie shows how disruption by AI could be positive for society
The message in the film Annihilation is that disruption by AI needn’t be disastrous for humanity.
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After the ICE shooting of Oscar Belgal, immigrants in Marble Hill say their normally tranquil community is now plagued by paranoia, anger and fear. (Via @DocumentedNY)
ICE Shooting Sparks Fear, Outrage in Marble Hill’s Immigrant Community
After the ICE shooting of Oscar Belgal, immigrants in Marble Hill say their normally tranquil community is now plagued by paranoia, anger and fear.
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just realized that "AI safety" is the pointless-yet-all-consuming religious sectarianism our collapsing empire vibe had been missing
Our splash productivity simply misaligned with our projected outcomes. If we understood why this happened we would have done something about it but we’re trying to figure it out.
Andy Kostka@afkostka.bsky.social · 3w agoAmong those let go was the Orioles employee who played the role of Mr. Splash, the mascot-like figure who sprayed water on fans in the outfield at Camden Yards, per sources, as @Britt_Ghiroli reported last night. www.thebanner.com/sports/oriol...
I just really hate this so much
Andy Kostka@afkostka.bsky.social · 3w agoAmong those let go was the Orioles employee who played the role of Mr. Splash, the mascot-like figure who sprayed water on fans in the outfield at Camden Yards, per sources, as @Britt_Ghiroli reported last night. www.thebanner.com/sports/oriol...
Cool good job Mike love what you’ve done with the place
Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene@dmgreene.bsky.social · 3w agoMan they laid off the mascot AND Mr splash???
Forgot to include @dominicpettman.bsky.social!
Josh Scannell@frannyrecounts.bsky.social · 3w agoJoint book release event for The Carceral Surround and David Bering Porter's Undead Labor is happening 10/27! Dominic Pettman will be discussing. Come join us in NYC! Register at the link @atg-dbp.bsky.social @thenewschool.bsky.social event.newschool.edu/bookreleasej...
"By threatening us w the violent fantasies of an unsurveilled world, [Flock] is pushing something that strikes me as the antithesis of safety: a community ethic founded on suspicion, a closely monitored world with no exit,” writes @bradybricknerwood.bsky.social. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
The company, which has a hundred and thirty thousand cameras monitoring the streets of the U.S., frames privacy as a worthwhile trade-off for safety and security, echoing the language of the post-9/11...
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Joint book release event for The Carceral Surround and David Bering Porter's Undead Labor is happening 10/27! Dominic Pettman will be discussing. Come join us in NYC! Register at the link @atg-dbp.bsky.social @thenewschool.bsky.social event.newschool.edu/bookreleasej...
Book Release: Josh Scannell's The Carceral Surround and David Bering-Porter's Undead Labor
Please join Parsons Media Studies and Eugene Lang Culture and Media in celebrating the release of R. Joshua Scannell and David Bering-Porter’s highly anticipated new books, The Carceral Surround and U...
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this is actually what I see as the central challenge of AI: not encountering intelligences comparable to our own, but the development of toolmaking processes/approaches that are fundamentally different than the ones that have for so long defined us as a species... the weirdening of toolmaking
My review of Informatics of Domination is up on Catalyst's website. The book is fantastic and writing this was fun. When states and capital fail, we remain. Imagine that. @jsrhee.bsky.social @melodyjue.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social catalystjournal.org/index.php/ca...
View of Book Review | Informatics of Domination, edited by Zach Blas, Melody Jue, and Jennifer Rhee (Duke University Press, 2025)
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With the book’s release, I want to give a brief overview and outline a few of the key arguments. I’d include links to contemporary events but there are too many connections. The worst part of writing about race, computation, and police power is that it is always timely.
University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress.bsky.social · 4w agoToday's nonfiction release reveals how policing is less about managing crime than about governing possibility. "At once an expansive study of the framework of policing and an indictment of its logics." —Simone Browne R. Joshua Scannell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lS9... @frannyrecounts.bsky.social
It's alive! I'll do a series of posts on the book soon. For now, my absolute deepest thanks to everyone who lit the way and walked with me on the 11-year trek to make this real. There is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons. @uminnpress.bsky.social @thenewschool.bsky.social
Leah Pennywark@lpennywark.bsky.social · 4w agoTHE CARCERAL SURROUND, by R. Joshua Scannell @frannyrecounts.bsky.social, is out today! It "offers new insight into racial capitalism and its mechanisms, and, importantly, its undoing." —Simone Browne www.upress.umn.edu/978151792125...
This follows up a recent interview that Alena Rivas and I had @uminnpress.bsky.social about the book here: tinyurl.com/yv6cvpky
R. Joshua Scannell's THE CARCERAL SURROUND confronts digital policing and power
Author R. Joshua Scannell breaks down his new book The Carceral Surround: what it is, why it matters, and what he hopes readers take away from it. Description: As law enforcement agencies deploy increasingly advanced technologies to suppress dissent, hunt migrants, and target marginalized communities, The Carceral Surround offers a powerful new theory of police and prison power in the digital age. Demonstrating that understanding digital policing requires confronting the political and racial logics that sustain police power, R. Joshua Scannell presents a rare hybrid of critique and refusal that imagines pathways for collective resistance. For more information on The Carceral Surround, visit the book's web page: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921255/the-carceral-surround/
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Josh Scannell@frannyrecounts.bsky.social · last mo.New interview with @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social on #TheCarceralSurround @uminnpress.bsky.social is up! tinyurl.com/2k3bw2c5
In the lead-up to release, we've published an adapted excerpt with @literaryhub.bsky.social. Check it out here: lithub.com/how-technolo...
How Technology-Assisted Surveillance Promotes Racial Bias in Policing
Policing and incarceration in the twenty-first century are not wholly human practices. The strategies, tactics, and encounters that organize the carceral state are developed and prosecuted in colla…
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Josh Scannell@frannyrecounts.bsky.social · last mo.My new book #TheCarceralSurround is coming out on @uminnpress.bsky.social in two weeks! You can find it here: tinyurl.com/566vf8ax
My new book #TheCarceralSurround is coming out on @uminnpress.bsky.social in two weeks! You can find it here: tinyurl.com/566vf8ax
The Carceral Surround
How digital technologies entrench state power—and a new vision for resistanceAs law enforcement agencies deploy increasingly advanced technologies to suppr...
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