A good day for the Derrideans

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Marco Rubio: Even as we defeated the institution of Soviet communism, we did not triumph over the spirit of Marx. That spirit of Marx, it lives.

In the first few hours after the great email god had died, the academics didn't know what to do. Some went mad in the absence of a constant influx of communication. Others returned to the land.

Pleased to see that my latest article has now been published in Theory, Culture and Society. In it I use the figure of the Human-as-Sensor to critically theorise how human sensing is being instrumentalised within digital infrastructures. Hope it does some work journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Pleased to see that my latest article has now been published in Theory, Culture and Society. In it I use the figure of the Human-as-Sensor to critically theorise how human sensing is being instrumentalised within digital infrastructures. Hope it does some work journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Lazzarato on the centrality of Palestine to the current uprisings across Europe

Ill Will@illwill.bsky.social · 2w ago

New piece by Maurizio Lazzarato on the October wave of uprisings as a shift from state wars to class war. illwill.com/class-war

Ghost in the Machine is a film that traces artificial intelligence back to its roots in eugenics-era statistics. Memorial University will be hosting a free screening on November 10th, followed by a discussion around AI and the film. 📍 A-1043, Memorial University 🗓 Tue 10 Nov · 8:45 PM NST

Feeling equal parts excited and terrified to be sharing some early thoughts on a newish project at the @histmat.bsky.social conference on Sunday. How has the worker become a sensor within capitalism's computational infrastructures? How is sensing stabilised, hierarchized and integrated as labour?

This is abuser behavior. Get this shit out of our schools now.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2w ago

Google is now threatening America's schools, saying they will turn off their core search functions if schools choose to entirely block AI. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/u...

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Eniko Fox@enikofox.com · 2w ago

if you're a slopper you're complicit in this shit futurism.com/artificial-i...

As long as a percentage number signalling economic growth goes up, it appears it won't matter what our lives, our planet, or our collective futures look like.

Adam Vaughan@adamvaughan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Interesting from BBC: "Four planned "hyperscale" data centres - including three in the south of England - are already considering using gas-fired power to meet their electricity needs, creating more CO2 than the cities of Manchester, Liverpool and Southampton combined." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Interesting from BBC: "Four planned "hyperscale" data centres - including three in the south of England - are already considering using gas-fired power to meet their electricity needs, creating more CO2 than the cities of Manchester, Liverpool and Southampton combined." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

AI data centres could undermine UK's net zero goals

Four planned "hyperscale" data centres consider using gas-fired power for their electricity needs.

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I think the most important lessons to be learned from Exército do Lula is how the logics of social media platforms *can be* strategically undermined by coordination and rallying around a handful of major talking points, alongside one simple, but crucial rule: do NOT engage with far-right accounts.

CNN@cnn.com · 2w ago

From coordinated social media campaigns to reclaiming national symbols, the online strategy mobilized many to vote for Lula, in an effort that experts say offers a striking example of how the Brazilian left learned to fight the right on its turf. https://cnn.it/48sYbEp

JOB: two-year postdoc in STS with project States of Anxiety: Expertise and Activism in Digital and Ecological Environments, Zurich, Switzerland jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

Postdoctoral Position in Science, Technology and Society (STS)

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More must-read material from @edzitron.com exposing the dumping of Anthropic on public markets, where retail investors with index-trackers would be left holding the bag as the bubble bursts

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 3w ago

Free newsletter: Anthropic’s S-1 uses an anomalous quarter to con investors into becoming its exit liquidity, and explicitly states that its costs will grow aggressively as margins decline. Its $430bn in non-cancellable contracts are yet to start hitting. www.wheresyoured.at/exit-liquidi...

“Race realist” Nathan Cofnas should not be speaking at Oriel College - don’t fall for the fraudulent fig leaf of “free speech” - this is hate speech driven by a racist manifesto you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Protect Black Students - Stop Nathan Cofnas speaking at Oxford University

Cofnas is not simply a critic of diversity policy. He is a self-described “race realist” who argues that genes contribute to racial group differences in intelligence. Contemporary genetics has rejecte...

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Canny lads

Phil Burton-Cartledge@philbc3.bsky.social · 2w ago

In this climate, their choices were very important. Good on the pair of them.

Good to see the neoliberal consensus has been completely shattered by the latest budget. I was surprised to see that such an undoing can be achieved by tinkering around the edges.

One more week to go – if you're in, or adjacent to DH and have been trying to wrap your head around AI and what it means for the field, send us your thoughts!

Matthew Kirschenbaum@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 2mo ago

CFP: Generative Digital Humanities, a volume on AI and DH in the long-running Minnesota Debates in DH book series. To be co-edited by @zentralwerkstatt.org, @laurenfklein.bsky.social, @lnakamura.bsky.social, and myself. Deadline Nov. 1. Please share widely! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-gen...

‘Advanced technological tools give murder an air of scientific legitimacy. They allow the Israeli army to claim that it goes to great lengths to distinguish between combatants and civilians and to reduce the number of civilians killed.’ Eyal Weizman on 𝘕𝘈𝘡𝘈, online now www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Eyal Weizman · Necro-Economics: Death by Algorithm

Gaza has been experiencing an old-fashioned scorched-earth campaign reminiscent of the Nakba of 1948 and no different...

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"This could be mistaken for parody, really. It’s an effort to enshrine into law a standard in which AI models are explicitly legally permitted to carry the risk of killing dozens of people at a time and cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damages without penalty."

Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · 3w ago

Anthropic is trying to write its own federal AI regulation law. The major AI firms have all issued feeble proposals for how their AI will serve the public, in anticipation of their pending IPOs. It's all a reminder that we cannot, any under circumstances, let AI firms govern the future.

Join us at Birkbeck! We’re recruiting for a Lecturer in Sociology. It’s a permanent research and teaching post. Looking for someone with experience and interests in mixed methods, science and society, and work-related learning. Deadline 5 November. Please share! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Always 100s of millions waiting for hard bastard techno-cosplay, never any for addressing the realities of life under capitalism.

Gav Maclean@gavmaclean.bsky.social · 3w ago

give me fucking strength

Out on 8. December with @dukepress.bsky.social! 'The Indigenous Anti-Colonial: A Palestinian Resistance Tradition and a World Beyond Settler Colonialism' by Linda Tabar, University of Sussex

Quick feedback from the march yesterday in Toulouse. Gassed as of the start, police were super charged even before things got rolling. Then, the march went pretty well. Massive. Never seen one that big in my town. Police gassed regurlarly but ppl kept on moving. Lot's of youth, Fun. Then...

The Tenderloin plays such an important role in the economic and symbolic logic of American tech culture

Serife (Sherry) Wong@serife.bsky.social · last mo.

Contempt is the emotion underlying AI culture. This thinking is not an anomaly but a signal of the sick perspective shaping political realities. It is a condition of belonging in tech culture to see & sort everyone else as the Tenderloin. Tech necropolitics. brokeassstuart.com/p/y-combinat...

"The growing mobility of capital increasingly allowed it to avoid making concessions that might have supported legitimation, while the marginalization of parties, elections...weakened the state’s capacity to secure popular consent for accumulation." nonsite.org/triumph-of-c...

Triumph of Capital, Crisis of Democracy

We argue that Trumpism arose from a political and social crisis generated by the success of accumulation. This crisis resulted not from the decline of capitalism or the exhaustion of accumulation b…

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Right so the war against social science. Yes it’s ideological. It’s also a termination letter from the state saying it no longer needs legitimation. that’s the public crisis — ask yourself why it doesn’t need legitimacy.

It is with immense sadness and grief that we share the news of the death of our comrade, friend and long-standing member of the Historical Materialism Editorial Board Peter D. Thomas. We are still processing the news but wrote a short text in tribute to his life and work.

Remembering Peter D. Thomas (1973–2026) - Historical Materialism

It is with immense sadness and grief that we share the news of the death of our comrade, friend and long-standing member of the Historical Materialism Editorial Board Peter D. Thomas. Peter passed awa...

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Announcing our critical philosophy of AI seminars for 2026-2027: ‘Yet Another Machine For Producing Gods’ cpct.uk/2026-2027/ Each week pits a philosophical text and a technical document against each other to interrogate presuppositions and provoke radical reflections.

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‘Yet Another Machine For Producing Gods’ Image: UBahn station in Essen, Germany, artwork by anonymous students at the Hochschule der bildenden Künste, 2026 Time: Wednesdays, 4:00-6:00 p…

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