Michael Hardt and Sandro Mezzadra interviewed me for Portolan on the "theories of automation" in the age of AI and the question of political organisation beyond AI. I asked them a few difficult questions too! portolan-journal.org?post=the-aut...

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Machine, Organism and Language: A Comparative Epistemology of AI Models. My new essay for AI & Society with a delirious diagram to trace such a complex genealogy. Proudly propelled by @erc-aimodels.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s001...

Machine, organism and language: a comparative epistemology of AI models - AI & SOCIETY

Inspired by Ernst Cassirer and Michel Foucault, this essay proposes a comparative epistemology of three paradigms central to the making of modern science, the humanities, and more recently AI: machine, organism, and language. These paradigms have influenced one another and recombined into complex analogies. Whereas the philosophy of science has often emphasised the organism-machine analogy from early modern mechanicism to cybernetics, this essay extends the inquiry to the language-machine analogy of late modernity, which runs from the telegraph and the Turing machine to information theory and Large Language Models. The rise of AI is thus framed as the confluence of these three paradigms, read not from an internalist perspective but from an externalist one, as mirrors of the social order. Against the dominant view of AI as a purely mathematical achievement or an imitation of biological intelligence, the essay argues that what AI systems automate are the relational structures sedimented in human cooperation, the division of labour, and culture at large—making AI, in effect, a model of the social manifold.

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e-flux special issue 162 is out now! Operativism: Labor, Automation, Agitation www.e-flux.com/journal/162 Edited by Elena Vogman and Matteo Pasquinelli

e-flux Journal #162 April 2026 - e-flux

with contributions by Elena Vogman, Matteo Pasquinelli, Harun Farocki, Tom Holert, Olexii Kuchanskyi, Alla Vronskaya, Aleksei Gastev, Evgenii Petrov, Aleksandra Selivanova, Devin Fore, Kalindi Vora, N...

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"Overaccumulating AI: rationale, faultlines, and politics". My intervention at the World Algorithm Conference early february in Venice. Thanks to @mttpsq.bsky.social, @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social and others for this wonderful event. youtu.be/K_IJ_LPg0aU?...

Cédric Durand (University of Geneva) - Overaccumulating AI: rationale, faultlines, and politics

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Erhellender Austausch von @cominsitu.bsky.social mit @mttpsq.bsky.social, @annanosthoff.bsky.social, @bildoperationen.bsky.social und @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social über den Stand der und die Notwendigkeit von Kritik an AI - @ktbberlin.bsky.social.

Save the Date - Our socialization project has invited Matteo Pasquinelli, Anna-Verena Nosthoff, Roland Meyer & Rainer Mühlhoff to discuss critical perspectives on AI on Monday, February 16th. More information: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/critiq...

Our symposyum 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝘼𝙡𝙜𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙢: 𝙆𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙡𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙋𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝙊𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧 will take place on 2-3 February 2026. The 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 is now online: www.unive.it/worldalgorithm 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀: Grégoire Chamayou, Ben Tarnoff, Moira Weigel, Cédric Durand and Cecilia Rikap.

Thanks to our planetary spiritual guides Xiang Zairong and Elena Vogman I will land again in Shanghai and then off soon to Duke Kunshan University to learn more about knowledge politics in between China and the West. ah.dukekunshan.edu.cn/event/toward...

Towards Trans-Systemic AI: Knowledge and Social Order between China and the West - Arts & Humanities

AI models have left their infancy as techniques of pattern recognition and, over the span of a decade, have become vast representations of entire cultural and

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Vector for Workers: Models of Automation and Autonomy in the Long AI Century hdl.handle.net/10278/5099627 [preprint] Deutscher Memorial Prize Lecture - XXII Historical Materialism Conference - 7 November 2025, SOAS University of London In memoriam Paolo Virno (1952-2025)

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"World Collapse and the Limits of AI Extractivism": Matteo Pasquinelli with Jonathan Beller and Brian Kuan Wood  - Events - e-flux

A conversation between Matteo Pasquinelli, Jonathan Beller, and Brian Kuan Wood on world model collapse and the limits of AI extractivism.

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‘Who’s Afraid of AI?’: U of T event asks what kind of AI future we want

The rapid advance of artificial intelligence has so far been met with a mix of optimism and fear – but relatively little insight into what this potentially smarter-than-us technology actually means fo...

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Join us October 17 & 18 for the VLC Forum 2025: Matter of Intelligence, presented @thenewschool.bsky.social & online! The VLC Forum 2025 convenes interdisciplinary cultural thinkers around the subject of intelligence. Programming is free and open to the public www.veralistcenter.org/events/vlc-f...

Dear all, I will embark on a tour of NYC, Washington, and Toronto btw October 14-27... landing first for the lecture at the Vera List Center. Drop a line if around! www.veralistcenter.org/events/vlc-f...

Vera List Center Forum 2025: Matter of Intelligence | Vera List Center

Oct 17–Oct 18, 2025

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Arabic translation of the Eye of the Master: A Social History of AI (Verso Books) out now thanks to Page Seven!

"There exists a considerable misunderstanding about cybernetics' scientific aspirations. In reality, cybernetics was not a science but a school of engineering in drag." - @mttpsq.bsky.social (from his fascinating book The Eye of the Master)

Estoy muy feliz de ver la traducción al español de mi libro @versobooks.bsky.social gracias al Fondo de Cultura Económica Chile "El ojo del amo. Una historia social de la inteligencia artificial"

… quite enjoyed this conference ‘Chat Token Vector’ 🤖🧮↗️ … with @mttpsq.bsky.social, @hannesbajohr.de, @atg-dbp.bsky.social and many others.

The final program of our symposium @erc-aimodels.bsky.social is out! Please share: 👉 unive.it/chat-token-vector

Oggi a Venezia presentiamo la nuova edizione de Il Capitale alle ore 17 presso l'Aula Padoan dell'Università Ca' Foscari (campazzo San Sebastian, Dorsoduro 1686). In dialogo con Roberto Fineschi, Giorgio Cesarale, Emanuele Lepore e Matteo Pasquinelli. www.einaudi.it/appuntamenti...

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Roberto Fineschi, <strong>Venezia</strong> - Il curatore presenta la nuova edizione del libro I de <a href="https://www.einaudi.it/catalogo-libri/scienze-sociali/il-capitale-karl-marx-9788806253622/">...

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Cameo of Ca' Foscari for the New York Times trolling superintelligence fantasies... www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/t...

Silicon Valley’s Elusive Fantasy of a Computer as Smart as You

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In the Name of Efficiency, the Time of Monsters has Arrived Ron Salaj for @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...

In the Name of Efficiency, the Time of Monsters has Arrived

The great promise of modernity has always been efficiency. From Charles Babbage’s dream of mechanical calculation to the algorithmic optimization of labor in today’s AI-driven workplaces, efficiency i...

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Grazie @internazionale.it per recensire Nell'occhio dell'algoritmo in uscita il 16 maggio per Carocci traducendo il buon @bentarnoff.com @nybooks.com 

Alla scoperta del lavoro dell’intelligenza artificiale Ben Tarnoff www.internazionale.it/magazine/ben...

Alla scoperta del lavoro dell’intelligenza artificiale

Il 2022 non era cominciato bene per l’industria tecnologica. Dopo una pandemia particolarmente redditizia, il settore aveva registrato una delle peggiori contrazioni di… Leggi

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Steam didn’t trigger the Industrial Revolution. The growing complexity of labour demanded steam. Just like today, it's not AI that's changing work—it's work that's calling AI into being. From #TheEyeOfTheMaster by @mttpsq.bsky.social

The list of speakers of our symposium Chat Token Vector is out! unive.it/chat-token-v... We received solid and dense papers. Prepare nootropics and see you June 11-13 in Venice. Image: Joachim Becher, Pro notitia linguarum universali, 1661.

Esce finalmente per Carocci l’edizione italiana di The Eye of the Master... quasi undici anni dopo il primo sketch del progetto (ho riscoperto una nota del 2014!). Si offre copia gratuita a docenti. PM here.

Come l’IA (non) trasforma il lavoro Paolo Ruta per Il Tascabile www.iltascabile.com/societa/come...

Come l’IA (non) trasforma il lavoro

Una riflessione sull’intelligenza artificiale a partire da The Eye of the Master di Matteo Pasquinelli.

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CHAT TOKEN VECTOR Questioning Models of Language and Neo-Structuralism in AI 11-13 June 2025, Venice Confirmed speakers: Lydia Liu, Hannes Bajohr, Gianni Gastaldi, Leonardo Impett, Fabian Offert a.o. Call for Papers: deadline April 1 unive.it/chat-token-vector

Chat Token Vector: Home

Chat Token Vector - Home

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“The division of labor was never just about efficiency; it was also about control.” — @bentarnoff.com on AI and the history of anti-labor technologies

The Labor Theory of AI | Ben Tarnoff

Artificial intelligence may be the first attempt to automate and discipline human labor that even its creators don’t fully comprehend.

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The labour theory of AI keeps on working and provoking... The eye of Ben Tarnoff on the Eye of the Master (Verso Books) for the New York Review of Book. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

The Labor Theory of AI | Ben Tarnoff

Artificial intelligence may be the first attempt to automate and discipline human labor that even its creators don’t fully comprehend.

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We are happy to announce a lecture held by Tommaso Guariento, post-doc researcher in the project ERC AImodels. Please note that the event will be in Italian and in-person, on Thursday 6th March 2025 at 5:30 pm, Aula 3 Rio Nuovo, Ca' Foscari University, Venice.