Ulises Navarro Aguiar
@ulissess.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg. https://ulisesnavarro.com
This essay is an excellent taster, perhaps, for @alirizataskale.bsky.social' forthcoming book on Financial Realities in Speculative Literature and Film. aeon.co/essays/silic...
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Ali Rıza Taşkale@alirizataskale.bsky.social · 3w agoI've just submitted the manuscript of my new book, Fictional Worlds and Financial Realities in Speculative Literature and Film, to Palgrave Macmillan! It reads six works of SF - Gibson, Stross, Robinson, Villeneuve, Hawley, Garland - as a way of seeing how finance colonizes the future. More soon.
Oh no. What a loss. Fleming's work is (and will remain) very important in org studies and beyond.
Armin Beverungen@arminb.bsky.social · last mo.I am really shocked by the news of the passing of Peter Fleming. He was so critical to my generation of org studies / critical management students who had hope for social theory. RIP Peter. Thanks André for your story andrespicer.substack.com/p/there-is-h...
RIP David Cayley. His work for CBC’s Ideas series is unmissable. I always thought he had one of the most fascinating jobs out there. www.davidcayley.com/podcasts Here's a touching tribute by @lmsacasas.bsky.social: theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/friendship...
Friendship Suffices: In Memory of David Cayley
The Convivial Society: Vol. 7, No. 6
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There's so much talk about "future making" these days. So Karl Palmås and I set out to briefly map how this notion has been used in futures research, tracing its cross-disciplinary roots and stakes across sociology, anthropology, design, and organization studies. doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
”But reengineering universities around industrial agendas forgets that contributing to economic growth and social impact are secondary to the fundamental function of the university as a place where knowledge—and more importantly, reason—are contested…”
Yuk Hui @digitalobjects.bsky.social · 5mo agoA short essay for the latest issue of e-flux journal www.e-flux.com/journal/161/...
PhD student position in artistic practice (broadly construed—it includes design practice) at HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design. Apply by 5 August!
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Equator is kicking off the World Cup with an essay from Mexico by the legendary Juan Villoro – on the unequal billing of the three host nations, the “cautious attitude” of fans who fear being deprived of a great public spectacle, and the moments of magic to come
I’ve been thinking about this essay, written in late 2023, quite a lot recently, and especially that Sheila Williams anecdote with which it opens. It took a little longer than I expected, but our labor is being overwhelmed by (null)formation.
The Trash-Text Tsunami
In 2024, The Internet Will Become An Ocean of (Null)formation
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Damon Beres@damonberes.com · 2mo ago“Working on AI text, as an editor, is like trying to operate on a body whose skin, muscles, veins, bones, and organs are all compromised. There’s nothing to leave intact, nowhere to begin.”
”Besides becoming one of the world’s most indebted nations in the world, the number of billionaires in Sweden has grown at an unprecedented rate. During the pandemic alone, they doubled in number.” @artefr.bsky.social
Debt Fever | ARTE.tv Documentary
YouTube video by ARTE.tv Documentary
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The "AI is inevitable" line is a political choice, not a fact. This new AI Resist List documents lawsuits, strikes, and creative pushback from Chile to Congo. Resistance isn't fringe - it's already global.
Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 2mo agoTech Policy Press fellow Petra Molnar highlights the AI Resist List: a global database documenting acts of resistance to the AI industry. From legal challenges and worker organizing to artistic interventions, the project seeks to challenge the “scale at all costs” development of AI.
new piece, Social Media in the Scam Age, for the 10th anniversary of @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social thank you to @zizip.bsky.social for inviting me journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Social Media in the Scam Age - Lana Swartz, 2026
This essay examines scams as a central organizing logic of contemporary social media rather than peripheral criminal activity. Drawing on research in cryptocurr...
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Shockingly, self-regulation of the Swedish forest industry isn't working. Who would've thought? www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
Ulises Navarro Aguiar@ulissess.bsky.social · 2mo agoYeah, it's not looking great. "Old-growth Swedish forests cut down at fast pace" via @srnyheter.bsky.social www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/anci...
Yeah, it's not looking great. "Old-growth Swedish forests cut down at fast pace" via @srnyheter.bsky.social www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/anci...
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar@ulissess.bsky.social · 2mo ago”Researchers found undisturbed primary forests store 83% more carbon per acre than the managed forests that are replacing them, with soil accounting for most of the difference.” sustainability.stanford.edu/news/shockin...
”Researchers found undisturbed primary forests store 83% more carbon per acre than the managed forests that are replacing them, with soil accounting for most of the difference.” sustainability.stanford.edu/news/shockin...
A ‘shocking’ carbon discovery in Sweden’s forests
A new study finds old-growth forests in Sweden store far more carbon than the industrial tree plantations that are rapidly replacing them, with soil accounting for most of the difference. Protecting u...
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Modernism promised a bright future. Now 'shit experiments', launched by tech oligarchs and authoritarian governments, utilize neuroliberalism’s handle on malleable human behaviour. Can anything of social experimentation be salvaged for welfare and basic income needs? Karl Palmås via Glänta
Tech hype isn't just marketing and PR—it's also alarm, paranoia, and propaganda. Fabian Muniesa argues today's hype matches what scholars Adorno and Horkheimer called reason's collapse into fascist madness.
Hype, Paranoia, and the Fascist Propensity in Tech
Tech hype quite visibly matches the traits once identified as the disease of modern reason and its collapse into fascist madness, writes Fabian Muniesa.
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Yes, the widespread buy-in on Silicon Valley AI at European universities is quite baffling to me. There isn’t enough pushback.
Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 3mo ago@karenhao.bsky.social delivering the gospel to literally thousands of people at @re-publica.com in Berlin. Notable how the European public has not really caught up to the strength of the backlash stateside yet. Hao had great stories of the pushback and reimagination of what AI could/should be.
More trouble than previously thought... Thanks @suscrockford.bsky.social @erosamon.bsky.social @aminsamman.bsky.social for brilliant critiques of 'Paranoid Finance'!!! And @busedoyu.bsky.social @allartmarkets.bsky.social @jcultecon.bsky.social for setting this up!!! doi.org/10.1080/1753...
More trouble than previously thought
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Illich looking back on CIDOC as 'the inverse of a university.'
‘Mexico City seeks new rent controls in gentrification wave’ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Mexico City seeks new rent controls in gentrification wave
Shortage of affordable homes and protests over US immigrants prompt policy response
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The Asset Class by Hettie O’Brien review – private equity is coming for us all
The Asset Class by Hettie O’Brien review – private equity is coming for us all
A fascinating, infuriating, immaculately researched account of how wealth management giants snap up the services upon which rely to extract eye-watering profits
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Not to mention his involvement with RAND.
Ulises Navarro Aguiar@ulissess.bsky.social · 4mo agoHerbert Simon appraising Bruno Latour as "soft, to the point of mushiness" and his work as "a sort of generalized Marxism" is quite noteworthy (albeit not that surprising considering the former's computationalist views of knowledge and the social).
Herbert Simon appraising Bruno Latour as "soft, to the point of mushiness" and his work as "a sort of generalized Marxism" is quite noteworthy (albeit not that surprising considering the former's computationalist views of knowledge and the social).
Brad Bolman@brad.bolman.com · 4mo agoIn the early 1990s, Bruno Latour was not hired at the Institute for Advanced Study. I wrote an article about that decision and what it reveals about the science wars and the history of science studies, now live @histsocialscience.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/985884
This caalls for this evergreen quote From the 1980s Handbook of systems analysis. "Then" is 1957.
![Our computer capabilities have increased at least a hundred fold since then [then = 1957] and we can do better, but not a great deal better; we are not calculation-limited, we are understanding limited.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g6b7iqsxruzawdag6resnxva/bafkreicjgz2usm6qms3uqpafajutt56k5rh5xceenzr5yfscsewtgszpxm)
This is a helpful review of Jäger’s Hyperpolitics by @alirizataskale.bsky.social
Ali Rıza Taşkale@alirizataskale.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe repoliticised subject of the 2020s - passionately engaged, perpetually outraged, yet incapable of transformation - isn’t evidence that post-politics is over. It’s evidence that post-politics continues under new subjective conditions. My review of Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics is now out in EJST.
Bruno-stagecraft-is-essential-to-tehcnoscience-Latour nods knowingly in some after-life next to his pal, Louis Pasteur
Fun@funkelly.bsky.social · 4mo agothe Artemis crew took photography classes so they could take the best photos possible up there 😭
How did people imagine UNAM's Ciudad Universitaria in Mexico City before it was built? I took a dive into the archive of unbuilt plans for CU and wrote about them in the Journal of Urban History. Check out "Imagining University City" (open access!): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
