'A groundbreaking book.' - Werner Bonefeld

Neither a return to basics nor a new-fangled reconstruction, THE AUTOMATIC FETISH eschews novelty to show once again that Marx rewards careful study.

Funded PhDs at the University of West London! Deadline June 30. If you're interested in researching gender, technology, work, feminist political economy, digital culture, etc, get in touch. We have some amazing doctoral students here.

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This weekend is Tech Transformed - co-run by The Autonomy Institute and CADA 😎

I'm excited to try out a new format of political strategising/ forecasting: using a non-linear storytelling app to plot the next 5 years of UK politics...

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NEW blog: 'We do not yet know what a network can do'

liam concludes his recent series on the history of the internet. In this post he looks towards possible futures and alternative paths yet to be taken.

Read here:
autonomy.work/portfolio/we-d…

NEW 🧵: how Britain became gripped by the worst homelessness crisis in the developed world

Universities are increasingly ranked, unbundled, platformised, re-infrastructured and assetised by research workflow management, edtech and Big Tech companies - new free access short article journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Genocides are good for the start-up nation:

So, here is the promised thread on my forthcoming JEL paper with some pictures etc.
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New job in political theory at Durham!

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Come join me, Chris Finlay, Maria Dimova Cookson, Brian Carey, Jess Begon, Beth Kahn, and Lewis Mates.

Happy to discuss with potential applicants.

Quick reminder Angèle Christin Sophie Bishop ℤ𝕠𝕖 𝔾𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕥 ✨️ and I will be discussing our in-progress books on influencer labor + the creator economy. Given our discussions of the challenges and messiness of book writing, I'm thinking of it as an 'unbook talk'
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The Searchers by Andy Beckett is a tremendous book. Exhaustively researched, insightful, engaging, and even gripping.

The hostile and incurious reviews from ideological opponents in the centrist press are more revealing of their authors’ politics than of the book’s qualities.

Congrats to the new Autonomy Institute!

BREAKING: UCL and King's College London King's College London students have set up their encampment calling for the end of Israel's #genocide in #Gaza and demanding our universities to divest from Israeli institutions and war machine. #CeasefireNOW

We’re almost halfway sold out for Tech Transformed 🔥🔥

If you’re interested in tech that puts people first, grab your tickets now 👇
buytickets.at/cada1/1198455

Good morning! My article on AI value chain, water and resistance is out in journal format (I shared a pre-print before) 🤖🫧✊ I propose an ethical framework based on the voices of communities resisting AI-fuelled environmental harm in Chile rdcu.be/dFVmm

And so much incredible writing across so many platforms. Please read and remember a genuinely brilliant mind lost far too early.
dieangewandte.academia.edu/MarinaVishmidt

Love to Danny and family.

We’re marching! #FreePalestine

New! 2 x full-time PhD studentships exploring the relationship between technology, society, and culture in responsible AI in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, King's College London. Based in Digital Humanities 🐘 @[email protected] in association with Responsible Ai UK
kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy/f…

✨ New journal officially launched! Welcome to Platforms & Society! Read our inaugural editorial and submit your article - or even a multimedia piece! The editors (we are an editorial collective!) are me, Niels van Doorn, Cheryll Soriano, andrea pollio & Julie Yujie Chen journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS

The New Economy never arrived, instead we have regressed towards darker times. Have we already entered the age of techno-feudalism?
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Forthcoming September 3 Verso Books