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Very proud of my student Aurélie Petit for her work on this. Congratulations Aurélie!!

Finished.

Congratulations Aurélie!!!

Thanks Matthew!! And def agree

There’s been some good work done (Kate Eichorn, @msteinbrg.bsky.social among others), but one of our aesthetic categories badly in need of theorizing right now is “content.” The opposite of “slop” is not a ruined abby overlooking the Lake District.

How is it that Michael Mann’s Miami Vice is considered a failure when it’s a masterpiece?! The digital grain is just sublime

I ended up on swifty TikTok and the comments are absolutely killing me. "9th grade slam poetry", [a photo of boiled chicken], "album for cop wives", "If Taylor wrote this that's bad, if ChatGPT wrote this that's worse, and if Travis wrote this I'm actually kind of proud of him".

Congratulations!!!

So glad you liked it too. It is full of good ideas and I like the sincerity too

The Maybe

How is AI changing the nature of scams? @lanalanalana.bsky.social & @alicetiara.bsky.social spoke to @alixdunn.com on @themaybe.org to explain how AI automates & scales the work already being done in massive, exploitative “cybercrime compounds” around the world. www.themaybe.org/podcast/gotc...

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Boredom is an underrated affect as an impulse for critical work. Jeroen de Kloet is not afraid to say he's bored @jeroendekloet.bsky.social and this is a good thing! Take a read of his important and personal call to revisit creativity, resilience, and else:

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Platform Societies This new Palgrave series recognises the need for a book series dedicated to critical and cutting-edge research on digital platforms’ potential and power to ...

Anyone writing a book on platforms right now, there's new series for you! Edited by some of the finest people (and editors!) in platform studies, consider publishing with Platform Societies:
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A longish thread to announce that the Themed Issue "Digital Platform Economies: Value from Data?" is now fully available online
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I’m excited this venue for publishing exists, and Adrian Athique is hands down the best editor I’ve worked with - writer too I should add

Platform Societies This new Palgrave series recognises the need for a book series dedicated to critical and cutting-edge research on digital platforms’ potential and power to ...

Anyone writing a book on platforms right now, there's new series for you! Edited by some of the finest people (and editors!) in platform studies, consider publishing with Platform Societies:
link.springer.com/series/60334

If you want to ignore the news for a moment and read something whip smart that teaches you about Alipay’s global interoperability, allowing Kakao users to pay in Japan and much else - read this 👇

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Constructivist economic geographies - Rachel Phillips, Chris Meulbroek, Jamie Peck, 2025 The paper makes a case for explicitly constructivist approaches and projects in economic geography. Constructivism names and problematizes the relationship betw...

Our pitch for constructivist economic geographies - Rachel Phillips, Chris Meulbroek, Jamie Peck, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

Geez, Canada, what's your problem? Trump's ambassador pretends he doesn't understand why our neighbors are being so 'mean and nasty'

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Thanks for tagging me Niels definitely very interested in this!

I am very pleased to see this super insightful piece by @jingwangnyu.bsky.social out in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social! It examines how the “productization of APIs allows Alipay+ to extend its platform logic into global financial infrastructures.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/2976...

Actually very uncomplicated. Prices rise, jobs fall, all due to the tariff bonanza. The only complicated thing about it is the guy responsible is not consistent in his TACO

Yes that’s a good summary

*Woman not women - apologies for the typo!

Reading heterotopian spaces in Murata Sayaka’s Convenience Store Woman Murata Sayaka’s Convenience Store Woman (Konbini ningen, 2016) portrays Keiko, an unmarried, childless thirty-six-year-old woman and long-time convenience store employee. Aware that her behavior an...

Readers of Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Women rejoice, there's a compelling new piece interpreting the novel! Linda Flores also gives us what might be the best translation of the title - Homo convenience.

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How true that is!

Or maybe not having a fully functional health care system!

A serious and sensitive issue is having massive potholes in the streets that cause accidents - not having people praying in the streets

Convened here are @dbyler.bsky.social, @ohalpern.bsky.social, @arminb.bsky.social @melhogan.bsky.social Steven Gonzalez Monserrate, Tung-Hui Hu @susannapaasonen.bsky.social Neta Alexander, Rahul Mukherjee @andretwp.bsky.social Tomasz Hollonek & @mayameme.bsky.social. Lots to think on.