Devika Narayan

Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026

Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma

Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026

On May 27, also at Cnam, Devika Narayan (@devikanarayan.bsky.social, University of Bristol) will discuss the material practices of technological acceleration, drawing on a sociotechnical analysis of computing infrastructure and an industrial political economy perspective on the tech sector 🖥️

Omg. They flowered.

A conjunctural approach to global production networks: the case of India’s software services industry Abstract. Global production networks (GPNs) are a ubiquitous mode of industrial organization. This article advances the theorization of GPN formation. By f

In the sept issue!

How to tell supply chain histories.

Specifically, the story of India's software industry.

Postdoc Impact of Computational Infrastructures on Public Institutions and Administration of Justice Postdoc Impact of Computational Infrastructures on Public Institutions and Administration of Justice

Post doc opportunity on computational infrastructures

"How do computational infrastructures expand into sectoral organizations? Are current (digital) policies adequate in responding to their impact on administration of justice?"

careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Po...

No bells and whistles, solid and sensible.

Reading 1980s lit on large technical systems and loving it.

Happy plants + moody Juno

Writing from scratch. Draft zero sort of situation. Can someone remind me how it's done.

I am starting to sense the very real fears of job loss among software developers and data scientists. Bosses talking to team leads, telling the that the upper echelons want to co-pilot their way into smaller dev teams.

Infrastructure, Capitalism, and Dependency in the Digital Age

Back in 🇩🇪 NRW this week. Presenting my work on ‘Big AI’—Platforms, Dependency, & Power, at @unibonn.bsky.social tonight (Mon), & Internationale Club La Redoute w/ @silvertje.bsky.social (Tue). 🔗 www.cassis.uni-bonn.de/en/events/up... & intclub-redoute-bonn.de/event/big-ai.... Please come if around!

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Argh, I know. Especially as I'm not sure when our paths will cross next...

Ohh this looks so great!! fomo for sure...(But that seems to be a mistake in the programme...I'm not going to be there 😕)

mass production of labour process studies ruined braverman.

Found my dream collaborator and convinced him to write the book with me. So that's good.

What's that? More pictures of Juno?

Prodexchange: Digital–industrial economization in Google Search supply chain - Koray Caliskan, Donald MacKenzie, Addie McGowan, 2025 Using Google as a case study, this paper analyzes the online advertising sector's search industry. Arguing that search engines are not engines, it examines...

With presenters Koray Caliskan, Donald MacKenzie, Addie McGowan and responses by @devikanarayan.bsky.social @kylzjarrett.bsky.social and Gillian Tett discussing a recent paper published last week journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Looking forward to this!

Little J.

Happy to be leaving New York so I can get alicia keys out of my brain. It's a real affliction.

Just leaving Detroit after a nine day visit. I loved my stay. What a great town.

Juno content

Poster on multicolored background says early career keynote and has a photo of Devika Narayan, University of Bristol, Speaker, with the title and text: 'Untethered: Scalable Computing and the Acceleration of Industrial Change: This Keynote examines the impact of a highly concentrated tech sector on firm practices across industries. I intend to answer three questions: 1) What is distinctive about computing technologies today? 2) What is the contemporary structure and organisation of corporate computing? 3) How does this configuration of computing relations alter firm practices? My claim is that digital technology and the tech sector intensifies volatility and chaos in capitalist industries through new forms of abstraction, modularity, and outsourcing. New tools and techniques of rapid experimentation speed up not just expansion and growth but also speed up the interruption of established firm practices. Overall, I contribute a theoretical framing of machinic hyper-flexibility and capitalist logics.' With the date, time, and plate listed as Wednesday 3/26 10.10AM - 11.30AM AAG Annual Meeting 430A, Level 4 Huntington Place Hosted by the Economic Geography Specialty Group

💬 Announcing our #AAG2025 EGSG Early Career Keynote lecture, 'Untethered: Scalable Computing and the Acceleration of Industrial Change' to be given by Devika Narayan, with @jamiepeck.bsky.social as discussant.

Hosted by @econgeog.bsky.social
Wednesday 3.26 at 10:10 AM in Detroit!

Oh no. No reward for the hardship 😂 let me see if i rise to the occasion.

...actually, can you pls write about DevOps so I don't have to??

Thank you!! I'll take anything interesting

Omg hahaha I just bought one recently. I haven't mustered up the energy to read a word of it.

Ah no worries...I thought there would be a fair amount. DevOps seems very significant when it comes to software creation, deployment, labor process. This reminds me of an old tweet where you were like CAN SOMEONE DO THIS so I don't have to :(

I thought maybe some sort of essay? Literally anything that isn't written by aws or some such!