Philipp Seuferling

Tech, Stones, and Stories: How the Violence of Border Tech is a Historical Matter - Public Books Border technologies live within loops of failure → crisis → fix → failure → crisis → fix, eternally to be tested. It will work, promise! Just wait for one more iteration

For our series on the cybernetic border, @philippseuferling.bsky.social reads Ivan Chaar López alongside the writings of Walter Benjamin.

“Together, they provide urgent lessons to understand not only how the past shapes today’s deadly borders.”

Borders Are War by Other Means - Public Books The border today is and is made through sociotechnical arrangements centering data in the regulation of racial difference.

New at PB: Each day this week, we’re publishing a series on the cybernetic border, which contributions from Iván Chaar López, @philippseuferling.bsky.social, @kalindivora.bsky.social, and @gleemie.bsky.social.

Tech, Stones, and Stories: How the Violence of Border Tech is a Historical Matter - Public Books Border technologies live within loops of failure → crisis → fix → failure → crisis → fix, eternally to be tested. It will work, promise! Just wait for one more iteration

As part of our series on "The Cybernetic Border," @philippseuferling.bsky.social outlines 3 ideas that history debunks: 1) that border technologies are neutral; 2) that technology equals progress; and 3) that technology offers solutions to crises.

Tech, Stones, and Stories: How the Violence of Border Tech is a Historical Matter - Public Books Border technologies live within loops of failure → crisis → fix → failure → crisis → fix, eternally to be tested. It will work, promise! Just wait for one more iteration

Honoured to contribute to a series of essays engaging with Iván Chaar López' brilliant "The Cybernetic Border" (Duke, 2024) - look out for more essays this week! #borders #tech #history #STS #noborders
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Migrant Futures Postdoctoral Fellowships Goldsmiths is pleased to announce the call for two Migrant Futures Postdoctoral Fellowships, part of a major grant from the Oak Foundation to establish the Migrant Futures Institute at Goldsmiths.

📣 2 x postdoc opportunities @ the Migrant Futures Institute, Goldsmiths, U of London. 1st award open to all subjects for applicants who are migrants / refugees; 2nd award needs to focus on migration. Please read eligibility criteria carefully, deadline 18 August: www.gold.ac.uk/research/cen...

Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with Europol Under the banner of fighting migrant smuggling, Frontex has collected, and unlawfully siphoned to Europol, personal data for years—quietly drawing thousands of migrants, as well as EU citizens aiding ...

For years, human rights advocates have warned of the criminalisation of migrants & activists at Europe’s borders.
With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet.
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Hybrid workshop LSE, WG1 “Inventory” - DATAMIG Open Call for Contributions How to know technology and migration otherwise: engaging with feminist and decolonial epistemologies Hybrid workshop organised by the COST action “DATAMIG”, Working Group 1...

Apply, apply! Join us in London in Sep for the workshop "How to know #technology and #migration otherwise: engaging with #feminist and #decolonial #epistemologies" organised through the COST action DATAMIG! Deadline 15/6, travel funding available!
@lsemedia.bsky.social

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YouTube video by LSE The power of data: ethics, politics, and public interest | LSE Event

Last week, DSI and the Department of Media and Communications (@lsemedia.bsky.social) hosted a talk on data science's role in public interest – from access to info to democracy.

Speakers included Chris Wiggins, @abpowell.bsky.social and Erin Young.

Watch here▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLIV...

The UK’s AI Borders: Anduril’s Autonomous Surveillance Towers - Migrants' Rights Network Anduril Autonomous Surveillance Towers (ASTs) are scanning the Channel for people seeking safety on the South-East Coast of England.

It's time to #StopBorderApartheid

New research 📢 the UK's AI Borders: Anduril's Autonomous Surveillance Towers (ASTs). We're pleased to be hosting new research by @samuelstorey.bsky.social into the use of Maritime Sentry Towers on the UK border: buff.ly/DcCfaOf

#AI #Anduril #HostileEnvironment

Poisoned Chalice: Is Frontex Director’s Clean-Up Operation Doomed to Failure? Dutch former gendarmerie commander Hans Leijtens took the reins of Frontex with a vow to renew the EU border agency’s commitment to the rights of migrants. With Europe’s leaders taking a hard line on ...

In this investigation for Balkan Insight, we review the human rights record of @frontex.bsky.social's director Hans Leijtens-two years after he vowed to end the agency's complicity in violent pushbacks. Amidst lawlessness at Europe's borders, is he fighting a losing battle?
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Envisaging Dataist Modernity Who gets to imagine datafied visions of the future city (region) and why is it important to look at universities as powerful urban stakeholders?

Very excited to see my PhD dissertation published! I asked who gets to imagine Edinburgh’s future. I spoke with political leaders, tech entrepreneurs and higher education officials responsible for delivering the Edinburgh City Region Deal. Open access link ⬇️

How the far right weaponizes victimhood From Nigel Farage’s claims about two-tier policing, to Elon Musk’s weaponization of the grooming gangs scandal, the far right portrays itself as a victim or as on the side of victims as…

From Nigel Farage's claims about two-tier policing, to Elon Musk’s weaponisation of the grooming gangs scandal, @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social examines how the right portrays itself as a victim/on the side of victims.

@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social @jobale.bsky.social