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oh just as material for us ECRs to share with our institutions to protect ourself a bit more if need be?

That's insane, and much lower than what has been reported for the previous years. Are you able to share screen grabs of their FOI response letters?

totally! this is not a critique of historians of technology, but of mainstream narratives of technological progression.

Congrats Brian, fantastic news!

Read my latest commentary on Big Tech Authoritarianism, which discusses how Big Tech actively constructs authoritarian spaces – both within their organisational structures and across broader socio-political contexts.

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The expansion of computational capital reproduces the core-periphery dynamics of earlier empires—extracting from the Global South to enrich the North—while excavating billions of years in geological time to increase the speed of algorithmic convenience by milliseconds. After feeding at this planetary scale, the industrial beast now releases a tide of slop.

Crawford's new essay in e-flux offers the best summary of the monstrous absurdity of contemporary AI that I've read in a long time.

(via @jonnyjjt.bsky.social)

www.e-flux.com/architecture...

description of RGS conference session mentioned here https://event.ac2025.exordo.com/session/449/authoritarianism-and-the-geographies-of-artificial-intelligence

To those attending the RGS conference this week: interested in authoritarianism and/or AI, do come and join us on Friday for this brilliant set of papers. It will be insightful, bleak, and much more. ✨

organised w/ @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @casey-lynch.bsky.social

Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!

It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.

Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!

It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.

New commentary with @dcockayne.bsky.social now out! As part of a special issue on AI refusal, we offer brief speculative narrative imagining working life in an AI-dominated future, navigating between dystopian and utopian visions of AI and its refusal.

Open Access Here:

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Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

anti-oil activism sounds kind of nice & punchy?

Wrote a book review of Roy Christopher's "Escape Philosophy", a rich, if somewhat universalist, dive into the human desire to escape the body.

Part of a forthcoming special issue on 'Geographies of Leaving' in Social and Cultural Geography.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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ICYMI: Thomas Dekeyser, 'Pessimism, Futility and Extinction: An Interview with Eugene Thacker' - offers a unique insight into Thacker’s approach to the thinking, doing and writing of ‘philosophy’. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I'm still in the middle of marking. Don't do this to me!

Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Lecturer in Human Geography The University of Southampton is ranked 14th in the UK (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025) and 80th globally (QS World University Rankings 2025). The School of Geography and Enviro...

Job advert: Fixed-term Lectureship (24 months) in our School of Geography and Environmental Science, with a focus on qualitative methods and health geographies. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

We trace the limits of political media content focused on 'information', 'entertainment' and 'exposure', and offer a polemic in favour of fuelling the negative passions.

Tired of the politically-stale state of much contemporary film? If so, you might vibe with this manifesto I co-wrote with Andrew Culp. It's available for online reading and for printing.

Read: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y4nbk...

Print: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rf7c2...

There's a big piece on resistance to AI and Luddism in the New Yorker — pleased to see @jathansadowski.com's great book and This Machine Kills get shouts, as well as a nice nod to Blood in the Machine.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Come join our School of Geography as a permanent lecturer!!!!

We are looking for someone who does research on AI & securitisation; AI & the future of work; AI & humanitarianism; the politics/geopolitics of AI; & algorithmic activism.

Pls share widely!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ970/l...

This looks great! Looking forward to reading.

Submitted the final manuscript of 'Techno-Negative' recently (@uminnpress.bsky.social). If all goes well, the book should be out in Spring 2026. Can't wait to share it with the world.

Not permanent unfortunately - it's a fixed-term replacement post.

So excited to see this - congratulations!

Tomorrow: Montreal screening of our two films - Machines in Flames + BREACHED - in case anyone is in the area.

Enjoyed being able to present a new project alongside
@vickiezhang.bsky.social yesterday at King's' geography seminar series. Thank you to @kbrickell.bsky.social @drruthcraggs.bsky.social and Alex Loftus for hosting us!

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What does it mean to be ‘out of it’? 🤔

How might foggier experiences of cognition change our relationship with place, to each other, and ourselves? 🌫️

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First proper article in five years, due to life stuff. If you’re interested in work, automation, the future & imagination this may be of interest #geosky

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The theme of our CfP is - painfully - gaining in further relevance as the Trump-Thiel-Musk triad deepens its AI-inflected authoritarian tendencies.

Deadline for abstract submission is this Friday.

"Without defaulting to imagining dystopias or non-affirmative worlds, we need to find ways to imagine imagination outside affirmation, if that is possible."

New Progress report by Harriet Hawkins.

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