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@fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social

Urban geographer and digital media scholar | Postdoc @META_PoliMi | Visiting Fellow in AI, Data & Society @oxford_brookes

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A heartfelt thank-you to @ohalpern.bsky.social and Robert for their generous and thought-provoking responses to my (sometimes overly long!) questions, and to the editors for their kind invitation to contribute!

18.07.2025 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Some time ago, I had the pleasure (privilege, really) of conversing with Orit Halpern (@ohalpern.bsky.social) and Robert Mitchell about their book 'The Smartness Mandate'. The result of that exchange is now published in the latest issue of 'I Quaderni di Into the Black Box': bit.ly/3TMXwX5

18.07.2025 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency This article interrogates the reconfiguration of human-technology relationships through urban artificial intelligence (AI), complicating how the human subject is understood and invoked within urban...

Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency by @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social and @casey-lynch.bsky.social in Urban Geography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

27.06.2025 07:48 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We hope this might open new directions for engaging the politics of urban AI and for broadening the questions geographers and others ask about emerging sociotechnical systems.

23.06.2025 09:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In it, we complicate how the human subject is invoked in urban scholarship on AI by rethinking intelligence, autonomy, and agency through a posthumanist lens.

23.06.2025 09:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Excited to share a new open access article with @casey-lynch.bsky.social, just out in @urbangeography.bsky.social:
"Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency":

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

23.06.2025 09:07 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The 10th STS Italia Conference kicks off tomorrow, 11 June, in Milan. If you’re around, you’re very welcome to join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me for our two sessions on β€˜Simondon & AI’ in the afternoon. Abstract details here: stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...

10.06.2025 08:48 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Artificial intelligence and the state: Seeing like an artificial neural network - Petter TΓΆrnberg, Ola SΓΆderstrΓΆm, Jennifer Barella, Saskia Greyling, Sophie Oldfield, 2025 The emergence of the modern state was closely intertwined with the advent of statistics and demographic data. Today, we are witnessing the ascent of artificial ...

Looks fascinating - via @vgoujon.bsky.social : journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

19.05.2025 10:22 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Taming Affect: On the Construction of Objectivity in Data Annotation Practices - Digital Society Affective computing applications promise to decode human emotional expressions and provide objective insights into users’ affective experience, ranging from frustration and boredom to states of clinic...

✨ Very happy to share that my new paper on data annotation practices in affective computing is out ✨ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

πŸ™ thanks to the fantastic editors of this SI on the politics of machine learning evaluation @dluitse.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social & Tobias Blanke

08.05.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Information, Communication & Society Special Issue: Metaverse Datafication: Technologies, Definitions, and Futures. Guest Editors: Chris Hesselbein, Paolo Bory and Stefano Canali. Volume 28, Issue 5 of Information, Communication & Societ...

Our special issue co-edited with @chrish6699.bsky.social and @stefanocanali.bsky.social is finally out!
"Metaverse Datafication: Technologies, Definitions, and Futures"

www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/2...

05.05.2025 09:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t miss @selinnugent.bsky.social’s great piece in the AI & Society special issue that @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and I are guest editing, exploring evolutionary analogies in AI research and how biological diction shapes imaginaries of AI as individuated systems link.springer.com/article/10.1...

23.04.2025 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats, Selin! So happy to see your fantastic piece out!

23.04.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi Matthew, that sounds great, thank you so much!

20.02.2025 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Featuring chapters by @melhogan.bsky.social & Gwendolyn Blue; @stephen-cornford.bsky.social; Sy Taffel; @caitlinhafferty.bsky.social, @jirkapanek.bsky.social & Ian Babelon; @ruthmachen.bsky.social; @icalzada.bsky.social; and Jessica McLean, among others

20.02.2025 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Digital Technologies for Sustainable Futures: Promises and Pitfalls"Β (CertomΓ , Iapaolo, Martellozzo, eds.), published last year by Routledge: bit.ly/4cxnwxz

20.02.2025 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Hi Shamil, sure

06.02.2025 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Starting today (Feb 4-6)! "Urban Speculations: Cities, Technologies, Futures" conference brings together international scholars across STS, urban, geographical, media and speculation studies to explore speculations in their many dimensions (financial, technological, cultural) and urban spaces.

04.02.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The deadline in next Monday, 3 February

@susanaaires.bsky.social
@ludovico-rella.bsky.social

31.01.2025 10:28 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social and I are hoping to organize a session on the theme of 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' at this year's RGS-IBG (26-29 August 2025, Birmingham, UK). Please consider submitting! #geography #rgs

30.01.2025 11:39 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

Latest from the special issue I’m guest-editing with @ludovico-rella.bsky.social for AI & Societyβ€”a fantastic piece by @benedetta.bsky.social, @sj-bennett.bsky.social & @ftollon.bsky.social: β€œEverybody knows what a pothole is”: representations of work and intelligence in AI practice and governance

27.01.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi Leah, I just added you to the list

27.01.2025 11:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Only one week left to send in your abstract for our panel on 'Gilbert Simondon and Artificial Intelligence' at #STSItalia2025, put together with @susanaaires.bsky.social and @ludovico-rella.bsky.social. Deadline: 3 February!

27.01.2025 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The deadline is coming up for our CfA for #STSItalia2025: 'Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary' (Panel n.3)! Abstracts due 3rd February 2025. Organized with @susanaaires.bsky.social and @ludovico-rella.bsky.social. More info: bit.ly/49xJP5m

21.01.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Added :)

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@chiarboni.bsky.social

16.12.2024 10:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Speaking of Simondon, check out the latest entry in our special issue in AI & Society by @susanaaires.bsky.social, which explores the relevance of Simondon for understanding the functioning and politics of DNNs

16.12.2024 10:20 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our panel description can be checked out here: stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...

12.12.2024 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me at #STSItalia2025 in Milan next June! Abstracts due 3 February 2025.

For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m

12.12.2024 13:19 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 5

Hi Camille, yes sure

03.12.2024 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi Sophie, you’re welcome, just dropped you in

02.12.2024 09:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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