Excited to join the prestigious @SuSoRUG at @univgroningen as an International Fellow. I will contribute to their Development, Security, and Justice theme and to the SusTech Research Group, directed by the brilliant @MalcolmCV. https://t.co/OVFCjwhhJE
What happens when algorithms meet? How do they collide and collude and how does their origin determine the result of this encounter? Using the concept of the #stack, @MalcolmCV and I study the growing field of #AI and #blockchain here: https://t.co/B3Yt0gQ9Ds @ProgEconGeo 1/10
New article titled 'Hybrid materialities, power, and expertise in the era of general purpose technologies' out in @DistinktionT. The piece was spearheaded by @ludovico_rella in addition to whom I also got to work with a great bunch of colleagues... 🧵
https://t.co/fkz541HlQd
Our new collaborative article on hybrid materialities in the era of general purpose technologies is now published @DistinktionT Many thanks to @ludovico_rella & my wonderful co-authors @NThylstrup@BondoHansen@MalcolmCV Alex Preda, Rowen Xu & Till Straube https://t.co/iL5Mq1UI5c
What material and epistemic politics is produced by "general purpose technologies" like AI and blockchain? What are the conditions for claims to generality, what are the consequences, and what alternatives are we left with? This and more here👇
https://t.co/AoTDC8RGD6
STAIR Exec Committee - Call for Nominations! In advance of the annual convention in Chicago in March 2025, we invite nominations for the positions of Chair, Program Chair, Treasurer, Communications Officer, Graduate Student Representative, and Member at Large. DM us for details!
@MalcolmCV, @DaiviRTaylor and I look at blockchain applications in governing sustainability issues in global supply chains. We argue these should be read as managerial responses to failures of managerial forms of governance.
https://t.co/ZnnvBnK8O8
Finally, @malcolmcv writes about the individualist and market-based politics imaginaries underpinning applications of blockchain in carbon trading.
https://t.co/hsS5tZ1JPY
As promised, short thread on the articles in this SI:
Our intro (link👇), shows how efforts to resolve myriad sustainability challenges with new tech are depoliticising, and argues for a research agenda challenging these dynamics. 1/
At very long last, @DaiviRTaylor, @MalcolmCV and my special issue of @envplanc on ‘repoliticizing the technological turn in sustainability governance’ is out!
Will do a proper thread on all the articles later, but for now here’s the intro (open access):
https://t.co/y8tBgdUXww
Another fantastic chapter of our forthcoming handbook on financial infrastructures is available as preprint:
"AI as financial infrastructure?" by Edemilson @parana_
https://t.co/hBGW8w4sP6
Time for a book party to celebrate release of Change the Record @transcriptweb ; 27 June in the sunny north @FacultyofArtsUG in Riemer's, a local bookshop https://t.co/VXDt0dV92M
I'm already missing the amazing days we had in Lappeenranta for the International Summer School on the Political Economy of Green Digital Transition! https://t.co/TlmEeFWyUh @UniLUT
🚀 Last Thursday the HouseOfConnections saw the booklaunch of 'Global Digital Data Governance: Polycentric Perspectives' by Carolina Aguerre, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, and Jan Aart Scholte explores the future of global data government.
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