Tanja Wiehn

Trigger Points Trigger Points - Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Is society really polarized? This book explores key conflicts...

An English translation of our book "Trigger Points. Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society" will come out @brisunipress.bsky.social: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/triggerpoints

It studies the social bases of political divides over migration, climate, diversity & redistribution

Absolutely amazing! Huge congratulations, Ben 🎉!! Can‘t wait to follow all the great things you will do with this project!!!

Event poster: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Large Language Models and the Returns of Critical Theory, June 19, 14-15.30. University of Copenhagen.

✨Looking so much forward to welcoming @whkchun.bsky.social at @ucph.bsky.social next week to discuss the politics of data loss w our @erc.europa.eu Data Loss project. Please feel more than welcome to join us for Chun's public lecture June 19, 14-15.30 co-organized w @mariaa.bsky.social @aicentre.dk.

Cover of Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen edited by Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin. The cover has a contemporary art installation with black-and-white images projected onto cylindrical surfaces. The title is in bold pink letters and the subtitle is in white. The background has a modern aesthetic, with shadows and light adding depth to the image.

The contributors to "Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen," edited by Neda Atanasoski & @nassimparvin.bsky.social , capture the ambivalence of new and emerging technologies that provoke a sense of creep. #CulturalStudies #CriticalEthnicStudies
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In the German system, the professor is
- supervisor
- employer
- examiner
of "their" PhD students.
Plus, they usually function as gatekeeper to the relevant scientific community.

What can possibly go wrong? 🤔

I contributed some #dataloss research for this great piece by @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @richove.bsky.social in the NYT today!

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Any students interested in critical perspectives on datafication? This fall I am giving a newly minted course: "The Data-driven Society: Social, Political, and Ethical Aspects of Datafication" (3 ECTS, in English, part-time) at Lund Uni. Apply before April 15!
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Uncovered: Abuse at top German science institution – DW – 03/13/2025 The Max Planck Society is Germany's preeminent research organization, boasting 31 Nobel laureates. But insufficient oversight leaves international scientists exposed to abuse and the whims of the inst...

Uncovered: Abuse at top German science institution

The Max Planck Society is Germany's preeminent research organization, boasting 31 Nobel laureates. But insufficient oversight leaves international scientists exposed to abuse and the whims of the institutes' directors.
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Sucks when people take your stuff and use it to make their stuff and don’t pay for it, eh?

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

Looking forward to reading this!!

CFP: "Depression in Popular Music," an interdisciplinary conference from Jun 26-27 2025 at @sorbonne-universite.fr Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, co-organized by myself and iPLesp. Proposals due Feb 15. See CfP for details:
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Ein Bro für die Kultur: Die Berufung von Thilo Mischke zu „ttt“ ist ein schlimmes Signal | Übermedien Gegen den Moderator spricht nicht nur sein Buch „In 80 Frauen um die Welt“, sondern vor allem, wie er sich seitdem über Männer und Frauen äußert.

Da kann er noch so suffisant gucken, hier ist meine Zusammenfassung der Causa #Mischke . Mit zahlreichen Gründen dafür, warum es um mehr als nur eine problematische Personalie geht. Danke @uebermedien.de für den Stall!

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Very glad to be part of this dialogue section on synthetic data and surveillance! Many thanks to the editors @bcnewell.bsky.social and @empo11on.bsky.social for facilitating this collection and the other authors for their wonderful contributions!

A fabulous new issue of Surveillance & Society is out now, the last one of 2024. This open issue offers six original articles, a special Dialogue Section on the surveillance dimensions of “Synthetic Data,” and two book reviews. #surveillance #data #academicsky

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The Journal of Continental Philosophy has just published my latest article, “The Computational Search for Unity: Synthesis in Generative AI”.

I address the representational reality of LLMs through the philosophical concept of synthesis.

Online First PDF here:
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