"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
Proud to have been part of this special issue of Somatechnics, Data in Motion: Creating the Possibility for Other-than-human Worlds. Thanks to Katherine Reilly, Gillian Russell and Rachel Horst for all their hard work. My article is free to read, pls check it out
www.euppublishing.com/toc/soma/15/1
ORG now has a bsky profile, in case you want to join us or follow what we're reading:
bsky.app/profile/orgo...
I’ve used an excerpt from Lupton’s Data Selves to communicate the posthuman perspective on surveillance, and an excerpt from Marx’s Windows Into the Soul to demonstrate the analytic diversity of the idea of being surveilled, what it means in different cultural/legal/social contexts.
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Excited to read this
New piece in JOPE has emerged from copyediting limbo: Digital Bildung as Semantic Emplacement. A contribution to ongoing debates around self-cultivation and education in the context of datafication. Check out the video summary and full article, here: doi.org/10.1093/jope...
Looks great, downloaded to dig into over the break. Heads up that there's a typo in the title on the Lulu site!
