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Metabolic Commons: Against Entropic Zones and the Ecology That War Built
Feminist Political Ecology Workshop: Call for Papers
Ca' Foscari Univ. of Venice
Sept 21–22, 2026
organised with @antoniamajaca.bsky.social
Metabolic Commons: Against Entropic Zones and the Ecology That War Built call for papers.
Rejecting the great-man narrative centered on Friedrich List, our essay of the week reconstructs neo-mercantilism as a polycentric ideology, one that generated distinct versions in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.
With Eric Helleiner in @synesisideas.bsky.social
buff.ly/FTGeRfv
Soon!
Fall 26 in the UK
Winter 26-27 in the US
A book I wrote after the beginning of the Ukraine war, and that's unfortunately been vindicated by further events.
Global security lies in decarbonization: in times of war, green energy means peace.
this looks very exciting 👇
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
"It argues that these authors expressed a shift to an Anthropocene awareness not through prophetic representations of catastrophic change but rather through Promethean fantasies of control." Aligns very well with my argument about Russian/Soviet planetary thought: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
rose-anne gush
Machine, Organism and Language: A Comparative Epistemology of AI Models.
My new essay for AI & Society with a delirious diagram to trace such a complex genealogy. Proudly propelled by @erc-aimodels.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s001...
Concrete Destruction: Costs and Damages of the Concrete and Cement Industry and the Future of Construction
Excited to share a study I co-authored, together with Tom Ackers, Conrad Kunze, Paulina Orozco, and Nils Urbanus, published by the @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social
www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rl...
Against the background of poverty, environmental degradation and economic underdevelopment, many in the Delta struggle to see how the resumption of oil extraction could produce a positive outcome, let alone deliver tangible benefits to local communities.
www.break-down.org/the-price-of...
This Friday I, megalomanically, am speaking to the world through the medium of Zoom.
If piqued, one can register here: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
Hope to see some familiar faces!
A new opening in our department. If this is something you would consider and have questions, please get in touch!
www.cbs.dk/om-cbs/job-o...
The Syllabus
Pierre Charbonnier
As the Nigerian government pushes to restart oil production in Ogoniland, decades of pollution, dispossession and broken promises cast a long shadow over the future.
Inspired by Ernst Cassirer and Michel Foucault, this essay proposes a comparative epistemology of three paradigms central to the making of modern science, the humanities, and more recently AI: machine, organism, and language. These paradigms have influenced one another and recombined into complex analogies. Whereas the philosophy of science has often emphasised the organism-machine analogy from early modern mechanicism to cybernetics, this essay extends the inquiry to the language-machine analogy of late modernity, which runs from the telegraph and the Turing machine to information theory and Large Language Models. The rise of AI is thus framed as the confluence of these three paradigms, read not from an internalist perspective but from an externalist one, as mirrors of the social order. Against the dominant view of AI as a purely mathematical achievement or an imitation of biological intelligence, the essay argues that what AI systems automate are the relational structures sedimented in human cooperation, the division of labour, and culture at large—making AI, in effect, a model of the social manifold.
