With the cover now finalized, I am pleased to announce my forthcoming book: 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐦: 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. Available this October from @ucpress.bsky.social s. 🧵 1/4
Sarah C. Dunstan and Ian Stewart eds. Race in the Modern World: An intellectual History - @universitypress.cambridge.org, August 2026
www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
I will be speaking at @rwth.bsky.social on 3 June 2026.
My talk—"Causation as Sign Action: Semiotic Empiricism and the Causal Complexity of Large Language Models"—draws on my new work (soon to be published) on Peircean semiotics and LLMs.
khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/causat...
It’s alive! Copies of @fintechcapital.bsky.social, by @paullangley.bsky.social and me, published by @princetonupress.bsky.social arrived this morning. Out in the US soon, and in the UK a little later.
Dave Beer and Benjamin Jacobsen ( @bnjacobsen.bsky.social ) have published on AI, distillation, and the reframing of reasoning in ‘Big Data & Society’ ( @bigdatasoc.bsky.social ).
buff.ly/DfOxDKb
From the Archive: Thomas Lemke, 'An Alternative Model of Politics? Prospects and Problems of Jane Bennett’s Vital Materialism' - discusses basic arguments and important achievements of Jane Bennett’s vital materialism. (2018) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Available for preorder - Algorithmic Capital: Resistance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Jonathan Durand Folco and Jonathan Martineau
A rich and audacious account of the mutually reinforcing transformations of capitalism and technology in the age of AI
"Anthropic is the clean coal of AI. And clean coal doesn't exist" - Karen Hao speaking at Hay yesterday.
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
“Artificial intelligence, conceptions of distillation and the reframing of reasoning” by David Beer and @bnjacobsen.bsky.social.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....
#AI #reasoning #DeepSeeek #ML
On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍
airesistlist.org
This book provides a critical theory of the new stage of algorithmic capitalism, and maps out paths for critique and resistance. AI and algorithms are not just technologies, they are rooted in new cap...
This article discusses the basic arguments and important achievements of Jane Bennett’s vital materialism, as well as some problems and limitations of this theo...
