Our symposyum 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝘼𝙡𝙜𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙢: 𝙆𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙡𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙋𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝙊𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧 will take place on 2-3 February 2026.
The 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 is now online: www.unive.it/worldalgorithm
𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀: Grégoire Chamayou, Ben Tarnoff, Moira Weigel, Cédric Durand and Cecilia Rikap.
Vector for Workers: Models of Automation and Autonomy in the Long AI Century
hdl.handle.net/10278/5099627 [preprint]
Deutscher Memorial Prize Lecture - XXII Historical Materialism Conference - 7 November 2025, SOAS University of London
In memoriam Paolo Virno (1952-2025)
e-flux special issue 162 is out now!
Operativism: Labor, Automation, Agitation
www.e-flux.com/journal/162
Edited by Elena Vogman and Matteo Pasquinelli
Save the Date - Our socialization project has invited Matteo Pasquinelli, Anna-Verena Nosthoff, Roland Meyer & Rainer Mühlhoff to discuss critical perspectives on AI on Monday, February 16th.
More information: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/critiq...
Thanks to our planetary spiritual guides Xiang Zairong and Elena Vogman I will land again in Shanghai and then off soon to Duke Kunshan University to learn more about knowledge politics in between China and the West.
ah.dukekunshan.edu.cn/event/toward...
Michael Hardt and Sandro Mezzadra interviewed me for Portolan on the "theories of automation" in the age of AI and the question of political organisation beyond AI. I asked them a few difficult questions too!
portolan-journal.org?post=the-aut...
Today in New York
www.e-flux.com/events/67832...
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...
"Overaccumulating AI: rationale, faultlines, and politics". My intervention at the World Algorithm Conference early february in Venice. Thanks to @mttpsq.bsky.social, @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social and others for this wonderful event. youtu.be/K_IJ_LPg0aU?...
Erhellender Austausch von @cominsitu.bsky.social mit @mttpsq.bsky.social, @annanosthoff.bsky.social, @bildoperationen.bsky.social und @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social über den Stand der und die Notwendigkeit von Kritik an AI - @ktbberlin.bsky.social.
with contributions by Elena Vogman, Matteo Pasquinelli, Harun Farocki, Tom Holert, Olexii Kuchanskyi, Alla Vronskaya, Aleksei Gastev, Evgenii Petrov, Aleksandra Selivanova, Devin Fore, Kalindi Vora, N...
AI models have left their infancy as techniques of pattern recognition and, over the span of a decade, have become vast representations of entire cultural and
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.
