Ulises Navarro Aguiar
@ulissess.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg.
https://ulisesnavarro.com
https://ulisesnavarro.com
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‘Search can sometimes take you to places you don’t want to go. But at least a “classical” search engine like Google in the 2000s and 2010s took you outside itself, and perhaps prompted you to evaluate what you found there.’
Donald MacKenzie on Google’s future: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie on Google’s future: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie · The Future of Search: Will we still google it?
I’m starting to feel some pre-emptive nostalgia when I do a Google search. Yes, it’s true, search can sometimes take...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
‘Search can sometimes take you to places you don’t want to go. But at least a “classical” search engine like Google in the 2000s and 2010s took you outside itself, and perhaps prompted you to evaluate what you found there.’
Donald MacKenzie on Google’s future: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie on Google’s future: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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In our new issue, eight writers examine the worldwide decline in deep literacy. Read Nicolás Medina Mora, Annette Hug, Kim Hyesoon, Zhang Yueran, Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin, Yassin Adnan, Valeria Villalobos Guízar, and Alain Mabanckou on global brainrot.
Brain Rot Without Borders | Baffler Forum
There’s no point in denying it anymore: literature as we know it is well on its way to becoming a lost art.
thebaffler.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
In our new issue, eight writers examine the worldwide decline in deep literacy. Read Nicolás Medina Mora, Annette Hug, Kim Hyesoon, Zhang Yueran, Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin, Yassin Adnan, Valeria Villalobos Guízar, and Alain Mabanckou on global brainrot.
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Autonomia ethnographica
November 2, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Autonomia ethnographica
"The North American Boys had broken with the long tradition of bourgeois Mexicans getting their doctorates in Europe and had gone to graduate school at Harvard, Yale, and MIT. Going north to study neoclassical economics was for them a form of rebellion against older PRI apparatchiks..."
The NAFTA Novel | Nicolás Medina Mora
For all its utopianism, the NAFTA Novel remains the literary form of a diminutive bourgeois class.
thebaffler.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"The North American Boys had broken with the long tradition of bourgeois Mexicans getting their doctorates in Europe and had gone to graduate school at Harvard, Yale, and MIT. Going north to study neoclassical economics was for them a form of rebellion against older PRI apparatchiks..."
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Offset Marketplace is a new project in collaboration with @tega.bsky.social. We calculate the carbon savings of industrial sabotage, package these savings into carbon credits, and sell them as certificates. Profits are then donated back to the activists responsible for the actions. offset.labr.io
October 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Offset Marketplace is a new project in collaboration with @tega.bsky.social. We calculate the carbon savings of industrial sabotage, package these savings into carbon credits, and sell them as certificates. Profits are then donated back to the activists responsible for the actions. offset.labr.io
another design criticism is possible
There seems to be a problem with applying criticism to certain aspects of 21st century capitalism (vast, multi-media arena concerts, at £200 a ticket, being another), where their sole purpose is to be slightly bigger, faster, shinier, more impressive than the one that came before
October 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
another design criticism is possible
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I have a new piece on the politics of discounting in the latest @nybooks.com, hopefully of interest to some.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Price of Tomorrow | Geoff Mann
The current discount rate means that the government views the long-term future of humanity as not metaphorically but literally worthless.
www.nybooks.com
October 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I have a new piece on the politics of discounting in the latest @nybooks.com, hopefully of interest to some.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Wrote more about Benjamin Bratton's paranoid imagination of a media studies cabal holding back AI progress in Europe. mail.cyberneticforests.com/is-the-media...
Is the Media Studies Cabal in the Room With Us Right Now?
I read The Stack in 2020 as a grad student in ANU's Applied Cybernetics program. I give it credit for directing my attention to the interaction between layers of digital and physical infrastructures. ...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
October 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Wrote more about Benjamin Bratton's paranoid imagination of a media studies cabal holding back AI progress in Europe. mail.cyberneticforests.com/is-the-media...
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Our latest issue just out and, we think we can say this, it is a banger. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/c... feat. @philiproscoe.bsky.social @ulissess.bsky.social @cibled.bsky.social @maijutanninen.bsky.social @busedoyu.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social @theobourgeron.bsky.social &&
October 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Our latest issue just out and, we think we can say this, it is a banger. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/c... feat. @philiproscoe.bsky.social @ulissess.bsky.social @cibled.bsky.social @maijutanninen.bsky.social @busedoyu.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social @theobourgeron.bsky.social &&
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‘The “three energy transitions” narrative is a story that progresses logically to a happy ending. And that raises a question. What if it is a fairy tale dressed up in a business suit or, worse, a mirage, a dangerously seductive illusion?’
— @adamtooze.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
— @adamtooze.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Tooze · Trouble Transitioning: What energy transition?
An honest account of energy history would conclude not that energy transitions were a regular feature of the past, but...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
‘The “three energy transitions” narrative is a story that progresses logically to a happy ending. And that raises a question. What if it is a fairy tale dressed up in a business suit or, worse, a mirage, a dangerously seductive illusion?’
— @adamtooze.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
— @adamtooze.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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I have a review of John Ganz's When The Clock Broke in the new LRB www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
William Davies · Repeal the 20th Century: Pre-MAGA
To understand the intellectual coordinates of Trumpism requires us to look in less conventional places and to pay more...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I have a review of John Ganz's When The Clock Broke in the new LRB www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Our article on the design-ification of future making (out last March) has finally found a home in the latest issue of @jcultecon.bsky.social (i.e., vol. 18, no. 5)! :)
doi.org/10.1080/1753...
doi.org/10.1080/1753...
The design-ification of future making: uncertainty and divination in contemporary business discourse
This article investigates how design-oriented approaches have made their way into contemporary business discourse. It does so by exploring how the figures of ‘the strategist' and ‘the entrepreneur'...
doi.org
October 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Our article on the design-ification of future making (out last March) has finally found a home in the latest issue of @jcultecon.bsky.social (i.e., vol. 18, no. 5)! :)
doi.org/10.1080/1753...
doi.org/10.1080/1753...
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Positionings of Embedded Design
gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/...
"This publication gives a glimpse into the work done by 2025 and 2026 cohorts of the Embedded Design MFA program at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg."
gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/...
"This publication gives a glimpse into the work done by 2025 and 2026 cohorts of the Embedded Design MFA program at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg."
August 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Positionings of Embedded Design
gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/...
"This publication gives a glimpse into the work done by 2025 and 2026 cohorts of the Embedded Design MFA program at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg."
gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/...
"This publication gives a glimpse into the work done by 2025 and 2026 cohorts of the Embedded Design MFA program at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg."
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August 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Design criticism remains stuck in nostalgia for the glory days of graphic design, so it never made the leap to coherent criticism of interactive digital products and services where the thing you need to critique is the underlying business model because everything follows from that.
August 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Design criticism remains stuck in nostalgia for the glory days of graphic design, so it never made the leap to coherent criticism of interactive digital products and services where the thing you need to critique is the underlying business model because everything follows from that.
Did AI write this?
Without artificial-intelligence technologies, balancing human-caused greenhouse-gas emissions with carbon removals by 2050 is out of reach
go.nature.com/41LtWWk
go.nature.com/41LtWWk
Net zero needs AI — five actions to realize its promise
Without artificial-intelligence technologies, balancing human-caused greenhouse-gas emissions with carbon removals by 2050 is out of reach. Action in five areas is needed to keep this goal alive.
go.nature.com
August 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Did AI write this?
Positionings of Embedded Design
gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/...
"This publication gives a glimpse into the work done by 2025 and 2026 cohorts of the Embedded Design MFA program at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg."
gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/...
"This publication gives a glimpse into the work done by 2025 and 2026 cohorts of the Embedded Design MFA program at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg."
August 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Positionings of Embedded Design
gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/...
"This publication gives a glimpse into the work done by 2025 and 2026 cohorts of the Embedded Design MFA program at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg."
gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/...
"This publication gives a glimpse into the work done by 2025 and 2026 cohorts of the Embedded Design MFA program at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg."
'Who pays for the $3tn AI building boom?' on.ft.com/4fHmxxe
Who pays for the $3tn AI building boom?
With the data centre race in full swing, private capital is joining Big Tech in seeking to capture the rewards
on.ft.com
August 14, 2025 at 8:37 AM
'Who pays for the $3tn AI building boom?' on.ft.com/4fHmxxe
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Michel Callon (1945-2025) estudiosdelaeconomia.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/m...
Michel Callon (1945-2025)
Michel Callon falleció el 28 de julio de 2025. Más información sobre su trayectoria y el immenso impacto de su obra en el sitio del CSI: Difícil imaginar tantas de las discusiones en este sitio e i…
estudiosdelaeconomia.wordpress.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Michel Callon (1945-2025) estudiosdelaeconomia.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/m...
Or better yet, read this:
Heuts, Frank, and Annemarie Mol. 2013. “What Is a Good Tomato? A Case of Valuing in Practice”. Valuation Studies 1 (2):125-46. doi.org/10.3384/vs.2...
Heuts, Frank, and Annemarie Mol. 2013. “What Is a Good Tomato? A Case of Valuing in Practice”. Valuation Studies 1 (2):125-46. doi.org/10.3384/vs.2...
August 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Or better yet, read this:
Heuts, Frank, and Annemarie Mol. 2013. “What Is a Good Tomato? A Case of Valuing in Practice”. Valuation Studies 1 (2):125-46. doi.org/10.3384/vs.2...
Heuts, Frank, and Annemarie Mol. 2013. “What Is a Good Tomato? A Case of Valuing in Practice”. Valuation Studies 1 (2):125-46. doi.org/10.3384/vs.2...
Some very saddening news.
The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.
A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.
A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.
August 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Some very saddening news.
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OnlineFirst- "Beyond AI as an environmental pharmakon: Principles for reopening the problem-space of machine learning's carbon footprint" by Loup Cellard, @profchristine.bsky.social, and Fiona Haines:
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April 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
OnlineFirst- "Beyond AI as an environmental pharmakon: Principles for reopening the problem-space of machine learning's carbon footprint" by Loup Cellard, @profchristine.bsky.social, and Fiona Haines:
@admscentre.org.au
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@admscentre.org.au
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
“AI-native universities” 🤡
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
August 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
“AI-native universities” 🤡
“Given that worlds are always more implied than they are described, we can say further that fandom disputes—canon wars—are ontological arguments about the world in question, they are attempts to express values and ideals through the ordering of a reality.”
Weeknotes/ week 31 / 2025: churches of futurity
What can we learn about futures from thinking about them as if they were faiths or fandoms? Quite a lot, if you ask me...
https://www.worldbuilding.agency/weeknotes/week-31-2025-churches-of-futurity/
What can we learn about futures from thinking about them as if they were faiths or fandoms? Quite a lot, if you ask me...
https://www.worldbuilding.agency/weeknotes/week-31-2025-churches-of-futurity/
August 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
“Given that worlds are always more implied than they are described, we can say further that fandom disputes—canon wars—are ontological arguments about the world in question, they are attempts to express values and ideals through the ordering of a reality.”