Alex Campolo
@alexcampolo.bsky.social
Enriched macaroni product.
Broad interests in media, science, technology, social theory.
SAFC
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nytCQGYAAAAJ&hl=en
Broad interests in media, science, technology, social theory.
SAFC
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nytCQGYAAAAJ&hl=en
All of these attacks on the BBC come from deeply malicious elites who think that regular people like you and I should aspire to nothing higher than slop: social media garbage, sub-literate podcasters, and cable news noise.
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
All of these attacks on the BBC come from deeply malicious elites who think that regular people like you and I should aspire to nothing higher than slop: social media garbage, sub-literate podcasters, and cable news noise.
This Kirby Air Riders game game is INSANE
November 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This Kirby Air Riders game game is INSANE
This is just so obviously true. Glad to see people saying it without embarrassment. renewal.org.uk/blog/is-dsa-...
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This is just so obviously true. Glad to see people saying it without embarrassment. renewal.org.uk/blog/is-dsa-...
Nice appreciation of a singular musical force. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...
Meg White’s Drumming Spoke Louder Than Words
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November 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Nice appreciation of a singular musical force. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...
"Both views ignore what may be Mamdani’s most important contribution in the current moment: he has resurrected a universalist, redistributive, civic-egalitarian politics that had practically vanished from the national and international scene." www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Zohran's Promise - Dissent Magazine
The Mamdani campaign extended the arena of political participation to ordinary and unseen people of every place and pursuit. The challenge going forward will be sustaining faith in the idea that the c...
www.dissentmagazine.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
"Both views ignore what may be Mamdani’s most important contribution in the current moment: he has resurrected a universalist, redistributive, civic-egalitarian politics that had practically vanished from the national and international scene." www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Stunning. music.apple.com/gb/album/lux...
LUX by ROSALÍA on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 15 Songs
music.apple.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Stunning. music.apple.com/gb/album/lux...
How have we let this annihilation happen.
Inside Gaza, BBC sees total devastation after two years of war
With endless rubble and destroyed streets as far as the eye can see, any plans for Gaza's future are a far cry from where it is today, writes Lucy Williamson.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
How have we let this annihilation happen.
"Le monde confisqué argues that ‘finite capitalism’, a worldview and system that prevailed in the early modern period, re-emerged in the era of high imperialism and has returned again today, has been the dominant form of capitalism..." newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
Nicholas Mulder, Interludes of Abundance, NLR 155, September–October 2025
Nicholas Mulder on Arnaud Orain, Le monde confisqué. Reading of the current neo-mercantilist lurch as a return to the norm of long-run capitalist history.
newleftreview.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"Le monde confisqué argues that ‘finite capitalism’, a worldview and system that prevailed in the early modern period, re-emerged in the era of high imperialism and has returned again today, has been the dominant form of capitalism..." newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
New Riley - Brenner joint in the latest NLR newleftreview.org
NLR 155, September–October 2025
NLR 155, September–October 2025. Includes articles by Martín Mosquera, Dylan Riley, Robert Brenner, Owen Hatherley, Nan Z. Da, Nicholas Mulder and Gabriele Pedullà
newleftreview.org
November 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
New Riley - Brenner joint in the latest NLR newleftreview.org
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🚨On November 12, we are delighted to welcome @amoorelouise.bsky.social and @alexcampolo.bsky.social as the opening speakers of the 2025/2026 Critical AI Seminar Series (online)✨
🗓️ November 12, 2025 from 5:00-6:30 PM (CEST) on Zoom
✨Register via: www.create.humanities.uva.nl/events/1-cri...
🗓️ November 12, 2025 from 5:00-6:30 PM (CEST) on Zoom
✨Register via: www.create.humanities.uva.nl/events/1-cri...
#1 Critical AI Seminar Series: On reading machine learning
November 12, 17-18:30 (CEST): On reading machine learning One of the strengths of Critical AI studies has been a rapid development of methods for addressing the different social and political objects ...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🚨On November 12, we are delighted to welcome @amoorelouise.bsky.social and @alexcampolo.bsky.social as the opening speakers of the 2025/2026 Critical AI Seminar Series (online)✨
🗓️ November 12, 2025 from 5:00-6:30 PM (CEST) on Zoom
✨Register via: www.create.humanities.uva.nl/events/1-cri...
🗓️ November 12, 2025 from 5:00-6:30 PM (CEST) on Zoom
✨Register via: www.create.humanities.uva.nl/events/1-cri...
Ackman, Bloomberg, assorted freaks on X, your boy Cuomo took a hell of a beating!
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Ackman, Bloomberg, assorted freaks on X, your boy Cuomo took a hell of a beating!
Happening now!
Looks awesome: Fred Turner on "The California Authoritarians" at Sciences Po / CNRS in November: medialab.sciencespo.fr/actu/the-cal...
The California Authoritarians | médialab Sciences Po
Le médialab de Sciences Po et le Centre Internet et Société du CNRS s’associent pour organiser une conférence exceptionnelle avec Fred Turner (Stanford University), autour d’une question centrale : Co...
medialab.sciencespo.fr
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Happening now!
Unreal version of “Helpless” with Joni Mitchell from the new archive series… music.apple.com/gb/album/hel...
Helpless (with Joni Mitchell) by Neil Young on Apple Music
Song · 2024 · Duration 5:42
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November 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Unreal version of “Helpless” with Joni Mitchell from the new archive series… music.apple.com/gb/album/hel...
Typically sharp essay from Kundani and Roy. But I was disappointed with the thinness of the historical and conceptual discussion of the idea of civilization itself - a brief nod to "the Enlightenment" boom - 20th century... One thinks of Elias, for example.... www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-cl...
November 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Typically sharp essay from Kundani and Roy. But I was disappointed with the thinness of the historical and conceptual discussion of the idea of civilization itself - a brief nod to "the Enlightenment" boom - 20th century... One thinks of Elias, for example.... www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-cl...
This type of point - regarding China's world leading green energy sector, solar in particular - is so rarely made by people who lazily refer to government policy. It is a whole of society effort for which we should all be grateful. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
November 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
This type of point - regarding China's world leading green energy sector, solar in particular - is so rarely made by people who lazily refer to government policy. It is a whole of society effort for which we should all be grateful. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
"Milei’s Argentina, which has borrowed heavily in a currency – dollars – it lacks, is continuing with self-defeating austerity to maintain access to $40bn in American credit. This is a Potemkin stability." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on Argentina’s election: one step closer to becoming a Trumpian client state | Ediorial
Editorial: A $40bn rescue may have helped Javier Milei scrape through midterms, but it leaves Argentina’s democracy and economy more dependent than ever on Washington
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
"Milei’s Argentina, which has borrowed heavily in a currency – dollars – it lacks, is continuing with self-defeating austerity to maintain access to $40bn in American credit. This is a Potemkin stability." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"infections are generally not benign" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...
Covid and Flu Can Triple Your Risk of Heart Attack
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October 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM
"infections are generally not benign" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...