Ali Rıza Taşkale
@alirizataskale.bsky.social
https://alirizataskale.com
External Lecturer at Roskilde University
@distinktionjournal.bsky.social special issue editor
Recent pub: Reactionary futurism in Silicon Valley https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21624887.2025.2474781
External Lecturer at Roskilde University
@distinktionjournal.bsky.social special issue editor
Recent pub: Reactionary futurism in Silicon Valley https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21624887.2025.2474781
Six presentations in three days? At this rate, I’m expecting you to start presenting in your dreams too :)
November 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Six presentations in three days? At this rate, I’m expecting you to start presenting in your dreams too :)
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The West has decided coastal Bangladesh will drown. Bangladeshis disagree. @amitav.bsky.social on apocalyptic thinking, disastrous "climate solutions," and who gets to imagine the future. With photos by
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Beyond the Apocalypse • Articles • EQUATOR
How visions of catastrophe shape the ‘climate solutions’ imposed by aid agencies
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October 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The West has decided coastal Bangladesh will drown. Bangladeshis disagree. @amitav.bsky.social on apocalyptic thinking, disastrous "climate solutions," and who gets to imagine the future. With photos by
Dayanita Singh www.equator.org/articles/bey...
Dayanita Singh www.equator.org/articles/bey...
That's wonderful, congrats Damla!
October 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
That's wonderful, congrats Damla!
The article can be read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Each new publication reminds me what an exceptional group of scholars I’ve had the pleasure of working with on this issue!
Each new publication reminds me what an exceptional group of scholars I’ve had the pleasure of working with on this issue!
Disruption as preemption, preemption as enclosure: Silicon Valley as financial science fiction
In this essay I argue that the cultural formation of Silicon Valley with its cult of the CEO can be read as a ‘financial science fiction.’ As such, it can be analyzed as part of a larger cultural (...
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October 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The article can be read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Each new publication reminds me what an exceptional group of scholars I’ve had the pleasure of working with on this issue!
Each new publication reminds me what an exceptional group of scholars I’ve had the pleasure of working with on this issue!
The third article has now been published!
Hugh C. O’Connell (UMass Boston) shows how Devs (2020) exposes Silicon Valley’s “disruption” as less about innovation than control. Through “financial science fiction", the Valley turns possibility into profit, deifies the CEO, & encloses the future itself.
Hugh C. O’Connell (UMass Boston) shows how Devs (2020) exposes Silicon Valley’s “disruption” as less about innovation than control. Through “financial science fiction", the Valley turns possibility into profit, deifies the CEO, & encloses the future itself.
October 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The third article has now been published!
Hugh C. O’Connell (UMass Boston) shows how Devs (2020) exposes Silicon Valley’s “disruption” as less about innovation than control. Through “financial science fiction", the Valley turns possibility into profit, deifies the CEO, & encloses the future itself.
Hugh C. O’Connell (UMass Boston) shows how Devs (2020) exposes Silicon Valley’s “disruption” as less about innovation than control. Through “financial science fiction", the Valley turns possibility into profit, deifies the CEO, & encloses the future itself.
Sherryl Vint shows how Silicon Valley blends economic power (platform capitalism, the gig economy, financialization) with cultural power in science-fictional rhetoric, undermining both material resources and our ability to imagine fair, collective futures.
The article can be read here:
The article can be read here:
Aspirational identity and class politics: identifying as capital in Silicon Valley
This paper examines how Silicon Valley distorts and remakes class relations, both structurally, through its reliance on venture capitalist funding, gig economy employment, and intangible assets, an...
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October 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Sherryl Vint shows how Silicon Valley blends economic power (platform capitalism, the gig economy, financialization) with cultural power in science-fictional rhetoric, undermining both material resources and our ability to imagine fair, collective futures.
The article can be read here:
The article can be read here:
The second article has just been published! The always brilliant Sherryl Vint argues that Silicon Valley’s core product is a “science-fictional ideology". It promotes an identity where one aims to be capital itself, ever-growing and immortal, erasing the working class & undermining solidarity.
October 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The second article has just been published! The always brilliant Sherryl Vint argues that Silicon Valley’s core product is a “science-fictional ideology". It promotes an identity where one aims to be capital itself, ever-growing and immortal, erasing the working class & undermining solidarity.