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University of Warwick's hub for critical digital research.
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Really looking forward to doing network history and critique @cdi-warwick.bsky.social next week! #blockchain #ai #media
Blockchain vs. AI: Doing Network History in Our Current Situation
Forthcoming Public Talk by @sebgiessmann.bsky.social

Date: Next Wednesday, 25.06
Time: 10:00–11:00
Location: FAB0.08
Visit: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
June 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Translated, freshly revised + OA! @sebgiessmann.bsky.social The Connectivity of Things (MIT Press) explores 6 layers of network cultures, download: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

At Warwick next Wed (10am, FAB0.08), he proposes a 7th layer of extractive, clashing infrastructures: Blockchain vs. AI.
The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures since 1832
A media history of the material and infrastructural features of networking practices, a German classic translated for the first time into English.Nets hold
direct.mit.edu
June 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Blockchain vs. AI: Doing Network History in Our Current Situation
Forthcoming Public Talk by @sebgiessmann.bsky.social

Date: Next Wednesday, 25.06
Time: 10:00–11:00
Location: FAB0.08
Visit: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
June 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I QUIT!
feat. Cecilia Ghidotti & Craig Gent

Join us for a hybrid CDI-TV event on the politics of quitting, anti-work and refusal: warwick.ac.uk/cdi

Mon 23 June
17:00-18:00
FAB1.16 + livestream (subscribe!) youtube.com/@centrefordigitalinquiry

#Refusal #AntiWork #Operaismo
June 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
UKRAiNATV #EFIR 134 NOVARA MEDIA STUDIES x GEORGIAN POETRY GEORGIAN POETRY - Live w/ #CDI-TV's @vivaharehills.bsky.social - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hggd...
UKRAiNATV #EFIR 134 NOVARA MEDIA STUDIES x GEORGIAN POETRY GEORGIAN POETRY
YouTube video by StreamArtStudio / UKRAiNATV
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March 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Open Letter from CRMEP Students & Researchers on Kingston University’s Proposed Closure of the Department of Humanities: www.e-flux.com/notes/658933...
Open Letter from CRMEP Students - Notes - e-flux
Students oppose the closure of Kingston University’s Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP).
www.e-flux.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:56 AM
📴 Digital Disconnection, CDI-TV Livestream Today with Alessandro Gandini @afrontiercity.bsky.social | Tune in: 17:00 GMT - tinyurl.com/bdx2uw76
March 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Pre-read for tomorrow’s livestream w/ @noortjem.bsky.social

New commentary on Ruckenstein, reflecting on the need to rethink "socio-technical" symmetry in STS as "the digital" increasingly turns social life into a resource: tinyurl.com/28trkz7z

Tune in @ 17:00 GMT, 06.03: tinyurl.com/3fu2w63n
Commentary on Minna Ruckenstein's ‘breathing spaces’ - Noortje Marres, 2025
This commentary is based on a review of the reflection paper by Minna Ruckenstein's on breathing spaces.
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March 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Artificial Societies: Confronting Social Engineering after the Techlash hybrid symposium. Part of the Sociological Review Seminar Series.

6 Mar livestream @cdi-warwick.bsky.social buff.ly/0kKfgSJ
7 Mar event buff.ly/QsnXR9J

@michael-dieter.bsky.social @mvaldeb.bsky.social @noortjem.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Busy week ahead at CDI!

📴 @afrontiercity.bsky.social – Digital Disconnection | Wed, 17:00 GMT
🌐 @noortjem.bsky.social – Reality Engineering | Thu, 17:00 GMT
🤖 Artificial Societies Symposium – Friday

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Centre for Digital Inquiry, University of Warwick
Warwick University's hub for critical digital research.
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March 3, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Next up from UKRAiNATV - ukrainatv.streamart.studio - still from the camp, a Trondheim-Krakow hot(s)pot - political cooking. This TUESDAY, 04.03.25, 3PM CET #StewArtNetwork
March 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Last chance to register for Artificial Societies!

How is social life being engineered by AI, platforms & Big Tech - often without accountability? Join our one-day hybrid symposium with keynotes & panels across disciplines, exploring resistance & alternatives: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
February 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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📢 CDI-TV Double Line-Up 📢

05.03 | 17:00-18:00 GMT
Digital Disconnection feat. Alessandro Gandini

06.03 | 17:00-18:00 GMT
Reality Engineering feat. Noortje Marres, Matias Valderrama Barragan & Greta Timaite

Join Onsite: Warwick Media Lab (FAB 1.16) | Online: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cdi
February 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
📢 CDI-TV Double Line-Up 📢

05.03 | 17:00-18:00 GMT
Digital Disconnection feat. Alessandro Gandini

06.03 | 17:00-18:00 GMT
Reality Engineering feat. Noortje Marres, Matias Valderrama Barragan & Greta Timaite

Join Onsite: Warwick Media Lab (FAB 1.16) | Online: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cdi
February 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Reality engineering after the tech lash? Can't wait to discuss at @cdi-warwick.bsky.social on March 6 w @michael-dieter.bsky.social @mvaldeb.bsky.social et al Does tech today dismantle societal structures? Is social reality being engineered through AI, or its fantastical twin, the virtual society?
February 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
24.F3B.25 MULTISTREAM continues, now switching from Kyiv to Tblisi: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7hf...
SPECIAL 24H #EFIR 7th season of UKRAiNATV opening
YouTube video by StreamArtStudio / UKRAiNATV
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February 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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CDI-TV joins 3RD ANNIV3RSARY OF FULLSCAL3 WAR IN UKRAIN3 MULTISTREAM today!
StreamArtNetwork (SAN) Branch - 11am CET; 10am GMT
Join the network, press , connect, share your inputs.
www.youtube.com/@streamartst...
February 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
NEW @ CDI Projects: Unheard City by @iainemsley.bsky.social - exploring the Internet of Things through sonification, sensing the socio-technical surrounds of connectivity: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
February 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
StreamArtNetwork and CDI-TV invite you to join 24.F3B.25 MULTISTREAM - 3RD ANNIV3RSARY OF FULLSCAL3 WAR IN UKRAIN3 24-hour livestream - starting tonight at 23.00 CET: youtube.com/@streamartst...
February 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
24.F3B.25 MULTISTREAM
3RD ANNIV3RSARY OF FULLSCAL3 WAR IN UKRAIN3

ONLINE real-time UPDATED PROGRAM w. ALL LINKS:
www.figma.com/proto/A9qWmb...
24h Hybrid Events Around the Stream Art Network from KYIV TO LONDON, AND MAYBE MORE, OR MAYBE LESS...
February 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Kick off 2025 w/ CDI-TV! Join next Wed for a livestream with Valentina Tanni discussing her book Exit Reality: Vaporwave, Backrooms, Weirdcore, and Other Landscapes Beyond the Threshold #StreamArtNetwork

📅 When: 15 Jan, 5pm-6pm GMT
📍 Onsite: FAB 1.16
🌐 Online: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
January 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Last night I joined CDI-TV to discuss algorithms and power at work, drawing on the interventions I make in CYBERBOSS. Thanks @michael-dieter.bsky.social and co!

CDI-TV is a livestreaming experiment in hybrid togetherness, and part of the new StreamArtNetwork which includes UKRAiNIATV and THE VOID.
December 5, 2024 at 8:28 AM