fabio iapaolo
@fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social
Urban geographer and digital media scholar | Postdoc @META_PoliMi | Visiting Fellow in AI, Data & Society @oxford_brookes
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@fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social
· Jun 23
New article in Urban Geography! @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social and I question concepts of intelligence, autonomy, and agency in urban AI literature through a discussion of the critical posthumanisms of Braidotti, Latour, and (in particular) Hayles to multiply the sites and actors of urban AI politics.
Excited to share a new open access article with @casey-lynch.bsky.social, just out in @urbangeography.bsky.social:
"Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency":
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency":
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Some time ago, I had the pleasure (privilege, really) of conversing with Orit Halpern (@ohalpern.bsky.social) and Robert Mitchell about their book 'The Smartness Mandate'. The result of that exchange is now published in the latest issue of 'I Quaderni di Into the Black Box': bit.ly/3TMXwX5
July 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Some time ago, I had the pleasure (privilege, really) of conversing with Orit Halpern (@ohalpern.bsky.social) and Robert Mitchell about their book 'The Smartness Mandate'. The result of that exchange is now published in the latest issue of 'I Quaderni di Into the Black Box': bit.ly/3TMXwX5
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Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency by @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social and @casey-lynch.bsky.social in Urban Geography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency
This article interrogates the reconfiguration of human-technology relationships through urban artificial intelligence (AI), complicating how the human subject is understood and invoked within urban...
www.tandfonline.com
June 27, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency by @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social and @casey-lynch.bsky.social in Urban Geography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Excited to share a new open access article with @casey-lynch.bsky.social, just out in @urbangeography.bsky.social:
"Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency":
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency":
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New article in Urban Geography! @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social and I question concepts of intelligence, autonomy, and agency in urban AI literature through a discussion of the critical posthumanisms of Braidotti, Latour, and (in particular) Hayles to multiply the sites and actors of urban AI politics.
June 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Excited to share a new open access article with @casey-lynch.bsky.social, just out in @urbangeography.bsky.social:
"Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency":
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency":
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The 10th STS Italia Conference kicks off tomorrow, 11 June, in Milan. If you’re around, you’re very welcome to join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me for our two sessions on ‘Simondon & AI’ in the afternoon. Abstract details here: stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...
CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me at #STSItalia2025 in Milan next June! Abstracts due 3 February 2025.
For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m
For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m
June 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
The 10th STS Italia Conference kicks off tomorrow, 11 June, in Milan. If you’re around, you’re very welcome to join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me for our two sessions on ‘Simondon & AI’ in the afternoon. Abstract details here: stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...
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Looks fascinating - via @vgoujon.bsky.social : journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Artificial intelligence and the state: Seeing like an artificial neural network - Petter Törnberg, Ola Söderström, Jennifer Barella, Saskia Greyling, Sophie Oldfield, 2025
The emergence of the modern state was closely intertwined with the advent of statistics and demographic data. Today, we are witnessing the ascent of artificial ...
journals.sagepub.com
May 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Looks fascinating - via @vgoujon.bsky.social : journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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✨ Very happy to share that my new paper on data annotation practices in affective computing is out ✨ link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🙏 thanks to the fantastic editors of this SI on the politics of machine learning evaluation @dluitse.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social & Tobias Blanke
🙏 thanks to the fantastic editors of this SI on the politics of machine learning evaluation @dluitse.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social & Tobias Blanke
Taming Affect: On the Construction of Objectivity in Data Annotation Practices - Digital Society
Affective computing applications promise to decode human emotional expressions and provide objective insights into users’ affective experience, ranging from frustration and boredom to states of clinic...
link.springer.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
✨ Very happy to share that my new paper on data annotation practices in affective computing is out ✨ link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🙏 thanks to the fantastic editors of this SI on the politics of machine learning evaluation @dluitse.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social & Tobias Blanke
🙏 thanks to the fantastic editors of this SI on the politics of machine learning evaluation @dluitse.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social & Tobias Blanke
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Our special issue co-edited with @chrish6699.bsky.social and @stefanocanali.bsky.social is finally out!
"Metaverse Datafication: Technologies, Definitions, and Futures"
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/2...
"Metaverse Datafication: Technologies, Definitions, and Futures"
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/2...
Information, Communication & Society
Special Issue: Metaverse Datafication: Technologies, Definitions, and Futures. Guest Editors: Chris Hesselbein, Paolo Bory and Stefano Canali. Volume 28, Issue 5 of Information, Communication & Societ...
www.tandfonline.com
May 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Our special issue co-edited with @chrish6699.bsky.social and @stefanocanali.bsky.social is finally out!
"Metaverse Datafication: Technologies, Definitions, and Futures"
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/2...
"Metaverse Datafication: Technologies, Definitions, and Futures"
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/2...
Don’t miss @selinnugent.bsky.social’s great piece in the AI & Society special issue that @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and I are guest editing, exploring evolutionary analogies in AI research and how biological diction shapes imaginaries of AI as individuated systems link.springer.com/article/10.1...
April 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Don’t miss @selinnugent.bsky.social’s great piece in the AI & Society special issue that @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and I are guest editing, exploring evolutionary analogies in AI research and how biological diction shapes imaginaries of AI as individuated systems link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Digital Technologies for Sustainable Futures: Promises and Pitfalls" (Certomà, Iapaolo, Martellozzo, eds.), published last year by Routledge: bit.ly/4cxnwxz
February 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"Digital Technologies for Sustainable Futures: Promises and Pitfalls" (Certomà, Iapaolo, Martellozzo, eds.), published last year by Routledge: bit.ly/4cxnwxz
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Starting today (Feb 4-6)! "Urban Speculations: Cities, Technologies, Futures" conference brings together international scholars across STS, urban, geographical, media and speculation studies to explore speculations in their many dimensions (financial, technological, cultural) and urban spaces.
February 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Starting today (Feb 4-6)! "Urban Speculations: Cities, Technologies, Futures" conference brings together international scholars across STS, urban, geographical, media and speculation studies to explore speculations in their many dimensions (financial, technological, cultural) and urban spaces.
CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me at #STSItalia2025 in Milan next June! Abstracts due 3 February 2025.
For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m
For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m
January 31, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social and I are hoping to organize a session on the theme of 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' at this year's RGS-IBG (26-29 August 2025, Birmingham, UK). Please consider submitting! #geography #rgs
January 30, 2025 at 11:39 AM
@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social and I are hoping to organize a session on the theme of 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' at this year's RGS-IBG (26-29 August 2025, Birmingham, UK). Please consider submitting! #geography #rgs
Latest from the special issue I’m guest-editing with @ludovico-rella.bsky.social for AI & Society—a fantastic piece by @benedetta.bsky.social, @sj-bennett.bsky.social & @ftollon.bsky.social: “Everybody knows what a pothole is”: representations of work and intelligence in AI practice and governance
📢 New publication out! 📢
Co-authored with the brilliant @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @ftollon.bsky.social, as part of @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social SI on ‘Where’s the Intelligence in AI? Mattering, Placing, and De-individuating AI' link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Co-authored with the brilliant @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @ftollon.bsky.social, as part of @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social SI on ‘Where’s the Intelligence in AI? Mattering, Placing, and De-individuating AI' link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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January 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Latest from the special issue I’m guest-editing with @ludovico-rella.bsky.social for AI & Society—a fantastic piece by @benedetta.bsky.social, @sj-bennett.bsky.social & @ftollon.bsky.social: “Everybody knows what a pothole is”: representations of work and intelligence in AI practice and governance
Only one week left to send in your abstract for our panel on 'Gilbert Simondon and Artificial Intelligence' at #STSItalia2025, put together with @susanaaires.bsky.social and @ludovico-rella.bsky.social. Deadline: 3 February!
CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me at #STSItalia2025 in Milan next June! Abstracts due 3 February 2025.
For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m
For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m
January 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Only one week left to send in your abstract for our panel on 'Gilbert Simondon and Artificial Intelligence' at #STSItalia2025, put together with @susanaaires.bsky.social and @ludovico-rella.bsky.social. Deadline: 3 February!
The deadline is coming up for our CfA for #STSItalia2025: 'Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary' (Panel n.3)! Abstracts due 3rd February 2025. Organized with @susanaaires.bsky.social and @ludovico-rella.bsky.social. More info: bit.ly/49xJP5m
January 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The deadline is coming up for our CfA for #STSItalia2025: 'Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary' (Panel n.3)! Abstracts due 3rd February 2025. Organized with @susanaaires.bsky.social and @ludovico-rella.bsky.social. More info: bit.ly/49xJP5m
Speaking of Simondon, check out the latest entry in our special issue in AI & Society by @susanaaires.bsky.social, which explores the relevance of Simondon for understanding the functioning and politics of DNNs
Happy to share that my paper "On the individuation of complex computational models: Gilbert Simondon and the technicity of AI" is now available on AI & Society. Thanks to @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social for putting together this special issue!
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s001...
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s001...
December 16, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Speaking of Simondon, check out the latest entry in our special issue in AI & Society by @susanaaires.bsky.social, which explores the relevance of Simondon for understanding the functioning and politics of DNNs
CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me at #STSItalia2025 in Milan next June! Abstracts due 3 February 2025.
For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m
For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m
December 12, 2024 at 1:19 PM
CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me at #STSItalia2025 in Milan next June! Abstracts due 3 February 2025.
For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m
For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m
With input from friends, I’ve made a starter pack of early-career researchers across digital geography, STS, and critical AI studies. It isn’t meant to be definitive or exhaustive (though somewhat arbitrary at this stage), so please feel free to comment your own or others’ names for inclusion!
November 26, 2024 at 12:46 PM
With input from friends, I’ve made a starter pack of early-career researchers across digital geography, STS, and critical AI studies. It isn’t meant to be definitive or exhaustive (though somewhat arbitrary at this stage), so please feel free to comment your own or others’ names for inclusion!
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We are inviting applications for a PhD project on the theme of 'AI geographies of human-animal relations', supervised by
@emmajroe.bsky.social & I in Geography at Uni of Southampton.
Full details re the project, funding options & how to express interest here: www.thomasdekeyser.com/s/AI-geograp...
@emmajroe.bsky.social & I in Geography at Uni of Southampton.
Full details re the project, funding options & how to express interest here: www.thomasdekeyser.com/s/AI-geograp...
November 20, 2024 at 3:42 PM
We are inviting applications for a PhD project on the theme of 'AI geographies of human-animal relations', supervised by
@emmajroe.bsky.social & I in Geography at Uni of Southampton.
Full details re the project, funding options & how to express interest here: www.thomasdekeyser.com/s/AI-geograp...
@emmajroe.bsky.social & I in Geography at Uni of Southampton.
Full details re the project, funding options & how to express interest here: www.thomasdekeyser.com/s/AI-geograp...
As one of the papers I enjoyed reading the most recently, this will be my first (re)post here
The Journal of Continental Philosophy has just published my latest article, “The Computational Search for Unity: Synthesis in Generative AI”.
I address the representational reality of LLMs through the philosophical concept of synthesis.
Online First PDF here:
www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
I address the representational reality of LLMs through the philosophical concept of synthesis.
Online First PDF here:
www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
November 18, 2024 at 7:33 PM
As one of the papers I enjoyed reading the most recently, this will be my first (re)post here