Sunil Manghani
@manghani.bsky.social
Managing Editor, Theory, Culture & Society | Co-Editor, Journal of Visual Art Practice | Professor, University of Southampton; Research Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute | https://linktr.ee/manghani
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Sunil Manghani
@manghani.bsky.social
· Mar 10
The left needs its own version of techno-optimism | Amana Fontanella-Khan
We live in dark, depressing and – frankly – terrifying times. Will technology push us over the edge or help us exit our many crises?
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New series @theguardian.com, opening with ‘The left needs its own version of techno-optimism’ by Amana Fontanella-Khan | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Forthcoming double special issue of #JournalofVisualArtPractice: 'Between Hawaiki Nui and the Liquid Continent' (forthcoming, Vol. 24, 1-2). Find out more... www.linkedin.com/pulse/spring...
March 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Forthcoming double special issue of #JournalofVisualArtPractice: 'Between Hawaiki Nui and the Liquid Continent' (forthcoming, Vol. 24, 1-2). Find out more... www.linkedin.com/pulse/spring...
Where has the left’s technological audacity gone? | Leigh Phillips @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... (Consider Postcapitalism @paulmason.bsky.social)
Where has the left’s technological audacity gone? | Leigh Phillips
The belief that technology will usher in a golden age for humanity is in vogue once more with billionaires. But can the left offer its own vision for the future?
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March 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Where has the left’s technological audacity gone? | Leigh Phillips @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... (Consider Postcapitalism @paulmason.bsky.social)
‘The big idea’ @theguardian.com: ‘Should we abolish #art?’ by Morgan Falconer (…not as bad as it sounds!) | www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
The big idea: should we abolish art?
Down with expensive trophies at art fairs: it’s time to reclaim a more radical vision of creativity
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March 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
‘The big idea’ @theguardian.com: ‘Should we abolish #art?’ by Morgan Falconer (…not as bad as it sounds!) | www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
New series @theguardian.com, opening with ‘The left needs its own version of techno-optimism’ by Amana Fontanella-Khan | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The left needs its own version of techno-optimism | Amana Fontanella-Khan
We live in dark, depressing and – frankly – terrifying times. Will technology push us over the edge or help us exit our many crises?
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
New series @theguardian.com, opening with ‘The left needs its own version of techno-optimism’ by Amana Fontanella-Khan | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
(Obviously) Deepfake as satire: World Leaders Sing 'We Are the World': youtu.be/knDb9VfYdHw - but like most satire it’s mere entertainment.
🌍 World Leaders Sing 'We Are the World' (AI-Generated) 🎶 | Powerful Message of Unity & Hope
YouTube video by The Water Studio
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March 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
(Obviously) Deepfake as satire: World Leaders Sing 'We Are the World': youtu.be/knDb9VfYdHw - but like most satire it’s mere entertainment.
Achille Mbembe and Ruth Wilson Gilmore write @theguardian.com ‘Trump’s attacks on South Africa are a punishment for independence’: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s attacks on South Africa are a punishment for independence | Achille Mbembe and Ruth Wilson Gilmore
The US president’s cuts to health funding could lead to half a million deaths. They’re part of a strategy to condemn and isolate the country
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March 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Achille Mbembe and Ruth Wilson Gilmore write @theguardian.com ‘Trump’s attacks on South Africa are a punishment for independence’: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While AI seems to be the big story in tech, arguably it’s not. Rather it is #Quantum #Computing: www.linkedin.com/posts/mangha...
Sunil Manghani on LinkedIn: Quantum Life, but not as we know it
While AI seems to be the big story in tech, arguably it’s not. Rather it is #Quantum #Computing. The Wall Street Journal’s headline captures the problem:…
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February 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
While AI seems to be the big story in tech, arguably it’s not. Rather it is #Quantum #Computing: www.linkedin.com/posts/mangha...
Possibly getting ahead of ourselves... 'Artificial intelligence systems capable of feelings or self-awareness are at risk of being harmed' @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI systems could be ‘caused to suffer’ if consciousness achieved, says research
Experts and thinkers signed open letter expressing concern over irresponsible development of technology
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February 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Possibly getting ahead of ourselves... 'Artificial intelligence systems capable of feelings or self-awareness are at risk of being harmed' @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Visited O.P. Jindal Global University s Constitution Museum; established as part of the 75th-anniversary celebrations of India’s foundational document. One exhibit allows your own image to be seamlessly incorporated into a historical photograph…
February 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Visited O.P. Jindal Global University s Constitution Museum; established as part of the 75th-anniversary celebrations of India’s foundational document. One exhibit allows your own image to be seamlessly incorporated into a historical photograph…
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Everyone is talking about DeepSeek's impact on industry. But another huge impact is the leveling of playing field between academia and industry: if these efficiency numbers bear out, then academia can both use LLMs and study/research them at scale!
January 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Everyone is talking about DeepSeek's impact on industry. But another huge impact is the leveling of playing field between academia and industry: if these efficiency numbers bear out, then academia can both use LLMs and study/research them at scale!
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Paris friends, next Monday (Jan 27), you can catch me and Théo Lepage-Richer talking about neural networks at the Social History of Informatics Seminar organized by , drawing upon our book, 'Neural Networks' (@uminnpress.bsky.social and meson press, 2024), co-authored with Lucy Suchman.
January 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Paris friends, next Monday (Jan 27), you can catch me and Théo Lepage-Richer talking about neural networks at the Social History of Informatics Seminar organized by , drawing upon our book, 'Neural Networks' (@uminnpress.bsky.social and meson press, 2024), co-authored with Lucy Suchman.
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A short piece on Emile Benveniste and the Linguistic Circle of Prague, his relation with Nicolai Trubetzkoy and Roman Jakobson, and including a brief report of his 1937 lecture to the Circle, translated from the Czech by @johnraimo.bsky.social
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Benveniste and the Linguistic Circle of Prague
There are some good histories of the Linguistic Circle of Prague, which met in the years before the Second World War, and which included Russian scholars as well as ones from Czechoslovakia. J…
progressivegeographies.com
January 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
A short piece on Emile Benveniste and the Linguistic Circle of Prague, his relation with Nicolai Trubetzkoy and Roman Jakobson, and including a brief report of his 1937 lecture to the Circle, translated from the Czech by @johnraimo.bsky.social
progressivegeographies.com/2025/01/19/b...
progressivegeographies.com/2025/01/19/b...
‘What people like Elon Musk want,’ @garyseconomics.bsky.social, ‘is for you guys all to be in this squid game … you need to change the game.’ Further sense of a shift to feudalism and of a broken global as well as local system…
January 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
‘What people like Elon Musk want,’ @garyseconomics.bsky.social, ‘is for you guys all to be in this squid game … you need to change the game.’ Further sense of a shift to feudalism and of a broken global as well as local system…
Thinking of using AI to solve a problem? A publication from The Alan Turing Institute sets out 8 questions you need to ask: www.turing.ac.uk/blog/thinkin...
Thinking of using AI to solve a problem? Here are eight questions you need to ask first
A guide for decision-makers looking to procure AI tools in government or business
www.turing.ac.uk
January 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Thinking of using AI to solve a problem? A publication from The Alan Turing Institute sets out 8 questions you need to ask: www.turing.ac.uk/blog/thinkin...
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A short post on what we know, and what we don’t know, about Michel Foucault’s 1972 visit to Cornell University progressivegeographies.com/2025/01/12/f...
Foucault’s 1972 visit to Cornell University
For his initial trips to the United States, Michel Foucault was often invited by French departments. His visits to SUNY Buffalo in 1970 and 1972, and the first of his multiple visits to the Univers…
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January 12, 2025 at 9:46 AM
A short post on what we know, and what we don’t know, about Michel Foucault’s 1972 visit to Cornell University progressivegeographies.com/2025/01/12/f...
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shameless plug: I've got a chapter in this edited volume on feminist AI, with oxford university press: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
January 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
shameless plug: I've got a chapter in this edited volume on feminist AI, with oxford university press: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
‘The AI-Copyright Trap’: Carys J. Craig argues copyright overreach ‘will satisfy the wants of a small group of powerful stakeholders [… while] poised to harm the interests of the more vulnerable actors who are, perhaps, most naturally drawn to it’. | papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The AI-Copyright Trap
As AI tools proliferate, policy makers are increasingly being called upon to protect creators and the cultural industries from the extractive, exploitative, and
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January 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
‘The AI-Copyright Trap’: Carys J. Craig argues copyright overreach ‘will satisfy the wants of a small group of powerful stakeholders [… while] poised to harm the interests of the more vulnerable actors who are, perhaps, most naturally drawn to it’. | papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Books received from Routledge in recompense for review work; and some second-hand ones by Philippe Ariès, and about Linear B and the Prague Linguistic Circle. Most of these relate to my Mapping Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France project.
progressivegeographies.com/2025/01/04/b...
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Books received – Grant, Littleton, François, Bold & Clayton, Nobus, Ariès, Linear B and the Prague Linguistic Circle
Some books received in recompense for review work… … and some second-hand ones – a couple by Philippe Ariès, some about the decipherment of Linear B, and about the Prague Linguist…
progressivegeographies.com
January 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Books received from Routledge in recompense for review work; and some second-hand ones by Philippe Ariès, and about Linear B and the Prague Linguistic Circle. Most of these relate to my Mapping Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France project.
progressivegeographies.com/2025/01/04/b...
progressivegeographies.com/2025/01/04/b...
New article: ‘Quantum Life, but not as we know it’: do we have the imagination for it? Inspired by report in yesterday’s @newscientist.bsky.social on quantum sensor built from a glowing protein found in bioluminescent jellyfish. | medium.com/electronic-l...
January 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
New article: ‘Quantum Life, but not as we know it’: do we have the imagination for it? Inspired by report in yesterday’s @newscientist.bsky.social on quantum sensor built from a glowing protein found in bioluminescent jellyfish. | medium.com/electronic-l...
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What's possible when AI understands what you're seeing, not just what you're saying? If voice was the breakout feature of 2024, I'm predicting it will be vision that takes center stage in 2025. More predictions from me & some great company: www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/is...
Happy New Year! Hopes For 2025 With Mustafa Suleyman, Audrey Tang, Albert Gu, Hanno Basse, and more...
The Batch AI News and Insights: Despite having worked on AI since I was a teenager, I’m now more excited than ever about what we can do with it...
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January 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
What's possible when AI understands what you're seeing, not just what you're saying? If voice was the breakout feature of 2024, I'm predicting it will be vision that takes center stage in 2025. More predictions from me & some great company: www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/is...
Crow in Tokyo. Winter sign of something more? Barthes no longer here.
January 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Crow in Tokyo. Winter sign of something more? Barthes no longer here.
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Online First: Mike Featherstone introduces and contextualizes a set of papers exploring the connections between the public sphere, the post-university and the scholarly apparatus. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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January 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Online First: Mike Featherstone introduces and contextualizes a set of papers exploring the connections between the public sphere, the post-university and the scholarly apparatus. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Sunil Manghani
ICYMI: Michel Foucault, Jonathan Simon and Stuart Elden, 'Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon' - discusses Foucault’s 1977 lecture ‘About the Concept of the “Dangerous Individual” in 19th-Century Legal Psychiatry’. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon - Michel Foucault, Jonathan Simon, Stuart Elden, 2017
This article is a transcript of a conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon in San Francisco in October 1983. It has never previously been publish...
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January 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
ICYMI: Michel Foucault, Jonathan Simon and Stuart Elden, 'Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon' - discusses Foucault’s 1977 lecture ‘About the Concept of the “Dangerous Individual” in 19th-Century Legal Psychiatry’. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Coffe & Garage Night?
I’m not usually a new year’s resolution person, but I think that’s just because the most popular ones often feel more like work than fun. Changed things up a bit this year & Copilot really committed to my ask for “unusual” ideas. I think I have a coffee journal in my future?
Give it a try.
Give it a try.
January 2, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Coffe & Garage Night?