Tiziana Terranova
@synthesiastica.bsky.social
Professor of Cultural Studies, Digital Media and Technopolitics at the University of Naples L'Orientale. Author: Network Culture (2004), After the Internet (2022)
From 02–04 October 2025, our conference «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism» will take place in Zurich.
Across three locations and with contributions by scholars and artists, the conference will analyze today's economies of networked image cultures.
Program & Registration:
Across three locations and with contributions by scholars and artists, the conference will analyze today's economies of networked image cultures.
Program & Registration:
International Conference: «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism»
Bringing together scholars and artists from a range of fields and backgrounds, the international conference «React & Respond» aims to map and analyze these contemporary economies of networked image cu...
digitalculturesandarts.ch
September 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
really informative
I find this essay compelling and one big takeaway is all LLM production is a hallucination and understanding the risk of error is essentially impossible because the set of errors is unbounded.
I wrote a new essay about AI.
This time I'm writing about "The Hallucination Problem"—what it is, why it is, and what there is to be done about it. As usual for my writing on this topic, it's long, but here are the CliffsNotes.
This time I'm writing about "The Hallucination Problem"—what it is, why it is, and what there is to be done about it. As usual for my writing on this topic, it's long, but here are the CliffsNotes.
August 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
really informative
It is always good news when a new issue of this journal is out July 2025 is on Bayes Computational Culture – a journal of software studies share.google/u8wPNGFddcTc...
Computational Culture
a journal of software studies
share.google
August 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
It is always good news when a new issue of this journal is out July 2025 is on Bayes Computational Culture – a journal of software studies share.google/u8wPNGFddcTc...
the lethal loop between surveillance and death in computational systems and AI in particular makes the Palestinian flesh a crucial component of capitalist value extraction, a recursive iteration of a foundational moment...
For Israel to deploy AI-powered deadly force against them, Palestinians must simultaneously be the lives from which surveillance data is captured, and the tabulation of deaths through which the lethality of AI systems is demonstrated and later improved, writes Sarah Fathallah.
Artificial Intelligence and the Orchestration of Palestinian Life and Death | TechPolicy.Press
The tabulation of Palestinian deaths is used to enhance the lethality of the systems targeting them, writes Sarah Fathallah.
www.techpolicy.press
August 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
the lethal loop between surveillance and death in computational systems and AI in particular makes the Palestinian flesh a crucial component of capitalist value extraction, a recursive iteration of a foundational moment...
Intrigued by Leif Weatherby's book Language Machines just out with Minnesota Press reviewed here by Rob Horning #LLM
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Eliza-pilled
About Leif Weatherby's 'Language Machines' and being entertained by "auto-intimacy"
robhorning.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Intrigued by Leif Weatherby's book Language Machines just out with Minnesota Press reviewed here by Rob Horning #LLM
robhorning.substack.com/p/eliza-pill...
robhorning.substack.com/p/eliza-pill...
Thoughtful and inspiring reflections by Ash Sharma on the spirit of Bandung Afro-Asian solidarity as unfinished project and structure of feeling #Bandung #culturalstudies substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Bandung at 70
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference 2025
substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Thoughtful and inspiring reflections by Ash Sharma on the spirit of Bandung Afro-Asian solidarity as unfinished project and structure of feeling #Bandung #culturalstudies substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Palantir is becoming the US government contractor of choice, embodying its idea of government as essentially policing?https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-government-contracting-push/
Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government
Palantir has become one of the few winners in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, offering other contractors a lifeline while consolidating its own reach and power.
www.wired.com
August 6, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Palantir is becoming the US government contractor of choice, embodying its idea of government as essentially policing?https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-government-contracting-push/
Tech giants are lavishing on AI development the kind of capital that would be needed to secure the social and ecological transition necessary to counter the apocalyptic horizon that is looming over the planet and the human species....
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Big tech has spent $155bn on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more
Tech giants have spent more on AI than the US government has on education, jobs and social services in 2025 so far
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Tech giants are lavishing on AI development the kind of capital that would be needed to secure the social and ecological transition necessary to counter the apocalyptic horizon that is looming over the planet and the human species....
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
important work by Martina Tazzioli on technology and migration
Glad to see the article “Which Data Am I?”. The Making of Migrants' Scattered Subjectivities and the Impossibility of Giving an Account of Oneself" now out in International Migration.
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special issue on The Digitized Migration
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special issue on The Digitized Migration
“Which Data Am I?”. The Making of Migrants' Scattered Subjectivities and the Impossibility of Giving an Account of Oneself
This paper interrogates the making of digital subjectivities that stem from the multiple data extractions that migrants experience. It argues that the digitalisation of the border regime does not pro...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
important work by Martina Tazzioli on technology and migration
Over the past 5 years, I have been involved in conversations with Luciana Parisi, Ezekiel Dixon-Roman and Oana Parvan around ideas of recursivity, colonialism and the apocalypse. We just published a short article here #recursivity #CCB #colonialism
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Recursive apocalypse
Abstract. This article posits that the recursive algorithm of apocalypse, including fascism, can be understood as part of the continuous logic of recursive
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July 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Over the past 5 years, I have been involved in conversations with Luciana Parisi, Ezekiel Dixon-Roman and Oana Parvan around ideas of recursivity, colonialism and the apocalypse. We just published a short article here #recursivity #CCB #colonialism
academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-...
academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-...
I feel like I have fallen into a kind of rabbit hole following a reference about Palantir's CEO Alex Karp holding a phd in "neoclassical social science" from Frankfurt University
July 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I feel like I have fallen into a kind of rabbit hole following a reference about Palantir's CEO Alex Karp holding a phd in "neoclassical social science" from Frankfurt University
From Paolo Gerbaudo on the #bigtechdeepstate the ever closer integration of computational capital in the security state infrastructure
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The Big Tech Deep State
Digital technology was sold as a liberating tool that could free individuals from state power. Yet the state security apparatus always had a different view — and now it’s taking back control of its ow...
jacobin.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
From Paolo Gerbaudo on the #bigtechdeepstate the ever closer integration of computational capital in the security state infrastructure
jacobin.com/2025/07/big-...
jacobin.com/2025/07/big-...
got to keep an eye on palantir
June 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
got to keep an eye on palantir
Very appreciative of readings that point in the direction of rethinking tactics against authoritarianism www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We are no longer free. But we can win our freedom back
To meet this moment in US history, we need to revisit the rich – and successful – tradition of nonviolent disruption
www.theguardian.com
June 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Very appreciative of readings that point in the direction of rethinking tactics against authoritarianism www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Tiziana Terranova
Before and After the Internet. We have just published a review of two recent books on #AlgorithmicCulture and #PlatformCapitalism by @striphas.bsky.social and @synthesiastica.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Before and after the internet - Subjectivity
Subjectivity -
link.springer.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Before and After the Internet. We have just published a review of two recent books on #AlgorithmicCulture and #PlatformCapitalism by @striphas.bsky.social and @synthesiastica.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
My solidarity and respect to Alondra Nelson
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
My solidarity and respect to Alondra Nelson
Reposted by Tiziana Terranova
Cassocks are red
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a
May 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Cassocks are red
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a
Conclaves are dope
Wake up babe we got a
Recording of the event with #+972 Magazine on Independent Journalism in Israel Palestine
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DDD - +972 & Local Call
YouTube video by John Cabot University – JCUTV
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April 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Recording of the event with #+972 Magazine on Independent Journalism in Israel Palestine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuWY...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuWY...
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This article by Astra Taylor and Naomi Klein has already been repeatedly shared and commented and deserves to, it pinpoints with sharp focus the traits of the neoreactionary ideology
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
This article by Astra Taylor and Naomi Klein has already been repeatedly shared and commented and deserves to, it pinpoints with sharp focus the traits of the neoreactionary ideology
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
As Director of CRiTT (Transational Technoculture Research Centre) I am happy to share our next two events organized by our John Cabot University and Ca Foscari University nodes #israelpalestine #972magazine #colonialism #criticalanimalstudies #CRiTT #independentjournalism #johncabot #cafoscari
April 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
As Director of CRiTT (Transational Technoculture Research Centre) I am happy to share our next two events organized by our John Cabot University and Ca Foscari University nodes #israelpalestine #972magazine #colonialism #criticalanimalstudies #CRiTT #independentjournalism #johncabot #cafoscari
it will not be forgotten
The Shame of Columbia: violating academic freedom
“Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight because of what its faculty researched or taught.”
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“Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight because of what its faculty researched or taught.”
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The shame of Columbia University
In surrendering to Trump, it's opening all universities to Trump's tyranny
open.substack.com
March 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
it will not be forgotten
there is a lot of untapped potential now out there for organising in ways that stop the reactionary fascist tide of Trump & co
We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.
11,000 people showed up.
Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
11,000 people showed up.
Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
Overflow crowd for Bernie/AOC rally in Greeley, CO — the small one today, big one is in Denver later
March 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
there is a lot of untapped potential now out there for organising in ways that stop the reactionary fascist tide of Trump & co
this is very believable
March 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
this is very believable
CRiTT/DDD event in Rome this week: Tatiana Bazzichelli Female Power and Military Whistleblowing
March 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
CRiTT/DDD event in Rome this week: Tatiana Bazzichelli Female Power and Military Whistleblowing
congratulations @alondra.bsky.social
Deeply honored to receive the 2025 NAACP-Archewell Digital Civil Rights Award. The fight for rights, opportunity, and equity in AI and tech is critical. AI's promise isn't inevitable - it must be actively stewarded to build a digital future that is just and sustainable.
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NAACP Announces Dr. Alondra Nelson as the Recipient of the 2025 NAACP – Archewell Digital Civil Rights Award
naacp.org
February 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
congratulations @alondra.bsky.social