Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one
@velocitygravity.bsky.social
Lecturer in Digital Work, UoStirling.
Researching AI/internet/digital media & expectations/expertise. Hype+Metaphors.
Friends: BRAID UK, UoE STIS, AI Ethics & Society, Data Civics, The New Real.
AE: Technology Analysis and Strategic Management.
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Researching AI/internet/digital media & expectations/expertise. Hype+Metaphors.
Friends: BRAID UK, UoE STIS, AI Ethics & Society, Data Civics, The New Real.
AE: Technology Analysis and Strategic Management.
It/ve/vem👾
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It's been an immense pleasure writing this piece during my close immersion into the worlds of Marx and Bataille. I am grateful to Interregnum's editorial team and Ola Michalec for comments on earlier drafts of this text.
If you are interested in hype as an economic force, this might be for you.
If you are interested in hype as an economic force, this might be for you.
Haven't been on Bluesky for a while, so I am yet to share some highlights from previous weeks.
Here's the 70-minute long interview I gave to the amazing Ian Tennant, honoured to be part of his great channel InnerSense.
We touched on hype, AI, magic, capital, and more...
youtu.be/UR7RU6v3nAs?...
Here's the 70-minute long interview I gave to the amazing Ian Tennant, honoured to be part of his great channel InnerSense.
We touched on hype, AI, magic, capital, and more...
youtu.be/UR7RU6v3nAs?...
October 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Haven't been on Bluesky for a while, so I am yet to share some highlights from previous weeks.
Here's the 70-minute long interview I gave to the amazing Ian Tennant, honoured to be part of his great channel InnerSense.
We touched on hype, AI, magic, capital, and more...
youtu.be/UR7RU6v3nAs?...
Here's the 70-minute long interview I gave to the amazing Ian Tennant, honoured to be part of his great channel InnerSense.
We touched on hype, AI, magic, capital, and more...
youtu.be/UR7RU6v3nAs?...
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Our 2025 workshop series is NOW ONLINE!
Packed with practical know-how to equip Early Career Scholars (and everyone else) with tools that matter & tacit knowledge on key areas of academic work 🔧🧠
Help us get this in front of the right eyes — PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! 🙏📢 www.chstm.org/perspectives...
Packed with practical know-how to equip Early Career Scholars (and everyone else) with tools that matter & tacit knowledge on key areas of academic work 🔧🧠
Help us get this in front of the right eyes — PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! 🙏📢 www.chstm.org/perspectives...
Early Career Scholars Podcasts | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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September 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Our 2025 workshop series is NOW ONLINE!
Packed with practical know-how to equip Early Career Scholars (and everyone else) with tools that matter & tacit knowledge on key areas of academic work 🔧🧠
Help us get this in front of the right eyes — PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! 🙏📢 www.chstm.org/perspectives...
Packed with practical know-how to equip Early Career Scholars (and everyone else) with tools that matter & tacit knowledge on key areas of academic work 🔧🧠
Help us get this in front of the right eyes — PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! 🙏📢 www.chstm.org/perspectives...
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Join us on the 17th of November in the May Day Rooms! @velocitygravity.bsky.social @article19.co.uk @londoniww.bsky.social
#ai #artificialintelligence #opendiscussion #abolishai #futureofai #freeinlondon
#ai #artificialintelligence #opendiscussion #abolishai #futureofai #freeinlondon
Artificial Intelligence: To Participate or to Abolish?
Artificial Intelligence is a threat and a promise; as the world grapples with understanding its prospects and dangers, we invite you to join us in London on the 17th of November for a talk and open di...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Join us on the 17th of November in the May Day Rooms! @velocitygravity.bsky.social @article19.co.uk @londoniww.bsky.social
#ai #artificialintelligence #opendiscussion #abolishai #futureofai #freeinlondon
#ai #artificialintelligence #opendiscussion #abolishai #futureofai #freeinlondon
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For those interested in Samuel Beckett, paradoxes, silent films, and (most of all) humor as a potential analytical tool.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Beckett's Film: A Polycentric Parodic Pictorial Parable For Perennial Paradoxes
PDF | We put forth the proposition that Beckett's Film adroitly parodies Russell's paradox in order to call into question the normative claims of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
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October 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
For those interested in Samuel Beckett, paradoxes, silent films, and (most of all) humor as a potential analytical tool.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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I'm ecstatic that the article I wrote on Douglas Adams is published in Vol.52 Iss.3 of Science Fiction Studies, which is the leading academic journal in its field.
Here's a link to the preprint of said article, i.e., the original accepted MS:
www.academia.edu/144574480/Th...
Here's a link to the preprint of said article, i.e., the original accepted MS:
www.academia.edu/144574480/Th...
The Philosophical Significance of Douglas Adams’s Comic AI Characters
The wit with which Douglas Adams depicts his AI characters constitutes the opposite of “comic relief,” as it corresponds to philosophical assumptions found in misanthropic pessimism. This type of humo...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I'm ecstatic that the article I wrote on Douglas Adams is published in Vol.52 Iss.3 of Science Fiction Studies, which is the leading academic journal in its field.
Here's a link to the preprint of said article, i.e., the original accepted MS:
www.academia.edu/144574480/Th...
Here's a link to the preprint of said article, i.e., the original accepted MS:
www.academia.edu/144574480/Th...
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Very pleased to have contributed to this special issue of the British Educational Research Association blog: 'Reimagining a Just Early Childhood Education and Care Sector'. Julia Manning Morton and I wrote on the Islington Nursery Strike and activism across time.
www.bera.ac.uk/blog/connect...
www.bera.ac.uk/blog/connect...
Connections across time: Activism as a nurturing network
We write as activists, advocates and historians about the ongoing impact of strike action taken by nursery workers 40 years ago and the way activism can nourish the profession. Despite the...
www.bera.ac.uk
September 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Very pleased to have contributed to this special issue of the British Educational Research Association blog: 'Reimagining a Just Early Childhood Education and Care Sector'. Julia Manning Morton and I wrote on the Islington Nursery Strike and activism across time.
www.bera.ac.uk/blog/connect...
www.bera.ac.uk/blog/connect...
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💹 As the political underpinnings of value creation become ever more pressing, Science as Culture is making available free access the commentary "On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation," by Fabian Muniesa, released almost ten years ago.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation
Published in Science as Culture (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2017)
doi.org
September 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
💹 As the political underpinnings of value creation become ever more pressing, Science as Culture is making available free access the commentary "On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation," by Fabian Muniesa, released almost ten years ago.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
Critical AI scholars! Stop anything you're doing. Baudrillard got us covered since 1999.
#ImpossibleExchange
#ImpossibleExchange
September 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Critical AI scholars! Stop anything you're doing. Baudrillard got us covered since 1999.
#ImpossibleExchange
#ImpossibleExchange
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In today's post I take a proposal by Alondra Nelson for AI ELSI as a springboard to reflect on obstacles and opportunities for community engagement with AI makingsciencepublic.com/2025/09/19/p...
Participation at the core: AI, ELSI and community engagement
Alondra Nelson, a sociologist, STS scholar and expert on AI policy and ethics, recently published a letter in Science proposing that artificial intelligence (AI) should adopt the Ethical, Legal, an…
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September 19, 2025 at 6:24 AM
In today's post I take a proposal by Alondra Nelson for AI ELSI as a springboard to reflect on obstacles and opportunities for community engagement with AI makingsciencepublic.com/2025/09/19/p...
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Day 1 of the visit (Weds 17th) concludes with a guest lecture, at 5.30pm, at the Linklater Rooms, University of Aberdeen, by Prof. Matthew J. Smith (UCL), Director of the Centre for the Legacies of British Slavery.
Places to attend in person are available and all welcome bit.ly/3IjbMVj 2/2
Places to attend in person are available and all welcome bit.ly/3IjbMVj 2/2
Slavery, Big Data, and the Cultures of Caribbean Ancestral Histories
Royal Historical Society public lecture at the University of Aberdeen
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September 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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The Nexus Centre Presents: A Roundtable with Dr. Josh Lepawsky on "Mapping the Geographical Imaginations of the 'Tech Right'”
Sep 17, 2025 10:30 AM in Toronto time
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Sep 17, 2025 10:30 AM in Toronto time
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: The Nexus Centre Presents: A Roundtable with Dr. Josh Lepawsky on "Mapping the Geographical Imaginations of the 'Tech Right'”. After registering, you will r...
Dr.Lepawsky (Geography) asks whether the 'Tech Right' are evil geniuses in this one-hour hybrid roundtable discussion.
Angela Carter (CRC, Political Science), Keif Godbout-Kinney (PhD Candidate, Soc...
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September 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The Nexus Centre Presents: A Roundtable with Dr. Josh Lepawsky on "Mapping the Geographical Imaginations of the 'Tech Right'”
Sep 17, 2025 10:30 AM in Toronto time
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Sep 17, 2025 10:30 AM in Toronto time
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Portrait series of my old friend and poet Vaios Fotis, posing as André Breton, 2010. See comments for more.
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Root/Chop version 3.4: Shame on you
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September 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Portrait series of my old friend and poet Vaios Fotis, posing as André Breton, 2010. See comments for more.
flic.kr/p/7y33tu
flic.kr/p/7y33tu
First UG Induction Day talk today with my Programme Director in BA (Hons) Business Studies hat on - opened by playing Dropout Boogie to set up the scene
yourolddroog.bandcamp.com/album/dropou...
yourolddroog.bandcamp.com/album/dropou...
Dropout Boogie, by Your Old Droog & MF DOOM
1 track album
yourolddroog.bandcamp.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
First UG Induction Day talk today with my Programme Director in BA (Hons) Business Studies hat on - opened by playing Dropout Boogie to set up the scene
yourolddroog.bandcamp.com/album/dropou...
yourolddroog.bandcamp.com/album/dropou...
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And that's a wrap! @hypestudies.bsky.social conference over and out! 🫡Thank you so much to all the incredible people who attended.
This is what academia can be 🫶
This is what academia can be 🫶
September 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
And that's a wrap! @hypestudies.bsky.social conference over and out! 🫡Thank you so much to all the incredible people who attended.
This is what academia can be 🫶
This is what academia can be 🫶
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Thought provoking panel on Socio-ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare and Hype. Excellent presentations by Thomas Tsakalakis, Gili Yaron and Violet Petit-Steeghs, Sofie Kronberger, Albina Abzalova, and Roanne van Voorst, Ph.D. who also, masterfully, chaired the session.
September 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Thought provoking panel on Socio-ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare and Hype. Excellent presentations by Thomas Tsakalakis, Gili Yaron and Violet Petit-Steeghs, Sofie Kronberger, Albina Abzalova, and Roanne van Voorst, Ph.D. who also, masterfully, chaired the session.
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Looks like an amazing conference organised by the @hypestudies.bsky.social crew in Barcelona. Great work from @danishanley.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social and many others.@maastrichtu.bsky.social.
Here we go, keynote time @hypestudies.bsky.social conference.
Packed room here and around 50 people tuning in online!
@gemmamilne.bsky.social rocking it, as per. 🔥🔥🔥
Packed room here and around 50 people tuning in online!
@gemmamilne.bsky.social rocking it, as per. 🔥🔥🔥
September 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Looks like an amazing conference organised by the @hypestudies.bsky.social crew in Barcelona. Great work from @danishanley.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social and many others.@maastrichtu.bsky.social.
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@hypestudies.bsky.social hitting the town!
September 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
@hypestudies.bsky.social hitting the town!
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Here we go, keynote time @hypestudies.bsky.social conference.
Packed room here and around 50 people tuning in online!
@gemmamilne.bsky.social rocking it, as per. 🔥🔥🔥
Packed room here and around 50 people tuning in online!
@gemmamilne.bsky.social rocking it, as per. 🔥🔥🔥
September 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Here we go, keynote time @hypestudies.bsky.social conference.
Packed room here and around 50 people tuning in online!
@gemmamilne.bsky.social rocking it, as per. 🔥🔥🔥
Packed room here and around 50 people tuning in online!
@gemmamilne.bsky.social rocking it, as per. 🔥🔥🔥
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💮Keynote time💮
🔥Excited to close the first day of our conference with a talk by the amazing Gemma Milne on 'Hype and the Age of Badness'🔥
Opening by our Dani Shanley!
@gemmamilne.bsky.social
@danishanley.bsky.social
🔥Excited to close the first day of our conference with a talk by the amazing Gemma Milne on 'Hype and the Age of Badness'🔥
Opening by our Dani Shanley!
@gemmamilne.bsky.social
@danishanley.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
💮Keynote time💮
🔥Excited to close the first day of our conference with a talk by the amazing Gemma Milne on 'Hype and the Age of Badness'🔥
Opening by our Dani Shanley!
@gemmamilne.bsky.social
@danishanley.bsky.social
🔥Excited to close the first day of our conference with a talk by the amazing Gemma Milne on 'Hype and the Age of Badness'🔥
Opening by our Dani Shanley!
@gemmamilne.bsky.social
@danishanley.bsky.social
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A very special applause for our group's rising star Isa Luiten! Isa not only presented her amazing work on NewSpace and Hype from her forthcoming Thesis, but is also our tireless research assistant, keeping the Hype Studies group and conference in place. Thank you, Isa!
September 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
A very special applause for our group's rising star Isa Luiten! Isa not only presented her amazing work on NewSpace and Hype from her forthcoming Thesis, but is also our tireless research assistant, keeping the Hype Studies group and conference in place. Thank you, Isa!
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Hosted by Ezequiel Soriano, greetings from our Shitpublishing Workshop! 'Nuff said.
September 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Hosted by Ezequiel Soriano, greetings from our Shitpublishing Workshop! 'Nuff said.
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Fantastic panel today on 'AI Hype: Between Power and Resistance' with amazing contributions by Kat Fuller, @danmk.bsky.social, Tianqi Kou, Dana Calacci, Nasser Eledroos, and Jacek Mańko who also acted as stellar chair, debating power across multiple themes, from anti-trans hype to AGI!
September 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Fantastic panel today on 'AI Hype: Between Power and Resistance' with amazing contributions by Kat Fuller, @danmk.bsky.social, Tianqi Kou, Dana Calacci, Nasser Eledroos, and Jacek Mańko who also acted as stellar chair, debating power across multiple themes, from anti-trans hype to AGI!
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Join the Keynote Talk at the Conference on Hype Studies with Gemma Milne!
📅 September 10, 2025
🕓 17:00 – 18:30 (Barcelona time)
The attendance is free, but prior registration is required via the following link:
📅 September 10, 2025
🕓 17:00 – 18:30 (Barcelona time)
The attendance is free, but prior registration is required via the following link:
September 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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We are most honoured to host our book launch event for Neil Pollock and Robin Williams's deeply anticipated 'After Hype'!
September 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We are most honoured to host our book launch event for Neil Pollock and Robin Williams's deeply anticipated 'After Hype'!