New(-ish) piece from Ray Brassier and Nadia Bou Ali globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/articles/sur...
FT Alphaville meets up with Donald Mackenzie www.ft.com/content/4bed...
Professor Donald MacKenzie talks high-frequency trading
I've got a short provocation in this great new journal, arguing that big tech is as much about spanning across markets as it is about dominating within markets journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
I've got a short provocation in this great new journal, arguing that big tech is as much about spanning across markets as it is about dominating within markets journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
We have 12 new jobs opening up in our department, including a few related to the digital economy: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/085129-...www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/085128-...www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/085091-... Feel free to message me if you want to chat about these.
no joke, temu's ad spending is significantly responsible for big tech's surprisingly good quarter nymag.com/intelligence...
The Department of Political Economy at King’s College London are hiring to a permanent lectureship in Gender and Political Theory. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/083947-...
Job id: 083947. Salary: Grade 6/7: £43,205 to £61,021 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.
Dense, devastating essay on the toll of the Gaza campaign so far. Watching otherwise intelligent, empathic people defend Israel's actions over the last three months has been chilling to me in a way I can't remember with any other news event. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Israeli tactics have little in common with standard counterinsurgency doctrine or rules of engagement. The war on Gaza...
Tech giants are building huge data centers around the world that require a ton of water and energy. The AI boom will only accelerate it, but local opposition is growing. I spoke to @slehuede.bsky.social about a group in Chile that fought a Google data center and why tech’s plans must be challenged.
An interview with Sebastián Lehuedé about a community in Chile that blocked Google
I helped a little bit with the making of UNION, a documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and it premiered on Sunday night at Sundance. three years of filming, hard to believe! cool write up about the premiere if you're curious
The new documentary “Union” goes inside the labor fight inside the behemoth’s Staten Island warehouse: “We are the N.W.A. of the organizing world”