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Urban geographer and digital media scholar @PoliMi | Associate editor AI & Society

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Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
After a shamefully long (entirely my fault) review process, finally out in the world "What the Edge Tells the Cloud: Decentralized Geographies of AI" t.co/N8bLysoCIr Our focus on AI has been on algorithms that are mostly cloud-based and taken as a self-enclosed computational unit.
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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Last June, @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social, and I organised a panel on “Simondon and AI” at the 10th STS Italia Conference. We’ve now published a short report for 4S Backchannels, reflecting on key themes that emerged from our two sessions: 4sonline.org/news_manager...
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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
So happy to have @profgillian.bsky.social (alongside other great speakers) joining this workshop on ‘Techno-geographies of AI’ in Milan on Friday 27 March. Co-organised with @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and Darío Negueruela del Castillo. @fabianlferrari.bsky.social
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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I'm pleased to share my contribution to @politicalgeography.bsky.social's AI forum: "The Latent Subject: AI, Recognition, and the Politics of Latent Space": www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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....
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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...
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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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....
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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Looks fascinating - via @vgoujon.bsky.social : journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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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 ...
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Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
✨ 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
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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...
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Paolo Bory @paolobory.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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...
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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...
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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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...
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Darwin in the machine: addressing algorithmic individuation through evolutionary narratives in computing - AI & SOCIETY
This paper examines the application of evolutionary analogy in AI (artificial intelligence) research, focussing on narratives that perpetuate individuated and autonomous imaginaries of AI systems thro...
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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
"Digital Technologies for Sustainable Futures: Promises and Pitfalls" (Certomà, Iapaolo, Martellozzo, eds.), published last year by Routledge: bit.ly/4cxnwxz
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 04/02/2025
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.
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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The deadline in next Monday, 3 February @susanaaires.bsky.social @ludovico-rella.bsky.social
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Casey Lynch @casey-lynch.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
@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
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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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
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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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!
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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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
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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
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
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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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
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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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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Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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...
Image of sheep with text: AI Geographies of Human-Animal Relations
How are Artificial Intelligence technologies (re)shaping human-animals relations across a range of spheres, including consumption, entertainment, domestication, conservation, farming, research and resource extraction?
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Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org · 19/11/2024
It's been a while but finally this fantastic book is out in the world, and it's open access: unlearn.gestaltung.ai. If you like, check out my slightly provocative contribution "Five Theses on the End of AI Art" here: unlearn.gestaltung.ai/article/pj83...
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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
As one of the papers I enjoyed reading the most recently, this will be my first (re)post here
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