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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Non-human nature enters policy making in many different ways - but too often only what can be measured, priced, or standardised receives institutional weight. Read the new Opinion of The European Group on Ethics’ (EGE) 👇

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Join us today at 5pm at @univie.ac.at to launch the new book by Koen Bartels & @hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social: "Doing Interpretive Research: Learning and Teaching Imagination in Interpretive Research" (OUP). Emma Dowling and Yuki Seidler will comment. Registration: www.eventbrite.at/e/book-launc...

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Book Launch

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Centre for Deliberative Democracy @deldemucan.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🔔 New Book Alert 🔔 Congratulations to our Centre's Adjunct Professor ‪@hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social‬ on his new book, with Oxford University Press, co-authored with Koen Bartels 🙌 You can pre-order the book using the discount code in the image: lnkd.in/gq4KqjMw Congratulations, Hendrik and Koen!

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Hendrik Wagenaar @hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

This article was published earlier this year but I feel that after the inspirational victory of Mamdani as mayor of NYC (as a positive example) and the disappointing results of the Dutch parliamentary elections (as a negative one), it only gained in urgency and relevance.

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Hendrik Wagenaar @hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

For those who read German: in this Op Ed in the Austrian daily Der Standard, Barbara Prainsack and I discuss the negative influence on democracy of companies’ lack of accountability through AI. We all share similar experiences but we think of them as private worries and not public threats.

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Hendrik Wagenaar @hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Das stimmt so nicht: Der Ausdruck „stochastic parrots“ (stochastische Papageien) stammt von Emily M. Bender et al – als kritische Bezeichnung für große Sprachmodelle. Hier ist der direkte Link zur Veröffentlichung: s10251.pcdn.co/pdf/2021-ben...

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

How do digital practices shape democratic values and processes? Today, the 'Democracies in Digital Societies' group at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) met to work on our first paper, 'What is Digital Hybridisation?' Stay tuned for updates! More about our work: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/members/c...

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Big thanks to all the colleagues who contributed, including @astridmager.bsky.social @hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social@nikolausf.substack.com @asmeincke.bsky.social @leonido.bsky.social @riederb.bsky.social

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Join us at the @univie.ac.at event at #EXPO2025 in Osaka! 🗓️ May 28, 15:00–20:30 JST 📍 Austrian Pavilion, “Empowering Lives” Zone 🌍 From planetary health to democracy & molecular innovation — and on how empires were built with music Info & registration: international.univie.ac.at/en/cooperati...

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Registration – Building Futures

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

1. @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans and myself have a new piece in Science on "AI" Large Models, pushing back against much of the collective wisdom about what they can and can't do. Official below, unpaywalled at henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod... . So why this now?

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Large AI models are cultural and social technologies

Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Curtis Yarvin, a close ally of Peter Thiel, recently declared that the system is “irreparable,” that “To capture an elite, you have to demolish its institutions,” & that “Every existing institution of science, outside the scientists & the labs themselves, must be fully cremated…” 1/

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Barbarians and mandarins

"As soon as it stops accelerating, it stalls and explodes."

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Hendrik Wagenaar @hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I wrote a piece on America’s descent into authoritarianism and the role of the tech oligarchs in it: medium.com/@hendrik.wag... I am particularly indebted to @gilduran.com’s invaluable reporting on the murky, dangerous world of the tech barons

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Are we Entering the Age of Cyber-Fascism?

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Barbara Prainsack @bprainsack.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

My partner spent the last weeks researching the ideologies of tech oligarchs. Here’s his take on what is going on in the US and beyond: medium.com/@hendrik.wag... @hendrikwagenaar.bsky.social

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Are we Entering the Age of Cyber-Fascism?

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