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Luis F. Alvarez Leon

@lfalvarezleon.bsky.social
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Dartmouth Geog | tech&space | chilango in the wild

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Drum beats on: NYT joins Boston Globe, Chronicle of Higher Ed, & Inside Higher Ed in following the terrific reporting of student journalists at @thedartmouth.bsky.social on extensive undisclosed AI use by our provost, a national champion of more AI on campuses. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Dartmouth Provost Is the Latest College Professor Examined for A.I. Use (Gift Article)
Dartmouth said it would investigate its provost over A.I. accusations. Similar controversies on other campuses have prompted frustration among students.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Front page news, Boston Globe: Ivy provost leading charge to infuse AI into higher ed discovered using AI in academic & public work w/out disclosure--an action for which a student could fail a course or worse. Free link: archive.is/JoJbA
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Courtney T. Wittekind @ctwittekind.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Very proud of this piece, and of our writing team
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Julien Migozzi @jmigozzi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A beautiful thing in academia is the chance to meet and learn from smart people across disciplines, and let conversations simmer, allowing ideas to emerge and take shape. This was a great piece to write with a great team. Thanks to @ctwittekind.bsky.social and Elizabeth Resor for leading the charge!
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Courtney T. Wittekind @ctwittekind.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Proofs are off, and reviews are in! City of Speculation: Unsettled Futures in Urban Myanmar will be out in mid-November. I can't wait for you to read it. www.sup.org/books/anthro...
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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Really cool new commentary about the “scam” under digital capitalism @ctwittekind.bsky.social @desireefields.bsky.social @jmigozzi.bsky.social @jovannarosen.bsky.social @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Scams all the way up: The scam as vernacular analytic of digital capitalism 

By Courtney T. Wittekind, Elizabeth Resor, Jovanna Rosen, Hilary Faxon, Kendra Kintzi, Julien Migozzi, Luis F. Alvarez León, and Desiree Fields
 
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Scams have proliferated under digital capitalism; so too have stories of scams and allegations of scamming. In this commentary, we focus on the latter to situate the scam as a “vernacular analytic:” an everyday mode of critique invoked to question the normative systems and institutions that rule our lives, but are experienced as exploitative or rigged. While this vernacular analytic is a powerful and pervasive means to highlight inequality, we argue that it obscures what is unique about scams amid capitalism's digitalization. In response, we develop a systematic approach to study this vernacular analytic as it circulates under digital capitalism. We propose three features of the scam as a vernacular analytic: critique at scale, the fallout of digital mimicry, and the exploitation of affect. This threefold framework provides a common foundation for empowering us to counter inequitable and exploitative systems by reimagining and rebuilding institutions and our trust in them. We argue that recognizing the power and pervasiveness of the scam as a vernacular analytic, and interrogating how scams operate under digital capitalism, are essential steps toward a future less vulnerable to digitally mediated exploitation.
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JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My book AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, out Sept 15, is available for pre-order at againsttecholigarchy.com. It chronicles the rise of tech workers' activism, how they courageously came together to challenge the industry's most powerful bosses, and how their movement changed Silicon Valley forever. 1/
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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
For non- Spanish speakers, this is announcement of the passing of Raúl Pacheco Vega. It doesn’t say when or what happened, but comments on his work and how generous he has been to colleagues not just at his home institution but around the world.
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Burcu Baykurt @baykurt.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
TODAY! If you're in Western Mass, join us -- it will be a great conversation with Sareeta, Timothy, and Jonathan! @umassamherst.bsky.social @sbs-umass.bsky.social
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Burcu Baykurt @baykurt.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I cannot think of a better community than CBI scholars, students, and friends to celebrate the release day of Smart as a City. And it's online so wherever you're in the world, you can join me! @ucpress.bsky.social Details here: cse.umn.edu/cbi/events/s...
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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
For COYOTE, I wrote about hanging out with a bunch of nice geographers during a decidedly terrible time for academia.
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Entanglements Lost: My Day at a Geography Conference in San Francisco
On making friends with maps and Marxists.
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Simone Schneider @simoneschneider.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Exciting news, join us in Cambridge as Caius & Homerton are hiring for yet another Assistant/Associate Prof in Sociology🎉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS875/a...
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Assistant/Associate Professor in Sociology at University of Cambridge
An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant/Associate Professor in Sociology is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Two more days to apply!
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
JOB Assistant Professor of Political Theory University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
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University Assistant Professor in Political Theory
Applications are invited for an Assistant Professor (Grade 9) in political theory, to be based in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. The post will be
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Luis F. Alvarez Leon @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Come work with us at Dartmouth Geography! | Lecturer in Human Geography | Review of applications will begin March 30, 2026 | Apply here -> apply.interfolio.com/182121
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 26/02/2026
Rosie is Ready for Her Forever Home! 🐾💖 Sweet Rosie was found tied up alone in the rain — no food, no water, or home. Thankfully, she’s now safe, warm, and surrounded by love in foster care. She’ll be spayed and fully vaccinated next week and will be ready to start her new life!
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Jovanna Rosen @jovannarosen.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
New article with @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social on the different geographies created by digital capitalism, urbanization, and global production networks
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Jolene Torr @jolenejolene.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Spread the word, friends! I’m excited to share that I'm hiring for TWO roles in marketing at @ucpress.bsky.social. A Marketing Coordinator & a Marketing Manager. Know someone who’d be a great fit? → www.ucpress.edu/about/careers
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:
A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣
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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore.
It happens a lot 'round here.
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Luis F. Alvarez Leon @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Only took 35 years to catch it on the big screen.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie title on the big screen.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
“It is the very ability to locate data on the internet that gives information value and creates markets.” Professor @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social examines how geography shapes digital markets in ‪“The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism.” @ucpress.bsky.social
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Mapping the Digital Economy | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Did you know that University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social has a metric tonne of books #Free2DownloadAndRead in their Open Access page? All available here: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/o...
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Open Access
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Andrea Pollio @andretwp.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Black, magenta and an edge data center on the cover of my book about Nairobi, smartphones, platforms, standards, venture capital and digital China. Out in the boreal fall this year 🪩 with U California Press (and OA)
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Luis F. Alvarez Leon @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Long time listener, first time book talker. Thanks to Stentor Danielson for the invitation to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to discuss #TheMapintheMachine. Shout out to @ucpress.bsky.social! Check out our conversation here: pca.st/episode/66d9...
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Katie J. Wells @katiejwells.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Join us March 5 in DC to discuss what happens when nurses use AI to bid against each other for shifts. @veenadubal.bsky.social @daveyseligman.bsky.social @geoplace.bsky.social @fundaustek.bsky.social & @chenjerai.bsky.social will guide us through the new tech wilderness. Register: lnkd.in/eCsiWVye
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Jessica DiCarlo @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Three-year Visiting Assistant Professor in Geography at Mount Holyoke College. They are looking for a human or physical geographer, and candidates with expertise in critical geography, urban studies, and/or planning are encouraged to apply! mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
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Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 24/02/2025
{ggridges} #RStats #ggplot2
Snowy stairs outside Uppsala University that resembling a ridgeline plot
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Deadline in two days: Guarini Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Politics 2025-27 @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social apply.interfolio.com/160584 (quantitative focus) Please apply and share widely!
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kenny gesserit 🦝 @kennygesserit.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This is nuts lol
Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You
Stop
from the digital-billboards dept.
"In-dash advertising is here and Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler, and Ram, beat everyone to further enshittification," writes longtime Slashdot reader sinij. "Ads can be seen in this video." From a report:
In a move that has left drivers both frustrated and bewildered, Stellantis has introduced full-screen pop-up ads on its infotainment systems. Specifically, Jeep owners have reported being bombarded with advertisements for Mopar's extended warranty
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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Please share this with the coolest, sharpest graduate students in your life!
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Miles MacClure @milesmacclure.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I submitted a FOIA request for every submission for the Illinois state flag competition. Today, I got the files. You have no idea what they're keeping from us.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
New predoc->postdoc at Dartmouth - please share and apply! Guarini Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Politics 2025-27 apply.interfolio.com/160584
new job ad for Guarini Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Politics 2025-27
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Desiree Fields @desireefields.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I am co-organizing some sessions for the Global Conference on Economic Geography (June 2025, Worcester, MA). Please share widely! The first session is: "Technoeconomic Geographies: Imaginaries, Technologies, Epistemologies". docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Call for Papers: Session on Technoeconomic Geographies
Call for Papers: Technoeconomic Geographies: Imaginaries, Technologies, Epistemologies Global Conference on Economic Geography Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts June 4-8, 2025 Session Organi...
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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
They missed cumbia: everything sucks but we’ll party about it nevertheless
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Beth Tellman @socialpixel.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Giving a talk at 9am mt tmrw on the political economy of remote sensing with @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social Ufuoma Ovienmhada and Lisa Parks! Link to join below bigdatasoc.blogspot.com/2024/09/bd-2...
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BD&S 2024 Online Colloquium: POLITICS, POWER AND DATA
This year’s Big Data & Society colloquium centers on the theme of "Politics, Power, and Data," exploring the complex intersections where dat...
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 20/11/2024
For the new followers: I write THE TECH BUBBLE, a newsletter abt the political econ of tech: open.substack.com/pub/thetechb... I co-host THIS MACHINE KILLS, a Luddite podcast analyzing our tech ecosystem (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...) I write about tech/labor/finance: www.edwardongweso.com
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The Tech Bubble | Edward Ongweso Jr | Substack
Dispatches on technology and its political economy. Click to read The Tech Bubble, by Edward Ongweso Jr, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Luis F. Alvarez Leon @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Euros of Hollywood TV show
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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Max Shrek
A still from Nosferatu with Shrek's head photoshopped onto Count Orlok
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Luis F. Alvarez Leon @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Send us your abstracts! AAG 2025 CFP: Technology, Power, and the City: Reconnecting the Dots in Turbulent Times Full CfP below: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6wjoz...
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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 19/06/2024
Excited our paper "The Ground Rent Machine" is out, which tells the story of racial dispossession thru a little known legal mechanism in Baltimore: ground rent. A dream to collaborate with Jason Jurjevich, engage in crit quant, and decline-as-urbanization. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Ground Rent Machine: The Story of Race, Housing Inequality, and Dispossession in Baltimore, Maryland
In Baltimore, Maryland, more than 55,000 homes—roughly 30 percent of all residential plots—are subject to ground rent, a legacy of British feudal property law. Under this landlord–tenant system, th...
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Luis F. Alvarez Leon @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social · 17/06/2024
It’s official.
Dear Luis:
I am pleased to confirm that the Board of Trustees approved the recommendation made by
President Beilock, in consultation with the Committee Advisory to the President, that you be
promoted to Associate Professor of Geography, with tenure, effective July 1, 2024.
Please accept my sincere congratulations.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth F. Smith
lrt
c: Associate Dean John Carey
Xun Shi, Department Chair
Arts and Sciences Finance Center¡GRACIAS TOTALES!
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Luis F. Alvarez Leon @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
#TheMapInTheMachine featured in the Campaign for the American Reader. americareads.blogspot.com/2024/06/pg-9... See the companion “Page 99 Test” essay I wrote. page99test.blogspot.com/2024/06/luis... Reach out for review copies, or buy one from @ucpress.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...
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Luis Felipe Alvarez León's "The Map in the Machine"
Luis Felipe Alvarez León is Assistant Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College. He researches the political economy of geospatial data, ...
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Luis F. Alvarez Leon @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
The very idea of land is in continuous transformation. How does the creation of ‘virtual land’ in the Metaverse perpetuate or challenge the role of land in (digital) capitalism? Some answers from @jovannarosen.bsky.social and I, in @societyandspace.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Land, reconfigured: Defying the laws of physics, upholding the rules of the market in the metaverse
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Luis F. Alvarez Leon @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social · 06/05/2024
Perfect opportunity to order #TheMapInTheMachine! www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...
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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
This commentary contributes to the Geo open collection 'Climate Change, AI and Sustainability' led by Mark Maslin, @jamesgyke.bsky.social, Eric Nost, Ruth Machen, Jenny Goldstein & @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social. Get in touch to contribute to the theme ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2054...
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Geo: Geography and Environment
Geo: Geography and Environment is an open access environmental geography journal publishing original articles in geography, sustainability & environmental science.
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