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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 26/05/2026

Call for Papers from Du Bois Review - Call for Papers: Affirmative Action, DEI, and the Future of Racial Justice in Higher Education - cup.org/4tk2RVl

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Sidebar by Courthouse News @sidebarcns.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

@nassimparvin.bsky.social spoke with Kirk McDaniel about categorizing driverless vehicles and how they could be weaponized by non-democratic governments. Full Sidebar by @courthousenews.bsky.social episode: youtu.be/Li5J5qt-6II?...

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Erin McElroy @erinmcel.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

"Siliconization, technofascism, and their unbecomings" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... Thanks to Kavita Dattani, Manissa Maharawal, Daniela Rosner, @nassimparvin.bsky.social, @profgillian.bsky.social and @michelelancione.bsky.social @societyandspace.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

In this response essay, I reflect upon how some of the central themes of my book Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times (Duke University Press, 2024) speak to the contemporary technofascist moment, as well as ongoing practices of attempting to de–siliconize the future. I also offer fascist transformations currently transpiring on both sides of the former Iron Curtain, as well as the landscapes of gentrification upon which they take place, a deeper and transnational genealogy–one rooted in historic technologies of racial banishment, heteromasculinism, and anticommunism. At the same time, I celebrate the ongoing freedom struggles against fascism, racial banishment, and genocidal technologies that organizers in both the United States and Romania continue to commit themselves to, all in an interconnected effort to unbecome Silicon Valley. Throughout this essay, I engage with the insightful comments made by Kavita Dattani, Michele Lancione, Manissa M. Maharawal, Nassim Parvin, Gillian Rose, and Daniela Rosner here, each of whom offer brilliant interventions and generous reflections in this forum.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

We are proud to introduce our new Native and Indigenous Studies e-book collection, available to libraries and institutions, bringing together 130 interdisciplinary titles by Indigenous scholars and community-centered researchers. Browse the collection and request a free trial: buff.ly/odzH2Zx

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Good news: not just one open job, but two! Both are postdocs in philosophy of science/ML working with my @technomoralfutures.bsky.social co-Director Dr Emily Sullivan on issues in ML scientific understanding and explanation. Ads for a 3 year post and 2 year post are linked below, apply by 20 April

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The Philosophy Department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking a full time, fixed term Postdoctoral Research Associate. This post is available from May 2026.

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Congratulations to Bruce Robbins for Atrocity: A Literary History winning the 2026 René Wellek Prize! Prize sponsored by the #ACLA Exploring literary representations of mass violence, Bruce Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atrocity ow.ly/E28F50Yonvh

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

"the broader narrative that treats the machine as inherently superior and places blame on citizens is anything but accidental."

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The African American, African, and Black Diaspora Studies e-book collection for libraries includes 636 titles that span the humanities and social sciences, covering history, religion, literature, art, music, anthropology, sociology, and more. Browse the collection:

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The African American, African, and Black Diaspora Studies e-book collection includes 636 titles that span the humanities and social sciences, covering history, religion, literature, art, music,…

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University of Washington Information School @ischool.uw.edu · 20/02/2026

"The stories we tell about technology shape our cities and our civic future," writes Nassim Parvin in a @seattletimes.com op-ed on pedestrian safety in the context of driverless cars proliferating. @nassimparvin.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/opinion/driv...

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Why do we keep changing things for cars instead of people? | Op-Ed

Narrative around technology such as driverless cars continues the portrayal of pedestrians and cyclists as impediments rather than people who share the roads.

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I'm co-hosting a new BBC podcast! It's called The Interface, and it's all about how tech is rewiring your week and your world. www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

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University of Washington Information School @ischool.uw.edu · 15/01/2026

Nassim Parvin @nassimparvin.bsky.social will speak about "Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen" at this upcoming @labortechresearchnetwork.org event on Jan. 23: Information and registration: labortechresearchnetwork.org/speaker-series

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In this talk, Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin will discuss their recent book and edited volume, Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, published by Duke University Press in May 2025. New and emerging technologies, especially ones that infiltrate intimate spaces, relations, homes, and bodies, are often referred to as creepy in media and political discourses. The book introduces a feminist theory of creep that they substantiate through critical engagement with smart homes, smart dust, smart desires, and smart forests toward dreams of feminist futures. Contributing authors further illuminate what is otherwise obscured, assumed, or dismissed in characterizations of technology as creepy or creeping. Considering diverse technologies such as border surveillance and China’s credit system to sexcams and home assistants, the volume’s essays and artworks demonstrate that the potentials and pitfalls of artificial intelligence and digital and robotic technologies cannot be assessed through binaries of seeing/being seen, privacy/surveillance, or harmful/useful."

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

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University of Washington Information School @ischool.uw.edu · 20/10/2025

In conversation tomorrow: Olivia Banner and Nassim Parvin @nassimparvin.bsky.social. Oct. 21, 1 p.m. PT, on campus and virtual. Held on the publication day of Banner’s new book, "Crip Screens: Countering Psychiatric Media Technologies" (@dukepress.bsky.social). depts.washington.edu/societytech/...

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Event date: TUESDAY OCT 21, 2025 1-2:15PM @ SIMPSON CENTER, HYBRID, IN CMU 202 AND ONLINE. SIMPSON CENTER for the HUMANITIES CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ON ACCESSIBLE TECHNOLOGY AND EXPERIENCES.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 07/10/2025

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Nassim Parvin @nassimparvin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

My co-author Neda Atanasoski and I will be in Michigan (myumi.ch/R3N28) next week, discussing our recent book Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, published by Duke University Press. Join us if you are around!

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Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studie @wgss-umd.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Something (techno)creepy this way comes👻. Join us Wed October 8 @ 4 PM to celebrate the release of Neda Atanasoski and @nassimparvin.bsky.social 's book Technocreep and the Politics of Things Unseen from @dukepress.bsky.social. RSVP at go.umd.edu/technocreep 🌈🎓 #academicsky #CriticalEthnicStudies

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University of Washington Information School @ischool.uw.edu · 15/09/2025

Planning to apply to our master's or Ph.D. programs? If you are preparing to take the TOEFL exam and would like a discount code, contact Admissions Director Christine Noyes-Williams via LinkedIn message or email by Oct. 20 for a code. And good luck - you've got this! ischool.uw.edu/programs/phd...

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Ph.D. Admissions Overview

Admissions timeline, basic requirements and what's required to apply to the iSchool's Ph.D. program.

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University of Washington Information School @ischool.uw.edu · 11/09/2025

💜 Special iSchool 25th anniversary question for our alumni 💜 Tell us about your favorite iSchool professor. How did they affect you? Your responses could appear in the next edition of iNews, our alumni magazine. Comment below or fill out our alumni survey with your answers! bit.ly/ischalumnisu...

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Courtney Berger @ccberg.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Nassim Parvin and Neda Atanasoski with their fabulous new book Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen. 💖 #4S2025 @dukepress.bsky.social @nassimparvin.bsky.social

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Erin McElroy @erinmcel.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Join us in Seattle 9/2 at Elliot Bay Books for the release of Technocreep! @nassimparvin.bsky.social www.elliottbaybook.com/events/47682

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University of Washington Information School @ischool.uw.edu · 26/08/2025

Parvin and Atanasoski's Seattle book launch will be on Sept. 2 at Elliott Bay Book Company at 7 p.m. The authors will present and discuss "Technocreep" alongside five of the contributing authors and artists. @nassimparvin.bsky.social www.elliottbaybook.com/events/47682

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The Comedy of Computation is out! In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. www.sup.org/books/li... #ReadUP

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

In The Global Journey of Racism, Michelle Christian provides a unified narrative of how the world's racial hierarchies came to be. "Michelle Christian's book is a foundational text...It is destined to be an impactful and well-cited book." —Jean Beaman, CUNY Graduate Center www.sup.org/books/so...

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The Good Robot Podcast @goodrobotpod.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

New episode! In this fantastic episode we talk to Nassim Parvin and Neda Atanasoski about their new book Technocreep: The Politics of Things Unseen 👀 Watch now on YouTube or stream on Apple, Spotify and more! 🤩 Watch us on YouTube: youtu.be/ScKSG9VjqxY

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Nassim Parvin @nassimparvin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

CFP on under-explored & novel feminist methods & interventions on AI ethics for the Special Issue of Australian Feminist Studies, co-edited by Eleanor Drage, Jennifer Rhee, & myself. We welcome traditional research articles alongside artistic & experimental ones across the globe. shorturl.at/Kd4Wl

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Why public sector investment in basic research and innovation is irreplaceable ⤵️

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beth semel @bethmsemel.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

excited to get my hands on a copy of @nassimparvin.bsky.social and Neda Atanasoski's new (and very good looking) @dukepress.bsky.social book, Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen. i've got a chapter in there offering some preliminary thoughts on transductive labor in vocal biomarker AI

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I'm holding the book Technocreep open to Chapter 10, by me! The chapter is entitlted Resistant Resonances: Vocal Biomarkers, Transductive Labor, and the Politics of Things Not Heard. My left hand is partially covering the chapter's text to help hold the book open.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

DUP authors, if you have any readings or talks (except conference panels) in June, please let us know so we can share them! Email Laura at lsell@duke.edu

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Nassim Parvin @nassimparvin.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I'm thrilled to announce that Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, co-authored and co-edited with my amazing collaborator Neda Atanasoski, is officially out now from Duke University Press! You can download the first chapter and buy the book here: www.dukeupress.edu/technocreep-...

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

“Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.”

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Emma Burnell @emmaburnell.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

This week's newsletter is on why the 'Island of Strangers' phrase was damaging, even if you broadly support the measures in the Immigration White Paper. And how communication is not just a string of sentences, but a way we cohere, as a society and as a political project.

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On language, immigration and cohesion

Language matters. Cohesion matters. Language that obscures is incoherent.

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Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It’s publication day for Ideas on Fire authors Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin @nassimparvin.bsky.social! Their book Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen is out now from @dukepress.bsky.social. www.dukeupress.edu/technocreep-... #IoFAuthors

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

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Erin McElroy @erinmcel.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Tomorrow in the South Bay for those around @dukepress.bsky.social

Silicon Valley Imperialism Reading Group. Book talk May 12 12-1:30pm

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Congrats to @nassimparvin.bsky.social and Neda Atanasoski on their new @dukepress.bsky.social book, Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen Excited to finally have my little piece about pregnancy tracking apps and histories of DIY feminist care out in the world

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Chapter 8: Tracking for Two: Surveillance and Self-Care in Pregnancy Apps

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The Good Robot Podcast @goodrobotpod.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Co-host Eleanor Drage has released a call for papers on the topic of underexplored and novel feminist methods and interventions on AI ethics. This special Issue (SI) of Australian Feminist Studies explores insights on AI beyond the mainstream. Academics - please share widely! shorturl.at/Kd4Wl

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Feminist Methods and Interventions on AI Ethics.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Save 30% #NewBook "Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen," edited by Neda Atanasoski & @nassimparvin.bsky.social , which captures the ambivalence of new and emerging technologies that provoke a sense of creep. #TechnologyStudies #CulturalStudies buff.ly/gCDoq6G

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Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studie @wgss-umd.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Have you heard? WGSS Chair Dr. Neda Atanasoski and @nassimparvin.bsky.social's new edited volume "Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen" is out now! Make sure to check out this beautiful, full color book! #academicsky #CulturalStudies #CriticalEthnicStudies #UniversityofMaryland

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

“ChatGPT may be the White House’s latest economic advisor.” — magical thinking sbout “genius “ oligarch con men meets magical thinking about the “intelligence” of LLMs —> global financial catastrophe

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The contributors to "Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen," edited by Neda Atanasoski & @nassimparvin.bsky.social , capture the ambivalence of new and emerging technologies that provoke a sense of creep. #CulturalStudies #CriticalEthnicStudies buff.ly/fpyRyYE

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James Sims @simsjames.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

“My job as a leader of the university is to speak up for the values that we claim to believe in, especially when they’re at odds with people with enormous power.” — Wesleyan University’s President Michael Roth in @newyorker.com (proud to have him continually and publicly defending #HigherEd)

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A University President Makes a Case Against Cowardice

The Trump Administration wants to punish schools for student activism. Michael Roth, of Wesleyan, argues that colleges don’t have to roll over.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Thank you for sharing news of our initiative... we are an interdisciplinary team of researchers from U of Maryland, UPenn, and Georgia Tech + more whose aim is to communicate the impacts of federal cuts on science and health research nationwide. Full explainer thread here: bsky.app/profile/josh...

Visualization of IDC cut impacts on NIH-funded research nationwide. More at scienceimpacts.org

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Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Follow and repost @joshuasweitz.bsky.social to spread awareness of the costs of this intentional destruction of American strength in science and medicine

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