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Noortje Marres

@noortjem.bsky.social
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Sociologist of technology and science, empirical philosopher, creative methods

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Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why do tech elites believe the world is theirs to transform? In this essay I return to Hans Blumenberg’s writings to show how this belief is grounded in “the second creation”, where humanity overcomes its alienation from nature by building an artificial world. www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-se...
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The Second Creation and the Destruction of Worlds
Marres returns to the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg to uncovers the origins of tech elites’ ambition to remake the world. Blumenberg traced that ambition back through modern experimental science ...
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
it was good to be back at @cimethods.bsky.social with Nerea Calvillo, @noortjem.bsky.social, @michael-dieter.bsky.social Sanjay Sharma and many others - thanks so much for having me ✨ jonathangray.org/2026/03/18/cim
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public data cultures at Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick
Notes on a visit to the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at University of Warwick for a book talk and PhD symposium.
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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Joint book launch at King’s 🌟 Featuring: • @jwyg.bsky.social, Public Data Cultures • @nsrnicek.bsky.social, Silicon Empires • @mayameme.bsky.social, Auto-Correct In conversation with @noortjem.bsky.social & @joannazylinska.bsky.social 📅 3 Dec, 19:00-21:00 www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...
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free ticket 🎟️ – joint book launch 🎊 Silicon Empires x Auto-Correct x Public Data Cultures 📚✨ – Macadam Building - MB 4.2
joint book launch 🎊 Silicon Empires x Auto-Correct x Public Data Cultures 📚✨ – Macadam Building - MB 4.2, Wed 3 Dec 2025 - Join us for a book launch event for Nick Srnicek's Silicon Empires, Maya Gane...
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
📚🎊✨ yay - joint book launch for @nsrnicek.bsky.social's Silicon Empires, @mayameme.bsky.social's Auto-Correct and my Public Data Cultures, in discussion with @joannazylinska.bsky.social & @noortjem.bsky.social on 3rd Dec, 7-9pm 💜 www.tickettailor.com/events/kings... @politybooks.bsky.social
book covers for Nick Srnicek's Silicon Empires, Maya Ganesh's Auto-Correct and Jonathan W. Y. Gray's Public Data Cultures.
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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
New paper from the team behind the BRAID Scoping project "AI in the street": Reciprocity Deficits: Observing AI in the street with everyday publics. arxiv.org/abs/2510.23342
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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Authors: @noortjem.bsky.social, @alex-taylor.bsky.social, @mrsbunz.bsky.social, Thao Phan, Dr. Maya Indira Ganesh, Dominique B., Yasmine Boudiaf, Rachel Coldicutt, Iain Emsley, Beatrice Gobbo, Louise Hickman, Manu Luksch, Dr @bettinanissen.bsky.social, Mukul Patel, Luis Soares.
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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
💡 New publication alert! “On the Controversiality of AI: The Controversy Is Not the Situation” by @noortjem.bsky.social , @ckatzenbach.bsky.social , @anderskristianm.bsky.social, and @annajobin.bsky.social is out now. 📖 Read it open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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On the controversiality of AI: The controversy is not the situation - Noortje Marres, Christian Katzenbach, Anders Kristian Munk, Anna Jobin, 2025
Do public controversies about AI matter? Can they really make a difference to how AI is taken up or imposed on society? This introduction to the Special Issue o...
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Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Preprint now available for our research article The Shape-Shifter, a social design method for the participatory evaluation of AI in society osf.io/preprints/so... #STS #Design #materialpublics
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Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Interested in turning the question “where are AI’s publics”? into a data mapping strategy? Do come work with @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Tommaso Ciarli, Ismael Rafols, Cian O’Donovan and myself!
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Friderike Spang @friderikespang.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Excited to share this CfP for a conference organized by my wonderful colleagues at CETE-P! 📣 @coeckelbergh.bsky.social Cohabitability: Ecologies and Technologies of Living on Earth @noortjem.bsky.social @joannazylinska.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Academic #Environment #PhilSky #Technology
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Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague | Centrum pro environmentální a technologickou etiku - Praha
Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague | Centrum pro environmentální a technologickou etiku - Praha
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Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies @cimethods.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Join us for a conversation about the proliferation of forms of social engineering in our contemporary digital societies on CDI TV on Thursday, 6 March! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v7t... #ArtificialSocieties #Symposium #DigitalSociology #Techlash @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @noortjem.bsky.social
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Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Very clear demonstration of how engineering is being deployed as a power tool and staged as power politics, gone are the days when we could think of "technocracy" as "post-politics"
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Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Reality engineering after the tech lash? Can't wait to discuss at @cdi-warwick.bsky.social on March 6 w @michael-dieter.bsky.social @mvaldeb.bsky.social et al Does tech today dismantle societal structures? Is social reality being engineered through AI, or its fantastical twin, the virtual society?
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Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Keir Starmer in the FT, offering up UK society as a testing ground to global companies: “we can go our own way, taking a distinctively British approach that will test AI long before we regulate” #STS’ idea that turning society into a laboratory is how science creates assets is now national strategy
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Britain doesn’t need to walk a US or EU path on AI
Going our own way will unleash national renewal
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Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Critical situations of Covid-19 identified by members and partners of IndieSAGE, the group of scientists that formed in 2020 to provide expert advice on the pandemic response. New article in Social Studies of Science with @mvaldeb.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0306... Visualisations by G. Terenghi
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Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Watch this great documentary report and understand what “AI” looks like from the ground, in Logan Australia. Actually, it is not just looks, but also sharp commentary, including on the retail model, and magical twins to boot!
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Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Symposium alert! “Artificial societies: Social engineering after the Techlash” will happen in March at the U of Warwick with support from @sociologicalreview.bsky.social w Mona Sloane @karengregory.bsky.social organised by @mvaldeb.bsky.social et al. See: thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
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The Sociological Review Seminar Series 2025: winners announced
The 2025 winners, with funding from the Sociological Review Foundation, will lead academic symposia on movement in ethnographic method, feminist liberation imaginaries, social engineering after techla...
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Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Interdisciplinarity French style: anthropologists, artists, philosophers, physicists, designers and sociologists will come together to continue the conversation with Bruno Latour’s work and each other. For 4 days later this week in Paris: www.sciencespo.fr/fr/evenement...
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Bruno Latour ou l'art d'assembler
Les 4, 5, 6 et 7 décembre prochains, Sciences Po rendra hommage à Bruno Latour. Il s’agit moins de célébrer un grand homme (bien qu’il le fût vraiment) que de renouer le fil d’une conversation, hélas ...
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Cool project here from @jwyg.bsky.social troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸 troubling-ai.glitch.me
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troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸
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Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This still sums up AI in the street best for me: “it’s difficult to know whether technology in the street is even functional: ‘In my street, we have a semi-functional environmental sensor: someone backed into it with their car so we’re not sure if it still works.” theconversation.com/five-ways-yo...
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Iain Emsley @iainemsley.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Enjoyed the Conversation post from @noortjem.bsky.social on #ai and #aiinthestreet: theconversation.com/five-ways-yo.... Disclosure: I also worked on the project but I discovered new things in this post.
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Five ways you might already encounter AI in cities (and not realise it)
From facial recognition to delivery drones, cities around the UK are already trialling AI tech.
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Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
It really does look like @mayameme.bsky.social is going to bring it all together in her new book! “the driverless car …works when the world around it transforms to accommodate its limits… [but] such an infrastructural view is hard to advance given..Soon out! artezpress.artez.nl/books/auto-c...
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Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
📢 So happy with the ✨awesome✨ website reporting our @braiduk.bsky.social project #AI-in-the-street. Taken aback by how much we’ve done! See: careful.industries/ai-in-the-st... Thnx to @carefultrouble.bsky.social @noortjem.bsky.social @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social @mayameme.bsky.social + many more!
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Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
Join our event "AI in the street: prompts for debate" Thurs, 12 Sept 18:30, Science Gallery Lndn w/ @noortjem.bsky.social @mayameme.bsky.social @mrsbunz.bsky.social & other lovelies Register 👉https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-in-the-street-at-science-gallery-london-tickets-970353422207
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Anders Kristian Munk @akmunk.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
🔬 🤖 Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: what are algorithms doing in the scientific littearature? 🔬 🤖 New paper out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social with Mathieu Jacomy, Matilde Ficozzi, and Torben Elgaard Jensen. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Summary 🧵👇
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
new article on "pluralising critical technical practice" with Daniela van Geenen and Karin van Es has just been published in Convergence jonathangray.org/2023/12/12/p... we'll add full details & links for the special issue here when it is out publicdatalab.org/projects/plu...
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Pluralising Critical Technical Practices – Public Data Lab
A gathering and reconsideration of critical technical practices in digital research and beyond. Contributions published in a special issue in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into Ne...
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Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
Where is AI in the street? How does it manifest in this everyday setting? The AI in the street recently organised a diagramming workshop hosted by Yasmine Boudiaf to find out. Read the workshop report here: aiinthestreet.substack.com/p/framing-ev...
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Noortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
Where are AI’s publics? Are they latent in mundane acts of participation? Is public formation hampered by AI’s individualising interfaces? We will discuss in Edinburgh on June 5 in a BRAID event organised by @alxndrt.bsky.social with A Powell and B Nissen et al: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/where-are-...
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