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Patrick Brian Smith

@patrickbriansmith.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor and University Fellow at the University of Salford // media, forensics, human rights, law + doc/spatial/political theory // orcid.org/0000-0002-0391-7549

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Patrick Brian Smith @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Three upcoming events at the Emergent Nonfiction Lab, you can register through the links here: emergentnonfictionlab.com

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Patrick Brian Smith @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Presenting at #CSA2026. Drawing on Israel's Project Nimbus, the paper examines how cloud computing and AI are becoming increasingly embedded in contemporary architectures of warfare, and what this reveals about the evolving relationship between Big Tech, militarisation, and imperial power.

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Patrick Brian Smith @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Looking forward to presenting this paper on the militarisation of big tech and its roles in global genocide and ecocide at the CMSSP conference on Sunday

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Patrick Brian Smith @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Some thoughts on The Perfect Neighbor (Gandbhir, 2025) and the structural racism that shapes both the murder of Ajike Owens and its aftermath. I ask whether the most radical gesture isn’t better evidence—but refusing the theatre of justice and forensics altogether... docalogue.com/the-perfect-...

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Patrick Brian Smith @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Pleased to share details for this forthcoming event at the Emergent Nonfiction Lab. You can register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/late-moder...

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Patrick Brian Smith @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Over the course of the summer, pieces from the forthcoming issue of World Records, titled "Just Evidence," co-edited by LaCharles Ward, Sasha Crawford-Holland, and myself, will be released. The full issue with introduction will be available late summer! worldrecordsjournal.org/category/vol...

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Patrick Brian Smith @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

"Strategies of witnessing, speculating, and testifying through body and voice can stake out a political intervention... aesthetic counterforensics bypass metrics of truth-seeking that are indissociable from colonization and enslavement as they bear upon the present."

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Patrick Brian Smith @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

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Patrick Brian Smith @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

"How does catharsis—and our presumed right, or imperative, to attain it—operate in Western, neoliberal culture as an affective currency that connects our screens to our courts in the reproduction of a carceral common sense?"

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Patrick Brian Smith @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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