Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 13/08/2025It is always good news when a new issue of this journal is out July 2025 is on Bayes Computational Culture – a journal of software studies share.google/u8wPNGFddcTc...share.googleComputational Culturea journal of software studies 010
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 12/08/2025the lethal loop between surveillance and death in computational systems and AI in particular makes the Palestinian flesh a crucial component of capitalist value extraction, a recursive iteration of a foundational moment... 040
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Intrigued by Leif Weatherby's book Language Machines just out with Minnesota Press reviewed here by Rob Horning #LLM robhorning.substack.com/p/eliza-pill...robhorning.substack.comEliza-pilledAbout Leif Weatherby's 'Language Machines' and being entertained by "auto-intimacy" 030
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Thoughtful and inspiring reflections by Ash Sharma on the spirit of Bandung Afro-Asian solidarity as unfinished project and structure of feeling #Bandung #culturalstudies substack.com/inbox/post/1...substack.comBandung at 70Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference 2025 020
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Palantir is becoming the US government contractor of choice, embodying its idea of government as essentially policing?https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-government-contracting-push/wired.comPalantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into GovernmentPalantir has become one of the few winners in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, offering other contractors a lifeline while consolidating its own reach and power. 021
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Tech giants are lavishing on AI development the kind of capital that would be needed to secure the social and ecological transition necessary to counter the apocalyptic horizon that is looming over the planet and the human species.... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comBig tech has spent $155bn on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions moreTech giants have spent more on AI than the US government has on education, jobs and social services in 2025 so far 173
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 05/08/2025important work by Martina Tazzioli on technology and migration 021
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Over the past 5 years, I have been involved in conversations with Luciana Parisi, Ezekiel Dixon-Roman and Oana Parvan around ideas of recursivity, colonialism and the apocalypse. We just published a short article here #recursivity #CCB #colonialism academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-...academic.oup.comRecursive apocalypseAbstract. This article posits that the recursive algorithm of apocalypse, including fascism, can be understood as part of the continuous logic of recursive 121
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 24/07/2025I feel like I have fallen into a kind of rabbit hole following a reference about Palantir's CEO Alex Karp holding a phd in "neoclassical social science" from Frankfurt University 100
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 21/07/2025From Paolo Gerbaudo on the #bigtechdeepstate the ever closer integration of computational capital in the security state infrastructure jacobin.com/2025/07/big-...jacobin.comThe Big Tech Deep StateDigital technology was sold as a liberating tool that could free individuals from state power. Yet the state security apparatus always had a different view — and now it’s taking back control of its ow... 000
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Very appreciative of readings that point in the direction of rethinking tactics against authoritarianism www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWe are no longer free. But we can win our freedom backTo meet this moment in US history, we need to revisit the rich – and successful – tradition of nonviolent disruption 010
Reposted by Tiziana TerranovaSubjectivity Journal @j4subjectivity.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Before and After the Internet. We have just published a review of two recent books on #AlgorithmicCulture and #PlatformCapitalism by @striphas.bsky.social and @synthesiastica.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comBefore and after the internet - SubjectivitySubjectivity - 164
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 14/05/2025My solidarity and respect to Alondra Nelson 030
Reposted by Tiziana TerranovaDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a 1481325076552
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Recording of the event with #+972 Magazine on Independent Journalism in Israel Palestine www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuWY... iyoutube.comDDD - +972 & Local CallYouTube video by John Cabot University – JCUTV 320
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 16/04/2025This article by Astra Taylor and Naomi Klein has already been repeatedly shared and commented and deserves to, it pinpoints with sharp focus the traits of the neoreactionary ideology www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...theguardian.comThe rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra TaylorThe governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them 021
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 12/04/2025As Director of CRiTT (Transational Technoculture Research Centre) I am happy to share our next two events organized by our John Cabot University and Ca Foscari University nodes #israelpalestine #972magazine #colonialism #criticalanimalstudies #CRiTT #independentjournalism #johncabot #cafoscari 210
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 22/03/2025there is a lot of untapped potential now out there for organising in ways that stop the reactionary fascist tide of Trump & co 010
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 03/03/2025CRiTT/DDD event in Rome this week: Tatiana Bazzichelli Female Power and Military Whistleblowing 030
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Thanks to Minor Composition for putting on you tube this dialogue we had about my collection of essays After the Internet www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXQ5...youtube.comAfter the Internet with Tiziana TerranovaYouTube video by Minor Compositions 063
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 19/02/2025what is relevant to purposes of organization is reckoning with the crucial importance of digital computational infrastructures and their vulnerability to the kind of exploits performed by neoreactionary tech capital that is parasiting Trump's presidency 021
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Su il manifesto di oggi un mio commento sulla svolta neo-reazionaria del capitalismo di piattaforma e il ruolo delle piattaforme di governo nel settore pubblico ilmanifesto.it/capitalismo-...ilmanifesto.itCapitalismo di piattaforma, la svolta neo-reazionaria | il manifestoBig Data e IA (Commenti) #custom_field-ochiello. Di #custom_field-autore 032
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 18/02/2025if you are looking for models she is one to follow 010
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 18/02/2025if you are looking for models she is one to follow 000
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 17/02/2025a backlash against the possibility of social change 020
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Paul Krugman on the full extent of the process of dismantlement of government infrastructure and likely consequences Our Government Is Experiencing a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...open.substack.comOur Government Is Experiencing a Rapid Unscheduled DisassemblyMusk is moving fast and breaking important things 030
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 15/02/2025sharing this for now I will go back for more comments broligarchy.substack.com/p/it-is-a-co...broligarchy.substack.comIT IS A COUPThis is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong. 041
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 13/02/2025I do find the speed of the technoliberal's U-turn on "diversity" from a much vaunted priority to this. Meta and Google are rolling back all kinds of liberal priorities at a dizzy speed #autogolpe #neoreaction #techfirms www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comGoogle Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural eventsCompany says listed holidays were not ‘sustainable’ for its model as tech firms roll back diversity efforts 020
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 11/02/2025This is worth listening to: May 23 2024 podcast from the Nation about Balaj Srinivasan's #thenetworkstate including references to various podcasts and talks www.thenation.com/podcast/soci...thenation.comTech’s Plan to “Ethnically Cleanse” San FranciscoOn this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Gil Duran on a plan for “tech Zionism” in Silicon Valley. 010
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Mahmood Muna was a guest at my university just a few months ago, now he has been arrested with his brothers as part of an harassment campaign against Palestinian intellectuals www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...theguardian.comIsraeli police raid Jerusalem bookshops and arrest Palestinian ownersRaid on Educational Bookshop branches described by rights groups as part of harassment campaign against Palestinian intellectuals 020
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 10/02/2025wednesday the 12th in Naples, i will be looking back at the debate ion digital commons with IT professor Giuseppe Aceto as part of the #gameoftech series 230
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 10/02/2025this looks like a good action to follow and implement for US citizen trying to stop the #AutoGolpe 010
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Following @nathantankus.bsky.social coverage of the hijacking of the federal reserve and treasure by the #autogolpistes Musk and Trump www.crisesnotes.com/aboutnathant...crisesnotes.comAbout Nathan TankusIn addition to being the Publisher of Notes on the Crises, Nathan Tankus is the Research Director of the Modern Money Network. He has written for the Financial Times, Politico, Business Insider, The G... 020
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 10/02/2025I am following @pkrugman.bsky.social analysis that what we are seeing is an #autogolpe paulkrugman.substack.com/p/autogolpepaulkrugman.substack.comAutogolpeWhat’s really happening beneath the Musk/Trump chaos 010
Reposted by Tiziana TerranovaBeth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Just realized I should asterisk this. It's the 25 *higher education* institutions that receive the most funding from HHS/NIH. So it wouldn't include standalone research centers. 04317
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Report from inside the workplaces under attack by the #neoreactionarycoup It provides insights into it's brutality but also the collective response that it is creating among workers 020
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 08/02/2025some analysis of the likely impact of cuts to NIH funding for US universities 000
Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Another thing: if you have serious disagreement with an analysis that also addresses issues that you are concerned with, choose the long form, write substantially, avoid snide social media remarks 042