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Tiziana Terranova

@synthesiastica.bsky.social
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Professor of Cultural Studies, Digital Media and Technopolitics at the University of Naples L'Orientale. Author: Network Culture (2004), After the Internet (2022)

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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
really informative
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
It 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...
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Computational Culture
a journal of software studies
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
the 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...
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Intrigued by Leif Weatherby's book Language Machines just out with Minnesota Press reviewed here by Rob Horning #LLM robhorning.substack.com/p/eliza-pill...
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Eliza-pilled
About Leif Weatherby's 'Language Machines' and being entertained by "auto-intimacy"
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Thoughtful 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...
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Bandung at 70
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference 2025
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Palantir 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/
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Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government
Palantir 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.
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Tech 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...
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Big tech has spent $155bn on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more
Tech giants have spent more on AI than the US government has on education, jobs and social services in 2025 so far
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
important work by Martina Tazzioli on technology and migration
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Over 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-...
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Recursive apocalypse
Abstract. This article posits that the recursive algorithm of apocalypse, including fascism, can be understood as part of the continuous logic of recursive
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I 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
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
From Paolo Gerbaudo on the #bigtechdeepstate the ever closer integration of computational capital in the security state infrastructure jacobin.com/2025/07/big-...
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The Big Tech Deep State
Digital 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...
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
got to keep an eye on palantir
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Very appreciative of readings that point in the direction of rethinking tactics against authoritarianism www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We are no longer free. But we can win our freedom back
To meet this moment in US history, we need to revisit the rich – and successful – tradition of nonviolent disruption
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Subjectivity Journal @j4subjectivity.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Before 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...
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Before and after the internet - Subjectivity
Subjectivity -
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
My solidarity and respect to Alondra Nelson
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a
laura loomer tweet: WOKE MARXIST POPE
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Recording of the event with #+972 Magazine on Independent Journalism in Israel Palestine www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuWY... i
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DDD - +972 & Local Call
YouTube video by John Cabot University – JCUTV
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This 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...
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
As 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
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
it will not be forgotten
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
there is a lot of untapped potential now out there for organising in ways that stop the reactionary fascist tide of Trump & co
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
this is very believable
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
CRiTT/DDD event in Rome this week: Tatiana Bazzichelli Female Power and Military Whistleblowing
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
congratulations @alondra.bsky.social
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Thanks 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...
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After the Internet with Tiziana Terranova
YouTube video by Minor Compositions
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
what 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
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Su 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-...
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Capitalismo di piattaforma, la svolta neo-reazionaria | il manifesto
Big Data e IA (Commenti) #custom_field-ochiello. Di #custom_field-autore
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
if you are looking for models she is one to follow
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
if you are looking for models she is one to follow
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
a backlash against the possibility of social change
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Paul 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...
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Our Government Is Experiencing a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
Musk is moving fast and breaking important things
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
sharing this for now I will go back for more comments broligarchy.substack.com/p/it-is-a-co...
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IT IS A COUP
This 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.
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
grazie a philip di salvo per questo
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I 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...
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Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural events
Company says listed holidays were not ‘sustainable’ for its model as tech firms roll back diversity efforts
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
today
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This 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...
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Tech’s Plan to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco
On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Gil Duran on a plan for “tech Zionism” in Silicon Valley.
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Mahmood 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...
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Israeli police raid Jerusalem bookshops and arrest Palestinian owners
Raid on Educational Bookshop branches described by rights groups as part of harassment campaign against Palestinian intellectuals
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
wednesday 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
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
this looks like a good action to follow and implement for US citizen trying to stop the #AutoGolpe
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Following @nathantankus.bsky.social coverage of the hijacking of the federal reserve and treasure by the #autogolpistes Musk and Trump www.crisesnotes.com/aboutnathant...
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About Nathan Tankus
In 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...
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I am following @pkrugman.bsky.social analysis that what we are seeing is an #autogolpe paulkrugman.substack.com/p/autogolpe
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Autogolpe
What’s really happening beneath the Musk/Trump chaos
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Listen.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Just 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.
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Report 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
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
some analysis of the likely impact of cuts to NIH funding for US universities
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Tiziana Terranova @synthesiastica.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Another 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
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