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Ulises Navarro Aguiar

@ulissess.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer at HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg. ulisesnavarro.com

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 16h
Volume 35, Issue 3 is finally out with the first part of the Forum on Tech Oligarchy! Edited by @keanbirch.bsky.social, the issue includes 14 articles about the emergence and the political, economic, and social implications of techno-financial elites. 🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/current
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The scammy is getting slop-powered to the nth degree.
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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Celebrate with us at EASST2026!🥂 We are happy to announce our new publication Predictions (Vol. I) and invite you to meet authors and editors and join us for a toast! -> 1pm -> at our stall in the main library, right by the registration area
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We'll be unfolding some things in relation to design culture in this upcoming symposium at Aalto University in Helsinki. We'll be reacting to recent work within Design Culture Studies (DCS) that interrogates what it might mean to enact or practice post-solutionist inquiries/interventions.
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Unfolding Design Culture: practical investigations explores possibilities for a new praxis of design and enquiry. | Aalto University
Symposium on post-solutionist design culture: how Design Culture Studies scholars practice creatively, engage publics, and generate insights beyond project conventions.
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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Toronto's apocalyptic sky - this is midday
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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This essay is an excellent taster, perhaps, for @alirizataskale.bsky.social' forthcoming book on Financial Realities in Speculative Literature and Film. aeon.co/essays/silic...
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
AI slop is killing open source culture.
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Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Oh no. What a loss. Fleming's work is (and will remain) very important in org studies and beyond.
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
RIP David Cayley. His work for CBC’s Ideas series is unmissable. I always thought he had one of the most fascinating jobs out there. www.davidcayley.com/podcasts Here's a touching tribute by @lmsacasas.bsky.social: theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/friendship...
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Friendship Suffices: In Memory of David Cayley
The Convivial Society: Vol. 7, No. 6
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
There's so much talk about "future making" these days. So Karl Palmås and I set out to briefly map how this notion has been used in futures research, tracing its cross-disciplinary roots and stakes across sociology, anthropology, design, and organization studies. doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
Screenshot of the first page of an article entitled "From visioning to crafting futures? Surveying the expanding literature on future making."
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
”But reengineering universities around industrial agendas forgets that contributing to economic growth and social impact are secondary to the fundamental function of the university as a place where knowledge—and more importantly, reason—are contested…”
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
PhD student position in artistic practice (broadly construed—it includes design practice) at HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design. Apply by 5 August!
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Doctoral student in Artistic Practice
Doctoral position in Artistic practice The Artistic Faculty consists of the departments HDK-Valand – Academy of
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Equator is kicking off the World Cup with an essay from Mexico by the legendary Juan Villoro – on the unequal billing of the three host nations, the “cautious attitude” of fans who fear being deprived of a great public spectacle, and the moments of magic to come
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I’ve been thinking about this essay, written in late 2023, quite a lot recently, and especially that Sheila Williams anecdote with which it opens. It took a little longer than I expected, but our labor is being overwhelmed by (null)formation.
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The Trash-Text Tsunami
In 2024, The Internet Will Become An Ocean of (Null)formation
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
”Besides becoming one of the world’s most indebted nations in the world, the number of billionaires in Sweden has grown at an unprecedented rate. During the pandemic alone, they doubled in number.” @artefr.bsky.social
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Debt Fever | ARTE.tv Documentary
YouTube video by ARTE.tv Documentary
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Ali Rıza Taşkale @alirizataskale.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The "AI is inevitable" line is a political choice, not a fact. This new AI Resist List documents lawsuits, strikes, and creative pushback from Chile to Congo. Resistance isn't fringe - it's already global.
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Lana Swartz @lanalanalana.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
new piece, Social Media in the Scam Age, for the 10th anniversary of @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social thank you to @zizip.bsky.social for inviting me journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Social Media in the Scam Age - Lana Swartz, 2026
This essay examines scams as a central organizing logic of contemporary social media rather than peripheral criminal activity. Drawing on research in cryptocurr...
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Shockingly, self-regulation of the Swedish forest industry isn't working. Who would've thought? www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
"In Sweden, where our latest investigation has been carried out, protecting forests is not just crucial for climate and biodiversity reasons, it’s also key for Europe’s only recognised Indigenous People, the Sámi. However, insufficient governance and self-regulation of the Swedish forest industry has resulted in vital old forests being destroyed rather than protected, the report shows. What fuels this destruction is to a big extent the demand for throwaway products like cardboard and pulp, especially from the e-commerce sector."
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Yeah, it's not looking great. "Old-growth Swedish forests cut down at fast pace" via @srnyheter.bsky.social www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/anci...
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
”Researchers found undisturbed primary forests store 83% more carbon per acre than the managed forests that are replacing them, with soil accounting for most of the difference.” sustainability.stanford.edu/news/shockin...
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A ‘shocking’ carbon discovery in Sweden’s forests
A new study finds old-growth forests in Sweden store far more carbon than the industrial tree plantations that are rapidly replacing them, with soil accounting for most of the difference. Protecting u...
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Eurozine @eurozine.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Modernism promised a bright future. Now 'shit experiments', launched by tech oligarchs and authoritarian governments, utilize neuroliberalism’s handle on malleable human behaviour. Can anything of social experimentation be salvaged for welfare and basic income needs? Karl Palmås via Glänta
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Tech hype isn't just marketing and PR—it's also alarm, paranoia, and propaganda. Fabian Muniesa argues today's hype matches what scholars Adorno and Horkheimer called reason's collapse into fascist madness.
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Hype, Paranoia, and the Fascist Propensity in Tech
Tech hype quite visibly matches the traits once identified as the disease of modern reason and its collapse into fascist madness, writes Fabian Muniesa.
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Yes, the widespread buy-in on Silicon Valley AI at European universities is quite baffling to me. There isn’t enough pushback.
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A̴̙̅Ǩ̸̫A̵̭̍ ̵̖̃F̴̛͈ȧ̸͙b̶̦́ï̵͙a̵̜̾n̸̰͠ ̸̘̾M̷̟͠u̴͉̇n̷̥͝i̷̻͆e̸̮̾ŝ̵̲a̴̹͌ @provokedeconomy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
More trouble than previously thought... Thanks @suscrockford.bsky.social @erosamon.bsky.social @aminsamman.bsky.social for brilliant critiques of 'Paranoid Finance'!!! And @busedoyu.bsky.social @allartmarkets.bsky.social @jcultecon.bsky.social for setting this up!!! doi.org/10.1080/1753...
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More trouble than previously thought
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Illich looking back on CIDOC as 'the inverse of a university.'
'By 1964 Borremans and a group of her collaborators incorporated
this library as Centro Intercultural de Documentación, CIDOC, in Cuernavaca. During the next 12 years about 18,000 people came to read and to study at the Center which Borremans directed. More than 300 titles were published by CIDOC. CIDOC was meant to be the inverse of a university: a library centered place for advanced learning where courses grew out of self-organized reading, and all readers were equally empowered to organize their own seminars. This did work for almost a decade, but then success undermined the Center's purpose. Increasingly university teachers from foreign countries came to organize their own credit courses. Rather than allow CIDOC to become one more University, in 1976 Valentina Borremans closed the Center that she had founded and directed.'
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
‘Mexico City seeks new rent controls in gentrification wave’ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Mexico City seeks new rent controls in gentrification wave
Shortage of affordable homes and protests over US immigrants prompt policy response
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/04/2026
The Asset Class by Hettie O’Brien review – private equity is coming for us all
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The Asset Class by Hettie O’Brien review – private equity is coming for us all
A fascinating, infuriating, immaculately researched account of how wealth management giants snap up the services upon which rely to extract eye-watering profits
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Not to mention his involvement with RAND.
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Herbert Simon appraising Bruno Latour as "soft, to the point of mushiness" and his work as "a sort of generalized Marxism" is quite noteworthy (albeit not that surprising considering the former's computationalist views of knowledge and the social).
Quote from the article: 'In late April, with the committee meeting approaching, he wrote Carnegie Mellon psychologist Herbert Simon, who had shared a negative appraisal of Latour with Adolf Grünbaum and informed him that it would be “more politically correct” to convey those opinions to him directly. Simon, who had read only Laboratory Life, saw in Latour’s work “a sort of generalized Marxism” and a dangerous relativism about science. Bringing such a person to the IAS would confirm scientific stereotypes about social scientists: Latour was “soft, to the point of mushiness."'
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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This caalls for this evergreen quote From the 1980s Handbook of systems analysis. "Then" is 1957.
Our computer capabilities have increased at least a hundred fold since then [then = 1957] and we can do better, but not a great deal better; we are not calculation-limited, we are understanding limited.
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
This is a helpful review of Jäger’s Hyperpolitics by @alirizataskale.bsky.social
Cover of Hyperpolitics by Anton Jäger.
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cameron tonkinwise @camerontw.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Bruno-stagecraft-is-essential-to-tehcnoscience-Latour nods knowingly in some after-life next to his pal, Louis Pasteur
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Jessica Mack @jrmack.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
How did people imagine UNAM's Ciudad Universitaria in Mexico City before it was built? I took a dive into the archive of unbuilt plans for CU and wrote about them in the Journal of Urban History. Check out "Imagining University City" (open access!): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
we're all going to be learning about energy markets & contracts like we learnt about derivatives in 2008 lol
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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 28/03/2026
In the early 1990s, Bruno Latour was not hired at the Institute for Advanced Study. I wrote an article about that decision and what it reveals about the science wars and the history of science studies, now live @histsocialscience.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/985884
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Jameson: it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism Trump: why not both?
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hypestudies.bsky.social @hypestudies.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Reminder about our paid book cover commission - one week left to apply!
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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 10/03/2026
the dream of expert systems is back
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
R.I.P. the adjective "generative". It was fun to use in former times.
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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
An incredible contribution by @loicriom.bsky.social and @taschn.bsky.social to our Forum on Tech Oligarchy. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Thinking tech oligarchy through venture capitalization
Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Golumbia on Mirowski
From crowing about big data and algorithmic governance to the “promises” of the blockchain and Bitcoin and more, the world of the digital is everywhere structured by these fictionalist equivocations over the meanings of central terms, equivocations that derive an enormous part of their power from the appearance that they refer to technological and so material and so metaphysical reality. Perhaps one way of cashing this out, and I offer it only as a very speculative summary of some of Mirowski’s work in this vein, is as a challenge to an unacknowledged Platonism in much of our talk about but also our work with the digital, an idealization that even as it claims to be all about the stuff of the world at the same time turns away from the world in a profound way. Mirowski’s work makes us do exactly the opposite, demanding we take seriously every aspect of the technologies our world actually does present to us, and no less the ways our words and concepts make up that world.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
If you missed the news about Elsevier and Wiley (and doubtless the rest to follow) remaking themselves as AI companies with plans to profit from selling AI summaries of academic work back to the institutions that produced the original work: bsky.app/profile/benp...
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Frustratingly relatable. Please take note, Swedish funding agencies.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
In case you ever wondered how edtech companies, academic publishers, and big AI corporations, as well as HE institutions, make money out of your academic work, here's our new paper starting to unpack the assetization of academic content
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Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It's the economy, stupid. 🫠
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
analytic phil 🤝 "AI" ethics 🤝 "effective altruism" 🤝 technofinance
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Ali Rıza Taşkale @alirizataskale.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Lastly, it feels great to publish in Science as Culture, where Barbrook & Cameron’s seminal essay “The Californian Ideology” appeared! I hope my piece helps carry that critique forward into the era of tech oligarchy & algorithmic governance. 50 free copies here. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QNVIT...
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Manufacturing the Leviathan: Palantir’s ‘Technological republic’ and the nationalist faction of the tech oligarchy
Palantir a ‘superweapon' or a marketing masterclass? This article examines the emergence of a ‘nationalist-militarist' faction within the contemporary tech oligarchy through a critical reading of T...
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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Worth reading this take on forced diffusion of #genAI
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