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Lecturer in Digital Methods, @kingsdh
Co-founder, @publicdatalab
Research Associate, Digital Methods Initiative (Amsterdam) + médialab (Sciences Po, Paris).

hopeless culture romantic and radical utopian
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I made my posts searchable via https://tootfinder.ch/

artist-researcher, based in London, UK, interested in sound, systems, ecology and complexity.

open source projects, mostly python + audio: https://github.com/ideoforms/

Once, long ago, we were miserable. We lived in cold, dark caves, until someone figured out fire, which lead directly to the iPhone. Most of that happened very slowly, but then we came up with capitalism. Suddenly, we went from no iPhones for 200,000 years, to the iPhone 15 — all in the last two decades!

We all know that technology is progress, but progress towards what? Where exactly are we going? And who the hell is driving? What are computers even for, and why do I need one in my fridge?

researcher/librarian's librarian/archivist of the "queer ways in which a people resist innovations" (vannevar bush, "as we may think," atlantic magazine 176(1), 1945, 107)

artist documenting how "all good machines destroy themselves" (Billy Klüver, interview by Calvin Tomkins, January 18, 1961, IV. C. 20, CT/MoMA. Quoted in McCray 2020, 92).

hyperreferential pattern hallucinator

banner: valley of the dry bones (gustave doré)
pfp: selfie through Dave Jones' studio video feedback rig

no pronouns

Sociologist researching situated #technopractices in #environmental #sustainability, #carbon, #energy #management & #governance – with #dispositif #ethnography & #MaterialSemiotics. #data #practices & their #politics.

Deeply involved in #STS, active in @stsing & @easst

Currently #teaching at @KAEEGoetheUni @GU (DE). Ex @tip_itu @ITU (DK); STS@BTU (DE); Sociology/CSEC/IEPPP Lancs (UK); Tembusu College NUS (SG).

avoiding the backbeat since 1987 - read the Dada Drummer Almanach: http://dadadrummer.substack.com

Director, University of Toronto Centre for Culture and Technology. Media theory, avant-garde aesthetics, history of computing, programming languages.

John V Willshire. Runs Smithery, a strategic design practice. Interested in #strategy, #design, #regenerative, #futures. Likes outdoors.

Using this for observations & noticings, bookmarks & microblogging.

Assemblag.es admin.
PhD-ing @ UOC DARTS (Design Research + STS + Environmental Humanities + Digital Waste).
Working @ greenweb.org, smartcitizen.me and assorted other places.
Anglès a Catalunya (sempre guiri, mai "expat")

Postdoctoral researcher, dad, amateur musician. Interested in how we learn to live with technologies; music, mindfulness, nonviolent communication, walks in the forest or city.

Posts auto-deleted after three months.

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Tutkija, isä, amatöörimuusikko. Kiinnostunut siitä, miten opimme elämään teknologioiden kanssa, musiikista, mindfulnessista, väkivallattomasta vuorovaikutuksesta, kävelyistä metsässä tai kaupungilla.

Postaukset poistuvat automaattisesti kolmen kuukauden ikäisinä.

Writing about #AI, #COI, and health at UT Austin. Latest: The Doctor & The Algorithm (Ox Uni Press): http://academic.oup.com/book/43884

Classically Trained Futurist

Doing Science and Technology Studies in and through Germany

Critical risk scholar | Data justice advocate | Plotting paths towards climate justice. Currently: postdoc @ University of Amsterdam, independent adviser/consultant. Ex @engnroom @dat_active

electrical native - prof #sociology & #sts - Director of the Center for the sociology of innovation (mines paris) — 
New books in 2025: The Care of things (Polity) // Fragilities (MIT Press)
Interested in #maintenance #architecture #data #datalabor #city
scriptopolis is on Mastodon, as well: scripto@www.scriptopolis.fr

Professor, RMIT University

Associate Investigator, Centre for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)

Director, Platform Economies Research Network (PERN)

Author, Anti-Crisis
Author, Fiscal Disobedience

#digitalplatforms #platformeconomies
#data #value #sociotechnical #finance #media #sts #ant #ADMS #PERN

Maîtresse assistante/lecturer at the University of Geneva (Institute for Environmental Sciences), affiliated at the Climate Social Science Network (CSSN), PACTE (Université Grenoble Alpes) and CIS (Centre Internet et Société)