Benjamin Jacobsen

Very excited to announce that my first book (co-written with prof. David Beer) will be published on 1st April 2021 with @BrisUniPress! It is an in-depth study of how Facebook algorithmically engineers social media memories. @UoY_SATSU @UoYSociology @UniOfYork

There's a new special issue of the Parrhesia journal, dedicated to the work of Michel Serres: Full open access PDF: parrhesiajournal.org/wp-content/upl… TOC 👇

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, I did not know you go so hard

@Wired: Nvidia’s latest scoop? They just bagged Gretel to supercharge AI training data. It’s like they’ve ordered data on demand! With the Swedish and European AI scene booming, synthetic data is the secret sauce. Get ready for some deliciously efficient… wired.com/story/nvidia-g…

⚡️NEW ARTICLE⚡️Simulation and the reality gap: Moments in a prehistory of synthetic data (with James Steinhoff, UCD) in @BigDataSoc available OA🔓: doi.org/10.1177/205395…

BREAKING: Trump now reportedly wants Ukrainian President Zelensky to give up part of Ukraine’s land to Russia, hold elections, and possibly resign in order to receive U.S. aid, per NBC. How about holding Putin to the same standard? How about making Putin give up part of Russia, hold elections without jailing, killing, or poisoning his opponents, and asking him to resign?

In "DeepAesthetics," Anna Munster explores aesthetics, artificial intelligence, & machine learning to understand the contours of computational experience and the possibility to use AI to create new futures. Read the intro for free on our website now! buff.ly/4hIcJmz

Trending in #CulturalStudies: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) Minority Authoritarianism: The New Anti-Equality Agenda 2) Aníbal Quijano & the Decolonial Turn (@TCSjournalSAGE) 3) Synthetic Data & the Politics of Difference 4) Political Theology: Origins, Concepts & Contradictions

New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Benjamin N. Jacobsen, 'Machine Learning, Synthetic Data, and the Politics of Difference'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

@DLuitse @TCSjournalSAGE Thank you Dieuwertje!

@BN_Jacobsen @TCSjournalSAGE Congratulations! This looks really exciting 🙌

🚨Really excited to start the year with a new article just published in @TCSjournalSAGE on the intersection of synthetic data and AI: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

We are so excited to (virtually) host @thao_pow later this month, Jan 21st, where she will share her project “Testing-in-the-wild: innovation nationalism and the colonial dynamics of new technology testbeds” Register here: centrefordronesandculture.com/events/testing…

📢 Happy 2025 from the #CriticalAI seminar team✨On January 22, 5:30–7 PM (CET) we continue our series with Lilly Irani who will talk about 'Algorithms of Suspicion,' focusing on authentication and distrust on digital labour platforms ⚡️Sign up: create.humanities.uva.nl/events/3-criti…

A last one for the day, the wonderful study on mathematical philosophy ''Why is there philosophy of mathematics at all?'' by Ian Hacking. I particularly loved the chapters dedicated to the philosophy behind mathematical proofs and to Plato's philosophical influence on math.

I am so happy to share this essay by yours truly! If you’re interested in my work on space, here it finally is in a condensed medium. In this text, I develop a theory of *historical spatiality* — an escape from relativism that can render history objective. royst.no/post/quilting-…

My article “Machines That Create: Contingent Computation and Generative AI” is now published in @meejatheory journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/a… There I address the claims proposed in my 2018 book Contingent Computation vis-à-vis the AI developments occurred since ✨

Happy to share that my paper "On the individuation of complex computational models: Gilbert Simondon and the technicity of AI" is now available on AI & Society. Thanks to @ludovico_rella and @fabio_iapaolo for putting together this special issue! doi.org/10.1007/s00146…

CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @SusanaAiresG, @ludovico_rella & me at #STSItalia2025 in Milan next June! Abstracts due 3 February 2025. For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m

An unpublished interview with Fredric Jameson, by @kunktation: "The Art of Criticism" theparisreview.org/interviews/837…

📢 Just published by @ManchesterUP, "Digital Ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds" is a @digicologies edited collection exploring the world(s) of digital ecologies! I have a chapter on 'ecological computationality' manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170347/

1/ Honored (!) to explore digital dispossession's implications for law, critical/cultural data studies & STS with @FleurEJ in @4sWeb's @BackchannelsJ: 4sonline.org/news_manager.p…! Thank you Aaron Gregory and @ludovico_rella for your editorial hospitality and guidance! @ERC_Research