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  • Will models fine-tuned to particular domains start consistently outperforming frontier models? Encoding habitus into LLMs

  • The class composition of American proto-fascism

  • The delivery robots being trialed in Leeds

  • The late 2020s as the final act of modernity

  • What kind of AI bubble are we in?

  • Why don’t people find the environmental impact of TikTok as grotesque as that of ChatGPT?

  • The coming economic crash and the far right

  • A slice of reality

  • Is the growth of LLMs like the growth of plastic?

  • The chaotic reality of contemporary AI labs

  • Waves of austerity in Silicon Valley

  • A speculative genealogy of accelerationist perspectives

  • The ‘vibes shift’ as a preemptive declaration of hegemony

  • What will the next stage of capitalism look like? Two possibilities from Cedric Durand responding to Brett Christophers

  • GenAI beyond the bubble

  • Contemporary fascism mobilises passions which are a (fleeting) escape from the paralysis borne of a dying civilization

  • The psyche is intrinsically constituted by its relation to infinity

  • Who will pay for your digital butler? Why the utopia of the digital daemon would inevitably become a dystopia

  • On the machinic qualities of human interaction and the human qualities of the machine

  • Do people dismiss GAI-supported work because it doesn’t involve the sacrifice of time?

  • AI and the politics of productivity in a crumbling UK

  • The future of human labour: filling in the gaps in AI megamachines?

  • Deflating the concept of ‘surveillance capitalism’

  • Capitalism is tearing us apart

  • We’re leaving neoliberalism and entering something worse

  • Yanis Varoufakis on Post-Pandemic Technofeudalism

  • What the intersection of Covid and climate crisis means for capitalism

  • Nick Land’s Poeticisation of Capital’s Obscenity

  • Post-Pandemic Hedonism: Thoughts on Mark Fisher’s Final Book

  • Preventing pandemics or preparing for them

  • This new age of plagues is directly the result of economic globalization

  • Is capitalism too big to fail?

  • Neoliberalism and its dependence upon oil

  • The sociology of civilisational collapse

  • Will Covid-19 generate an epidemiological folk consciousness? What will this mean for platform capitalism?

  • The Great Disruptive Project of Uber

  • Can capitalism survive climate change?

  • The singular innovation which explains capitalism’s growth

  • The ideology of how ‘the world really is’

  • Call for Papers: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

  • Platform capitalism and its interplanetary horizons

  • Call for Papers: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

  • Social democracy is not post-capitalism, it’s past capitalism

  • Images of the end of capitalism

  • It’s not you, it’s capitalism

  • will capitalism die? or merely trundle on in an ever more authoritarian way?

  • Deadline Jan 8th: Mapping Alternative Routes out of Capitalism

  • Algorithmic Blacklisting: Big Data & Industrial Conflict

  • “The problem with capitalism is that it’s not capitalist enough”: Neoliberalism 2.0?

  • Selling psychopathy in late modernity

  • CfP: Thinking Beyond Capitalism, Belgrade, June 24-26, 2015

  • Nightcrawler: or, the possibility of a vocation in late capitalism

  • An existential analytics of speed

  • The corporate capture of democracy

  • What will neo-neoliberal ideology look like?

  • The breaking of intellectual superstars

  • CfP: How capitalism survives? A Marxist-Feminist perspective

  • Paul Krugman discusses Piketty with Bill Moyers

  • The Piketty Panic and the Making of Intellectual Superstars

  • How the “Internet of Things” is Killing Capitalism

  • Capitalism Is The Crisis

  • Money, Power and Opportunity in the Late Modern City, or, isn’t it a shame J G Ballard isn’t around to see this?

  • Spring Breakers, Late Capitalism and Nihilism

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