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  • What is AI criticism for?

  • Is big tech a driver of inflation?

  • The chaotic reality of contemporary AI labs

  • The short moment of relative austerity which preceded the GenAI bubble

  • Sam Altman: the billionaire prepper who believes he has achieved enlightenment

  • What happens when the free trial period of GenAI is over?

  • When will the AI bubble burst? What will be left behind?

  • Why digital elites are embracing Trump

  • Is an AI autumn coming? Possibly but the arguments for this aren’t as obvious as people seem to suggest

  • We are not the users of generative AI

  • The environmental impact of generative AI

  • Deflating the concept of ‘surveillance capitalism’

  • Does Big Tech have too much power in the Post-Pandemic University?

  • Big Tech and sustainability: the current state of play

  • The geopolitics of Big Tech and the Covid crisis

  • Inviting regulation once you’ve already won

  • Big tech is now too-big-to-fail

  • Big Tech, Nationalism and Globalisation

  • Tech Platforms and the Knowledge Problem

  • The institutionalisation of behavioural surplus: a quick recap on The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

  • Critics of Amazon don’t understand how popular it is

  • Where is the agency which will reign in big tech?

  • Repoliticising tech mythology

  • The collapse of the tech mythology

  • Socialising children into digital agency: why it’s not the same as reading, writing and arithmetic

  • The problem of abundance and the political economy of digital knowledge

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