Events
Project events
2026
- 28/09/2026 - Dysphoria mundi: Breaking and Making World Models. Biennale Venezia.
In partnership with Cambridge Digital Humanities and Bibliotheca Hertziana. - 12/03/2026 - Il governo della mente dal colonialismo della prima modernità a Fanon [ITA]. Presentation of Bernardo Paci's book ‘A Materialist Conception of Knowledge: The Colonial Roots of Cognitive Capitalism’. With Matteo Pasquinelli, Matteo Benussi, Valentina Bonifacio and Mattia Brancato (Ca' Foscari University of Venice).
- 10/03/2026 - Supercharged by AI | Synthetic and out of control. [ITA] Ca' Foscari University. Tommaso Guariento and Matteo Pasquinelli, talk “Critical AI Studies: Il ruolo delle scienze umane nell'insegnamento dell'IA a Ca' Foscari”
- 03/03/2026 - Neither god nor AI. A skeptical philosophy of artificial intelligence. Ca' Foscari University. Book presentation with Mathieu Corteel, Tommaso Guariento, e Giovanni Fava.
- 26/02/2026 - MOSAICO Talks 2026. [ITA] Ca' Foscari University.
Tommaso Guariento, talk., ‘ AI as a weighing scale of the human.’ - 24/02/2026 - Monday Colloquium. French Institute of Pondicherry.
Lorenzo De Lellis, talk "From Call Centers to AI Training: On the Evolution of Digital Labor in India". - 18/02/2026 - Systems and Knowledge Conference. Ca Foscari University.
Antoine Bousquet (Swedish Defence University), lecture, 'Seeing like a War Machine: Martial Systems of Knowledge in the Modern Era.' Discussant: Matteo Pasquinelli. - 13/02/2026 - Research Methodology and Computational Labour. Seminar. With Senthil Babu, Ganesh Gopal (French Institute of Pondicherry), Matteo Pasquinelli and Lorenzo De Lellis.
Critical AI Studies seminars (online)
- 15/01/2026 - AI and Environment: Legal Devices and Epistemic Technologies. Talk by Andrea Gentili, University of Padova.
- 10/12/2025 - Political Epistemology of Health. Talk by Senthil Babu (French Institute of Pondicherry), Katie Truax (Houston University) and Giulia Gandolfi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice). Joint session with Political Epistemology seminars.
- 20/11/2025 - From Workers to Oracles: Tracing Human-Machine Assemblages in the Production of AI. Talk by Iraklis Vogiatzis, Hellenic Open University
- 20/10/2025 - The Issue of Statistics in Medicine in the 19th Century. Talk by Giulia Gandolfi, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
- 06/06/2025 - Socialization of Knowledge Extractivism: Agri-Stack in India. Talk by Senthil Babu and Ganesh Gopal, French Institute of Pondicherry.
- 11/04/2025 - Colonial Capitalism and the Knowledge Economy: Data Extraction and Ghost Workers in the Early Modern Americas. Talk by Bernardo Paci, University of Milan.
- 24/03/2025 - Contemporary Uses and Abuses of Lev Vygotsky's Political Psychology. Talk by Tommaso Guariento.
- 05/03/2025 - The Resource Debate in Machine Translation and Large Language Models. Talk by Paolo Caffoni, HfG Karlsruhe.
2025
- 29/05/2025 - Seminar on long economic cycle theory and technological development.
- 12/05/2025 - Seminar with Lucy Suchman on anthropology and STS.
- 07/05/2025 - Open Worlds and the Constitutive Outsides of Artificial Intelligence. Lecture by prof. emerita Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University UK. Chair: Giorgio Ciani.
- 06/05/2025 - “Geopolitica dell'intelligenza artificiale” e “Governo Materiale”: due prospettive a confronto. With Alessandro Aresu and Mattia Frapporti, University of Bologna. Chair: Francesca Carta, Lorenzo De Lellis.
- 05/05/2025 - The Dialectics of Social Cognition: An Enactive Account of Labour. Talk by Andrea Gambarotto, University of Luxembourg. Chair: Tommaso Guariento.
- 29/04/2025 - Seminar with Lucy Suchman on data extractivism in healthcare and war.
- 22/04/2025 - Seminar with Lucy Suchman on the project AIMODELS.
- 16/04/2025 - Seminar with Lucy Suchman on the project HealthXCross.
- 06/03/2025 - La costruzione sociale e tecnica della mente: la psicologia politica di Lev Vygotskij nell'era dell'IA. Inaugural lecture by Tommaso Guariento. Chair: Matteo Pasquinelli. Recording 06/03/2025.
2024
- 29/10/2024 - Gottfried Leibniz in the World of AI
Talk by Audrey Borowski, Bonn University / Cambridge University - 30/01/2024 - The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
Book presentation with Matteo Pasquinelli. Discusssants: Francesca Tarocco, Bruce Andrews, Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Marco Baravalle.
External events
2026
- 04-07/10/2026 - International Bauhaus Colloquium “Politics of Research”. Bauhaus University, Weimar.
Matteo Pasquinelli, keynote lecture. - 27-29/05/2026 - Umberto Eco and All the Knowledge in the World Conference. University of Bologna.
Tommaso Guariento and Matteo Pasquinelli, talk, “Trees, Rhizomes, and Vectors: On the Semiotic Form of AI”. - 11/04/2026 - Classici Contro: Techne. [ITA] Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza
Matteo Pasquinelli, lecture, “Archeologia politica dell'algoritmo: dagli altari Veda al superstato della Silicon Valley". - 05/04/2026 - Historical Materialism Istanbul Conference 2026, Bilgi University, Istanbul
Giorgio Ciani, talk, Models of Control: From Time and Motion Studies to Wide Area Motion Imagery. - 17/03/2026 - Forms of Intelligence(s): From Philosophy to Artificial Intelligence [ITA], University of Padua.
Giorgio Ciani, talk, "Dominio e forma nel secolo XXI. Guerra e intelligenza artificiale". - 21/02/2026 - First Workshop on AI and Education. AIPSN, Bangalore, India.
Matteo Pasquinelli, talk, ‘From the General Intellect to Microwork: AI as the Mechanisation of Collective Knowledge.’ - 20/02/2026 - Archive Public Lecture Series #73. NCBS Bangalore.
Senthil Babu (French Institute of Pondicherry), lecture "Between the Concrete and the Abstract: Computational Work in South Indian History". - 16/02/2026 - Critique of AI. Centre for Social Critique, Humboldt University Berlin.
Matteo Pasquinelli et al., roundtable moderated by Jacob Blumenfeld. - 21/01/2026 - Nazrul Bhavan, Department of Sociology. Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
Lorenzo De Lellis, talk "From Call Centers to AI Training: On the Evolution of Digital Labor in India". - 15/01/2026 - Arts and Humanities Division Seminar. Duke Kunshan University.
Matteo Pasquinelli, Towards Trans-Systemic AI: Knowledge and Social Order between China and the West. - 08/01/2026 - Does writing have a future? Reflecting with Flusser in the Time of Generative AI Seminar. University of Padova.
Tommaso Guariento, talk, "Education in the loop. Challenges and perils of learning with AI".
2025
- 22/12/2025 - School of Philosophy Seminar. Fudan University, Shanghai.
Matteo Pasquinelli, lecture, "Vectors for Workers: Models of Automation and Autonomy in the Long AI Century." - 15/11/2025 - Generative AI and the Future of Learning and Making Conference. Venice Biennale.
Matteo Pasquinelli, panel talk. Politics of Datasets: Invisible Influences and Alternative Epistemologies. - 13/11/2025 - Reflective Intelligences Roundtable. Chilean Pavillion Venice Biennale.
Matteo Pasquinelli, lecture '"How Artificial Intelligence Evolves and Why: Theories of Automation Past and Present". - 07/11/2025 - Historical Materialism Conference. SOAS University of London.
Matteo Pasquinelli, keynote lecture, Deutscher Memorial Prize, “Vectors for Workers: Models of Automation and Autonomy in the Long AI Century.” Recording 07/11/2025.
Bernardo Paci, book launch panel, “A Materialistic Conception of Knowledge”, with Tommaso Guariento, Francesca Carta, Giorgio Ciani, Raffaele Buono, Matteo Pasquinelli.
Bernardo Paci, talk, “Knowledge reappropriation and the politics of translation: Negri, Panzieri, Fanon”. - 27/10/2025 - World Model Collapse and the Limits of AI Extractivism. e-flux, New York.
Matteo Pasquinelli, talk with Jonathan Beller and Brian Kuan Wood. - 24/10/2025 - Who's Afraid of AI Conference. University of Toronto.
Matteo Pasquinelli, talk, “Social History and Possible Futures of AI.” - 21/10/2025 - The Eye of the Master: A Social History of AI. Amherst College.
Matteo Pasquinelli, talk, “Theories of Automation Before and After AI.” - 17/10/2025 - Vera List Center Forum 2025 Matter of Intelligence. The New School, New York.
Matteo Pasquinelli, keynote lecture, “AI and Madness: On the Disalienation of the General Intellect.” - 10-12/09/2025 - INDL 8 conference. University of Bologna.
Lorenzo De Lellis, talk, “Data Work Management and the Procedural Rationality of AI”. - 02/07/2025 - Interpreting Intelligent Machines Symposium. AI Forensics Project, Berlin.
Matteo Pasquinelli, talk, "Interpretative Semiotics and Interpretable Machines". - 27/06/2025 - Telemaco Summer School 2025 [ITA]. Jonas Milano.
Francesca Carta, talk, “Presupposti linguistici dell’IA.” - 11/06/2025 - Geoanthropology: Metabolism, Legal Imagination and Geopraxis. Ca' Foscari University.
Matteo Pasquinelli, talk, “Labour, Automation, and Language in the Global Technosphere of AI.” - 09/06/2025 - La politica di Big Tech [ITA]. Event by IntoTheBlackBox at the University of Bologna.
Lorenzo De Lellis, talk, “Amazon Mechanical Turk e l’invenzione del microwork: dal labeling di ImageNet al fine-tuning dei Large Language Models.” - 05/06/2025 - Operativism: Social Intelligence and Mediation. ICI Berlin.
Matteo Pasquinelli, talk, “Dimensionality Explosion: Image Modelling from Modern Perspective to AI.” - 26/05/2025 - Collective Agency in the Era of Authoritarian Automation. Royal Institute of Art Stockholm.
Matteo Pasquinelli, talk, "World Model Collapse: Information Entropy and the Implosion of Technofeudalism.” - 17/05/2025 - Model Collapse Festival. Kunsthalle Wien.
Matteo Pasquinelli, lecture, “World Model Collapse: Information Entropy and the Implosion of Technofeudalism.” - 10/05/2025 - Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images Conference. IUAV Venice.
Matteo Pasquinelli, lecture, “Artificial Intelligence in the History of Cultural Techniques.”
Tommaso Guariento, talk, “Vector Space as a Symbolic Form. The Distributional Hypothesis and the Geometry of Meaning.” - 24/04/2024 - Historical Materialism Conference Athens. Panteion University, Athens.
Matteo Pasquinelli, lecture, “Knowledge automation from the perspective of value form and labour form.”
Francesca Carta, talk, “AI and psychometrics: Socio-classification in a monopolised digital age.”
Lorenzo de Lellis, talk, “From rational agents to taskbots: A genealogy of human functions encoding through abstraction and labour.”
Giorgio Ciani, talk, “Pattern recognition in warfare and political economy: From perceptron to pattern-of-life analysis.” - 28/03/2025 - 10th International Workshop on Historical Epistemology. University of Lübeck.
Francesca Carta, talk, “Beck Depression Inventory: from Psychometrics to Therapy.”
2024
- 20/12/2024 - Quattro utopie necessarie per il lavoro digitale [ITA]
IUAV University Venice. Discussants: Francesca Carta, Giorgio Ciani, Lorenzo De Lellis. - 12/11/2024 - Conference on digital and platform labour
Ca' Foscari University Venice. Discussant: Matteo Pasquinelli - 29/05/2024 - Artificial Intelligence Design and the Logic of Social Cooperation
University of Lisbon, CADA. Human Entities series. Lecture by Matteo Pasquinelli. - 28/05/2024 - Labour, Intelligence, Automation: Tracing AI’s coming of Age
University of Lisbon, School of Arts and Humanities. Workshop with Matteo Pasquinelli. - 27/05/2024 - The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
University of Cambridge, online. Talk by Matteo Pasquinelli. - 24/05/2024 - Theories of automation in between labour and value form
Potsdam University. Machine of the Social conference. Talk by by Matteo Pasquinelli. - 26/01/2024 - Assistants, Avatars, Atmospheres Conference
Bauhaus University Weimar. Keynote lecture by Matteo Pasquinelli.