Outcomes

Publications

• Pasquinelli, Matteo (2024) “Theories of Automation from the Industrial Factory to AI Platforms: An Overview of Political Economy and History of Science and Technology”, Tecnoscienza 15(1), 2024, 99–112 (ISSN 2038-3460). Matteo Pasquinelli's book received the Deutscher Prize 2024.
• Pasquinelli, Matteo (2023) "The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence", London: Verso Books (ISBN 9781788730068).
• Pasquinelli, Matteo (2023) “From Algorithmic Thinking to Thinking Machines: Four Theses on the Position of Artificial Intelligence in the History of Technoscience”, in: “Beyond Quantity: Research with Subsymbolic AI”, Bielefeld, Transcript Verlag, pp. 75-86 (ISBN 978-3-8394-6766-4).
• Pasquinelli, Matteo (2023) “Labour, Energy, and Information as Historical Configurations: Notes for a Political Metrology of the Anthropocene”, “Journal Of Interdisciplinary History Of Ideas”, vol. 11, pp. 1-31 (ISSN 2280-8574).
• Pasquinelli, Matteo (2022) “From Algorism to Algorithm: A Brief History of Calculation from the Middle Ages to the Present Day", ”Electra", vol. 15, pp. 93-102 (ISSN 2184-2108).

Outreach publications:

• Busson, Margherita (2024) "Neuronormativity and cognitive capitalism: in dialogue with Robert Chapman", Global Project blog.
• Pasquinelli, Matteo (2024) "La scuola non è un test di Turing. Contro l’IA come nuova metrica sociale”, Micromega, forthcoming.
• Pasquinelli, Matteo and Arif Kornweitz (2023), “The Sound of Multidimensional Space: How Avant-Garde Music Foreshadowed AI”, Catalogue of the 67th International Festival of Contemporary Music, Venice Biennale, 2023.

External reviews:

• Roy, Dibyadyuti and Aditya Deshbandhu (2024) "Digital Humanities", “The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory”, Oxford University Press.
• Mussgnug, Alexander and Sabina Leonelli (2024) “A critical framing of data for development: Historicizing data relations and AI“, “Philsci Archive” (pre-print).
• Sanvitale, Ginevra (2024) Review of The Eye of the Master, “Technology and Culture” 65(3).
• Petricini, Tiffany (2024) Review of The Eye of the Master, “Postdigital Science and Education”, 28 September 2024.
• Mariátegui, José-Carlos (2024) Review of The Eye of the Master, “AI & Society”, 3 July 2024.
• Nyrup, Rune  (2024) “Eyeing up the master’s tools“, “Metascience”, 20 September 2024.

Events

• 10/05/2025 - Conference on ethics and aesthetics of artificial images
  IUAV University Venice. Keynote lecture by Matteo Pasquinelli.
• 29/10/2024 - Gottfried Leibniz in the World of AI
  Talk by Audrey Borowski, Bonn University / Cambridge University.
• 13/06/2024 - Mechanics of Alienation: The General Intellect Question in the Technosphere
  Workshop in collaboration with UNESCO Water Heritage Chair and French Institute of Pondicherry (India)
• 14/06/2024 - The Machine of Language: Knowledge Economy and Linguistic Labour After AI
  Workshop in collaboration with Laboratory of Social Research (LARIS)
• 26/06/2024 - The Mismeasure of Mind: Models of Intelligence and the History of Madness
  Workshop in collaboration with Franco Basaglia Archive (Venice) and NICHE.
• 05/07/2024 - Translating Extinction: Policing the Boundaries of Language and Nature
  Workshop in collaboration with KIM Research Group (Karlsruhe).
• 30/01/2024 - "The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence" 
  Book presentation with Matteo Pasquinelli. 

External events:

• 19/11/2024 - Mind, Languages and Societies [ITA]
  Seminar with Matteo Paquinelli at the University of Bologna
• 12/11/2024 - Conference on digital and platform labour [ITA]
  Ca' Foscari University Venice. Response by Matteo Pasquinelli.
• 29/05/2024 - "Artificial Intelligence Design and the Logic of Social Cooperation"
  University of Lisbon, CADA. Lecture by Matteo Pasquinelli at Human Entities series.
• 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 event. Talk by Matteo Pasquinelli.
• 24/05/2024 - "Theories of automation in between labour and value form"
  Potsdam University. Paper by Matteo Pasquinelli at Machine of the Social conference.
• 15/05/2024 - “Che cosa è un pattern? Una storia dell’IA come automazione della percezione”
  Lecture by Matteo Pasquinelli at IUAV, Venice.
• 10/04/2024 - “Micro-Managers and Micro-Workers: The New Composition of Labour in the age of AI”
  Talk by Matteo Pasquinelli, Platform Economy, round table, Ca' Foscari / CGIL Mestre.
• 20/03/2024 - "Intelligence of the Natural, the Artificial and the Social: A Decolonial Perspective"
  Villa Romana, Florence. Keynote lecture by Matteo Pasquinelli.
• 19/03/2024 - "The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence" 
  University of Siena. Book presentation with Matteo Pasquinelli.  
• 26/01/2024 - Assistants, Avatars, Atmospheres conference.
  Bauhaus University Weimar. Lecture by Matteo Pasquinelli.