Publications
Call for papers
We are pleased to announce the launch of a call for papers for the upcoming themed issue of The Cambridge Forum on AI, titled "The New Geometry of Language: AI Models in Critical Perspective". This themed issue aims to critically explore the philosophical, economical, political and psychological implications of recent Large Language Models. The issue will be guest edited by Matteo Pasquinelli (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), Amira Moeding (Cambridge University) and Tommaso Guariento (Ca' Foscari University of Venice).
Submission deadlines
- Abstract submission: December 1, 2025
- Final paper submission: March 30, 2026
How to submit
Interested researchers are invited to submit an abstract of 500 words outlining their proposed study, methodology, and original contribution to the themed issue.
We invite interdisciplinary reflections on LLMs, including hybrid contributions located between humanities, computer science, and critical engineering, on the following topics:
- The formalisation and mathematisation of language
- The history of LLMs and its relationship to AI
- The political economy of LLMs between labour and market
- The ecological cost of language automation
- The issue of anthropomorphization of chatbots
- Decolonial and anti-colonial approaches to language generation
- The problem of meaning and grounding in LLMs
- Computational linguistics and neo-structuralism
- Philosophy of language after language automation
- Translation studies in the age of machine translation
- Low resources language in the world of LLMs
- The issue of model collapse in LLMs
For full details on the scope and thematic interests of the issue, please consult the official call for papers.
Monographies
- Pasquinelli, Matteo (2025) Nell’occhio dell’algoritmo: Storia e critica dell’intelligenza artificiale [ITA]. Roma: Carocci, 2025 (ISBN 9788829025534). Italian translation by Emanuele Lepore e Giulia Gandolfi of the following.
- Pasquinelli, Matteo (2023) The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence. London: Verso Books (ISBN 9781788730068). Winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2024 [ITA] and translated also in Arabic, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Turkish, Russian, and Spanish among others.
Class A publications (Open Access)
- Pasquinelli, Matteo (forthcoming) “Vectors for Workers: Models of Automation and Autonomy in the Long AI Century”, Historical Materialism (ISSN 14654466).
- 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), 99-112 (ISSN 20383460).
- Pasquinelli, Matteo (2023) “Labour, Energy, and Information as Historical Configurations: Notes for a Political Metrology of the Anthropocene”, Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas 11, 1-31 (ISSN 22808574).
Scientific publications (Open Access)
- Caffoni, Paolo (2025). ‘The Resource Debate in Machine Translation and Large Language Models’. In: Friese, H. et al. (eds) Handbuch Soziale Praktiken und Digitale Alltagswelten. Wiesbaden: Springer (ISBN 9783658084608). Funded in cooperation with AI Forensics project, Volkswagen Stiftung.
- Pasquinelli, Matteo (2024) “La vita non è un test di Turing. Contro l’IA come nuova metrica sociale” [ITA], Micromega 6/2024 (ISSN 03947378).
- Caffoni, Paolo (2024) “Il costo del linguaggio. Dal telegrafo a ChatGPT” [ITA], Micromega 6/2024 (ISSN 0394-7378).
- Babu, Sentil and Gopal Ganesh, (2024) "IA e agricoltura: il caso dell'Agri Stack indiano” [ITA] Micromega 6/2024 (ISSN 03947378).
English translation: “Socialization of Knowledge Extractivism: Agri Stack in India”, Politically Mathematics, 25 November 2024. - Impett, Leonardo (2024) ”La misura della bellezza" [ITA], Micromega 6/2024 (ISSN 03947378).
- 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, 75-86 (ISBN 9783839467664).
Course syllabi (Open Access)
- Pasquinelli, Matteo (2025-2026) Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, MA in Philosophical Sciences, Ca' Foscari University (forthcoming).
- Pasquinelli, Matteo (2024-2025) Philosophy of Mind [ITA], BA in Philosophy, Ca' Foscari University.
Pre-prints
- Andrews, Bruce (2024) "Optimal Brain Damage”, unpublished poem, ARCA repository Ca' Foscari University Venice.
Research communication
- Mattia Pello (2025) “L'IA come grande schema del lavoro umano [ITA]”, interview with Matteo Pasquinelli, Radio TV Svizzera Italiana, 27 August 2025.
- Metz, Cade (2025) "Why We’re Unlikely to Get Artificial General Intelligence Anytime Soon”, New York Times, 16 May 2025.
- Anderson, Shane (2025) "What is AI?”, interview with Matteo Pasquinelli, 032c magazine (Berlin), 8 January 2025.
- Busson, Margherita (2024) "Neuronormativity and cognitive capitalism: In dialogue with Robert Chapman", Global Project blog (Padova), 8 November 2024.
- Pasquinelli, Matteo and Arif Kornweitz (2023) “The Sound of Multidimensional Space: How Avant-Garde Music Foreshadowed AI”, Biennale Musica 2023, catalogue, Venice.
External reviews
- Tarnoff, Ben (2025), “Alla scoperta del lavoro dell’intelligenza artificiale [ITA]”, Internazionale, 17 April 2025.
- Tarnoff, Ben (2025), “The Labor Theory of AI”, The New York Review of Books, 27 March 2025.
- Omodeo, Pietro (2024) “The Social Dialectics of AI”, Monthly Review 76(6), November 2024.
- 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.