On the Concept of the Political in AI-Generated Art – Open Assembly

Plotting is an online publication gathered and organized by LASP Rietveld.

The Together Project

What if we could actually see the acknowledgement graph that connects humans and communities in a hidden economic web?

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500

Explore how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries in this large-scale research visualization.

eightyeightthirtyone

Building a graph of the Internet, one button at a time

Opinion | The Age of Interdisciplinary Slop

The corporate jargon of change masks the decimation of intellectual life.

The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility

The internet fights over anthropomorphism around the Hugging Face hack.

Capitalism Tech Stack Map — A Cross-Civilization Infographic (D3 Force)

Cyber-Marx

In this highly readable and thought-provoking work, Nick Dyer-Witheford assesses the relevance of Marxism in our time and demonstrates how the information age, far from transcending the historic conflict between capital and its laboring subjects, constitutes the latest battleground in their encounter. Dyer-Witheford maps the dynamics of modern capitalism, showing how capital depends for its operations not just on exploitation in the immediate workplace, but on the continuous integration of a whole series of social sites and activities, from public health and maternity to natural resource allocation and the geographical reorganization of labor power. He also shows how these sites and activities may become focal points of subversion and insurgency, as new means of communication vital for the smooth flow of capital also permit otherwise isolated and dispersed points of resistance to connect and combine with one another. Cutting through the smokescreen of high-tech propaganda, Dyer-Witheford predicts the advent of a reinvented, "autonomist" Marxism that will rediscover the possibility of a collective, communist transformation of society. Refuting the utopian promises of the information revolution, he discloses the real potentialities for a new social order in the form of a twenty-first-century communism based on the common sharing of wealth.

The 34th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization

The 34th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization will be held at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada from August 17-21, 2026. A PhD school will take place on August 17-18, 2026.

Artificial Intelligence | The Paper Pilot

The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology

Art or tool?

The Internet spaces I tend to inhabit have more polarisation than at many other recent times, and little explication of the worldviews that lead to different premises for discussion, that in turn...

Anthropic on Twitter / X

New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models.Of everything happening in your brain right now, only a tiny fraction is consciously accessible—thoughts you can describe, hold in mind, and reason with.We found a strikingly similar divide inside Claude. pic.twitter.com/aLUPBifxth— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) July 6, 2026

The shape of a knowledge worker

In a recent post, I threw around the term 'cognitive exponent' a bunch. Today I'd like to talk about a thing that might help us frame our investigation of what puts someone on the right side of that exponential graph.