lecturer | former mathematician&computer scientist trained into STS, critical data studies and political ecology | investigating AI from a transdisciplinary perspective | writing a book on the materiality and supply chains of AI: from silicon to e-waste landfills (The Materiality of AI, Bristol University Press, 2027) | 🚲📖🌻
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Can it keep up the ruse?" npub1hpcj2qaq98nucu528clhsrxyn36pndajyjzjm049s3eqmalknvkszqpxwf ana vldv Spent my time yesterday in an archive in London and found interesting material regarding technology, feminism and the working class.
