Centre for Digital Inquiry
I Quit! Between Resignation & Refusal
On this episode of CDI-TV, we're quiet quitting before joining the great resignation - or perhaps we're mad as hell and we're not gonna take it anymore! Join us in person or online for a live research conversation in which we try to uncover what quitting and resignation tell us about our relationship to the meaning, practices and politics of work culture, and whether giving up has anything in common with anti-work, neo-Luddism and other strategies of refusal. This hybrid event will be an open conversation between Cecilia Ghidotti, a scholar of quitting in the cultural industries, and Craig Gent, a researcher and activist working in the tradition of operaismo.
Location: FAB1.16 and CDI-TV.
Time: Monday of 23rd June, 17:00-18:00
The livestream URL will be shared on the day - stay tuned!
Blockchain vs. AI: Doing Network History in Our Current Situation
Public Talk by Sebastian Giessmann
Blockchain and AI clash and converge as distinct yet increasingly entangled network technologies—one rooted in immutability and decentralization, the other in generative acceleration and pattern extraction. Despite their differing logics, both drive extractive, energy-intensive infrastructures under late capitalism. This talk examines how their convergence, with a particular focus on cases like Worldcoin, shapes a new and contested 'seventh' layer of network culture.
Location: FAB0.08
Time: Wednesday 25th of June, 10:00-11:00
Artificial Societies
Friday 7th March 2025, 9:30-17:30, Oculus Building (OC0.04), University of Warwick
Social life is increasingly being the object of interventions from engineering and economics. Platforms, AI and Big Tech are driving a growing engineering of the social, often without transparency and accountability. This event encourages interdisciplinary dialogue to problematise our present, explore alternatives, and address societal concerns amid growing public backlash against Big Tech.
Keynote Speakers: Noortje Marres and Mona Sloane
This event is co-organised by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies with the Edinburgh Futures Institute in collaboration with the Centre for Digital Inquiry and the International Sociological Association’s Working Group 10 on Digital Sociology.
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