What I have been reading (some) 

Some of the readings most recently added to My Zotero here rendered through the ZotPress plug-in

McQuillan, D. (2025, June 26). Resisting the Techno-Fascist Takeover: Are We Ready for Decomputing? https://berlinergazette.de/resisting-the-techno-fascist-takeover-are-we-ready-for-decomputing/
Cardullo, P. (2016). Anime: A Critical Introduction (Book Review). Visual Studies.
Cardullo, P., Gupta, R., & Hakim, J. (2014). Sociology, Politics, Thinking and Acting: A Festschrift for Nira Yuval-Davis. 2.
Cardullo, P., Gupta, R., & Hakim, J. (2014). London: City of Paradox. 3.
Cardullo, P. (2007). Un Luogo: Docklands. Una Citta, 142. http://www.officinaemilia.unimo.it/.../materiali/UnaCitt%E0_urbinati.pdf
Cardullo, P. (2017). Gentrification in the mesh? Ethnography of Open Wireless Network. https://osf.io/jm68s/
Cardullo, P. (2012). Walking on the Rim: Towards a Geography of Resentment [University of London]. https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/7996/
Corsi­n Jimenez, A. (2025). Historia ilustrada del confinamiento. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. https://editorial.csic.es/publicaciones/libros/14378/0/historia-ilustrada-del-confinamiento.html
Ward, K., Abbruzzese, T., Bunnell, T., Cardullo, P., Chang, I.-C. C., Miller, B., Ribera-Fumaz, R., Shin, H., Spicer, Z., & Woods, O. (2025). A comparison of comparisons: Evidence from an international comparative study of ‘smart cities.’ Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 23996544251320260. https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544251320261
Hidalgo, C. (2024). Augmented Democracy [Center for Collective Learning,]. Augmented Democracy. https://augmenteddemocracy.com
Gonçalves, J. E., Ioannou, I., & Verma, T. (2024). No one-size-fits-all: Multi-actor perspectives on public participation and digital participatory platforms. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 382(2285), 20240111. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2024.0111
Calleja-López, A., Cancela ,Ekaitz, & and Jiménez, A. (2025). The Barcelona imaginaries: a decade of digital politics. City, 29(1–2), 28–51. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2025.2465926
Cardullo, P., & Kitchin, R. (2025). Provincialising platform citizenship: Citizen participation in and through civic platforms. Digital Geography and Society, 8, 100123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100123
Törnberg, P., & Söderström, O. (2025). Comparative platform urbanism: Cities in a world of platforms. Digital Geography and Society, 8, 100119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100119
Salvaggio, E. (2025, February 9). Anatomy of an AI Coup | TechPolicy.Press. https://techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-an-ai-coup
teona.tomashvili.22@ucl.ac.uk. (2024, December 3). Reclaiming digital sovereignty. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publications/2024/dec/reclaiming-digital-sovereignty
Slop Infrastructures 1 & 2. (2024, December 8). https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/slop-infrastructures-1-2/
Bernardes, C. B., & Queiroz, A. B. D. de. (2023). Engajamento Público nos Eventos Interativos do Portal E-Cidadania do Senado Federal. Revista Parlamento e Sociedade, 11(20), 41–60. https://parlamentoesociedade.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/254
aa. vv. (2025). From Citizen to Senator: How Brazil is Reimagining Citizen Engagement in the Age of AI. RebootDemocracy.AI. https://rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/ai-citizen-engagement-in-brazil
RebootDemocracy.AI Blog | News That Caught Our Eye #55. (2025). https://rebootdemocracy.ai/newsthatcaughtoureye/55
Hawkins, A. (2025, April 21). Humanoid workers and surveillance buggies: ‘embodied AI’ is reshaping daily life in China. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/21/humanoid-workers-and-surveillance-buggies-embodied-ai-is-reshaping-daily-life-in-china
Zhang, M., Xu, J., Zhao, P., & Chung, C. K. L. (n.d.). Thinking Through the Materiality of Big Data: An Outward-Looking Approach to Data Infrastructure. Tijdschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.70005
Reimer, J. (2025, April 14). An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/a-history-of-the-internet-part-1-an-arpa-dream-takes-form/
Machirori, M. (2024). Spending wisely. Ada Lovelace Institute. https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/spending-wisely-procurement/
Chen, C. (2025). China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch the AI boom. MIT Technological Review. https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/26/1113802/china-ai-data-centers-unused/
Edwards, B. (2025, March 25). Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries. Ars Technica. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/
[Audio recording] (No. Indexicality). (n.d.). [Audio recording]. https://shows.acast.com/the-data-fix/episodes/indexicality-with-roland-meyer-and-gillian-rose
Meyer, R. (2025). “Platform Realism”. AI Image Synthesis and the Rise of Generic Visual Content. Transbordeur, 9. https://doi.org/10.4000/13dwq
Tone, S. (2025, February 18). As DeepSeek Expands, China’s Cities Roll Out ‘AI Public Servants.’ #SixthTone. https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1016677
McQuillan, D. (2022). Resisting AI: an anti-fascist approach to artificial intelligence. Bristol University Press.

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