Matteo Pasquinelli
Matteo Pasquinelli (PhD) is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscari University in Venice where he is coordinating the 5-year ERC project AIMODELS. His research focuses the intersection of philosophy of mind, political economy, and the automation of knowledge and cultural production.
Previously he as been teaching at Pratt Institute New York and at the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe, where he founded the research group on Artificial Intelligence and Media Philosophy KIM (2018-2023).
He edited the anthology Alleys of Your Mind: Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas (Meson Press, 2015) and wrote, with Vladan Joler, the visual essay "The Nooscope Manifested: AI as Instrument of Knowledge Extractivism" (AI & Society, 2022). For Verso Books, he wrote the monograph The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence (2023), which is forthcoming also in nine other languages other than English.
Among others, he published for the Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Qui Parle, Radical Philosophy, Les Mondes du Travail, South Atlantic Quarterly, Parrhesia, Theory Culture & Society, Multitudes, and e-flux.
Books
- editor, Media Activism: strategie e pratiche della comunicazione indipendente : mappa internazionale e manuale d'uso, Rome: DeriveApprodi, 2002, 234 pp. (Italian)
- Mediactivismo: estrategias y prácticas de la comunicación independiente, trans. Asamblea Florida Este, 2003. (Spanish)
- Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons, Rotterdam: NAi, 2008.
- 동물혼, trans. 서창현, Seoul: 갈무리, 2013, 444 pp. (Korean)
- editor, Gli algoritmi del capitale: accelerazionismo, macchine della conoscenza e autonomia del comune, Verona: Ombrecorte, 2014, 187 pp. (Italian)
- editor, Alleys of Your Mind: Augmented Intelligence and its Traumas, Lüneburg: Meson Press, 2015.
- The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence, London: Verso, 2023, viii+264 pp. Excerpt. Publisher. Author.