M. Beatrice Fazi
@mbfazi.bsky.social
Philosophy, Computation, Technoscience. Associate Professor at the University of Sussex (UK). Author of “Contingent Computation” (2018).
University page
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p378975-beatrice-fazi
University page
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p378975-beatrice-fazi
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💥📖 My new publication, Cave Machines: On the Platonic Representation Hypothesis, is out now with Aksioma, as PostScriptUM #56.
📍 I will launch it with a lecture at Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, on 13 October at 6pm.
Preview and order the book here: aksioma.org/cave-machines
📍 I will launch it with a lecture at Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, on 13 October at 6pm.
Preview and order the book here: aksioma.org/cave-machines
💥📖 My new publication, Cave Machines: On the Platonic Representation Hypothesis, is out now with Aksioma, as PostScriptUM #56.
📍 I will launch it with a lecture at Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, on 13 October at 6pm.
Preview and order the book here: aksioma.org/cave-machines
📍 I will launch it with a lecture at Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, on 13 October at 6pm.
Preview and order the book here: aksioma.org/cave-machines
October 7, 2026 at 11:25 AM
💥📖 My new publication, Cave Machines: On the Platonic Representation Hypothesis, is out now with Aksioma, as PostScriptUM #56.
📍 I will launch it with a lecture at Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, on 13 October at 6pm.
Preview and order the book here: aksioma.org/cave-machines
📍 I will launch it with a lecture at Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, on 13 October at 6pm.
Preview and order the book here: aksioma.org/cave-machines
Structuralism lovers and haters: see you at Duke University 💎
“Structure, Sign, and Play in the Age of AI” conference, 22-23 Oct 2026.
An outstanding line-up! Programme in the poster 🖼️
I will present my new publication, “Cave Machines” (Aksioma, 2026).
“Structure, Sign, and Play in the Age of AI” conference, 22-23 Oct 2026.
An outstanding line-up! Programme in the poster 🖼️
I will present my new publication, “Cave Machines” (Aksioma, 2026).
October 1, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Structuralism lovers and haters: see you at Duke University 💎
“Structure, Sign, and Play in the Age of AI” conference, 22-23 Oct 2026.
An outstanding line-up! Programme in the poster 🖼️
I will present my new publication, “Cave Machines” (Aksioma, 2026).
“Structure, Sign, and Play in the Age of AI” conference, 22-23 Oct 2026.
An outstanding line-up! Programme in the poster 🖼️
I will present my new publication, “Cave Machines” (Aksioma, 2026).
📍30 September: I am speaking at the final symposium of Spirits in Complexity, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. My talk is based on a publication forthcoming with Aksioma.
Many thanks to Thomas Grill and the project team for the invitation.
www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2989715...
Many thanks to Thomas Grill and the project team for the invitation.
www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2989715...
September 16, 2026 at 10:15 AM
📍30 September: I am speaking at the final symposium of Spirits in Complexity, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. My talk is based on a publication forthcoming with Aksioma.
Many thanks to Thomas Grill and the project team for the invitation.
www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2989715...
Many thanks to Thomas Grill and the project team for the invitation.
www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2989715...
Some news, now that the paperwork is signed. I have been awarded a Fellowship at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) at RWTH Aachen University, and will spend the next academic year in Germany. A year to read, to think, to write. Very much looking forward to it.
July 27, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Some news, now that the paperwork is signed. I have been awarded a Fellowship at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) at RWTH Aachen University, and will spend the next academic year in Germany. A year to read, to think, to write. Very much looking forward to it.
I am co-chairing Track 3 of Politics of the Machines 2027, taking place in Fukuoka, Japan, in March. Send us your abstract ✨
pom-conference.org/fukuoka-2027/
pom-conference.org/fukuoka-2027/
July 17, 2026 at 6:35 PM
I am co-chairing Track 3 of Politics of the Machines 2027, taking place in Fukuoka, Japan, in March. Send us your abstract ✨
pom-conference.org/fukuoka-2027/
pom-conference.org/fukuoka-2027/
July 15, 2026 at 8:47 AM
My latest essay is out📄"Off-Centre AI: On Alignment, Antihumanism and AI Ethics", published in Ars & Humanitas, in a special issue from Legacies of Antihumanism—the conference held at the University of Ljubljana in December 2024, where I gave a keynote. 🧵1/4
July 13, 2026 at 3:43 PM
My latest essay is out📄"Off-Centre AI: On Alignment, Antihumanism and AI Ethics", published in Ars & Humanitas, in a special issue from Legacies of Antihumanism—the conference held at the University of Ljubljana in December 2024, where I gave a keynote. 🧵1/4
Last Tuesday I spoke at The Data Interface event at the University of York—a great workshop on the many ways data meets the social world. Thanks to David Beer and the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life for the invite.
June 26, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Last Tuesday I spoke at The Data Interface event at the University of York—a great workshop on the many ways data meets the social world. Thanks to David Beer and the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life for the invite.
This is today at 5pm in Aachen ✨
June 3, 2026 at 10:35 AM
This is today at 5pm in Aachen ✨
Reposted by M. Beatrice Fazi
❓ Are large language models (LLMs) only processors of correlations or are they capable of causal reasoning?
Join us next week for a lecture by M. Beatrice Fazi on the nature of causation and the role of LLMs as semiotic machines.
➡️ Abstract and registration: khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/causat...
Join us next week for a lecture by M. Beatrice Fazi on the nature of causation and the role of LLMs as semiotic machines.
➡️ Abstract and registration: khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/causat...
May 27, 2026 at 1:09 PM
❓ Are large language models (LLMs) only processors of correlations or are they capable of causal reasoning?
Join us next week for a lecture by M. Beatrice Fazi on the nature of causation and the role of LLMs as semiotic machines.
➡️ Abstract and registration: khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/causat...
Join us next week for a lecture by M. Beatrice Fazi on the nature of causation and the role of LLMs as semiotic machines.
➡️ Abstract and registration: khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/causat...
May 6, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Reposted by M. Beatrice Fazi
i'm talking about Language Machines with @mbfazi.bsky.social and @emmastamm.bsky.social and Erik Voss at Columbia on Thursday
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TML Book Talk: Cultural AI with Leif Weatherby
Date & Time:
Thursday, April 30, 5.30 PM (ET)
Location:
The Goodman Room, Russel Hall 306
Teachers College, Columbia University
525 West 120th Street
New York, NY 10027
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April 27, 2026 at 2:41 PM
i'm talking about Language Machines with @mbfazi.bsky.social and @emmastamm.bsky.social and Erik Voss at Columbia on Thursday
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Last week Alex, Matt, and I were interviewed on Ljubljana’s Radio Študent—one of Europe’s longest-running independent radio stations—about our co-authored book "Digital Theory" 🎙️
The interview is in English. Click "intervju" at the link below to go straight to it.
radiostudent.si/kultura/povr...
The interview is in English. Click "intervju" at the link below to go straight to it.
radiostudent.si/kultura/povr...
⮎ Fazi, Galloway & Handelman // Digitalna teorija ⮌
radiostudent.si
April 20, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Last week Alex, Matt, and I were interviewed on Ljubljana’s Radio Študent—one of Europe’s longest-running independent radio stations—about our co-authored book "Digital Theory" 🎙️
The interview is in English. Click "intervju" at the link below to go straight to it.
radiostudent.si/kultura/povr...
The interview is in English. Click "intervju" at the link below to go straight to it.
radiostudent.si/kultura/povr...
I will be speaking at @rwth.bsky.social on 3 June 2026.
My talk—"Causation as Sign Action: Semiotic Empiricism and the Causal Complexity of Large Language Models"—draws on my new work (soon to be published) on Peircean semiotics and LLMs.
khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/causat...
My talk—"Causation as Sign Action: Semiotic Empiricism and the Causal Complexity of Large Language Models"—draws on my new work (soon to be published) on Peircean semiotics and LLMs.
khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/causat...
March 24, 2026 at 1:23 PM
I will be speaking at @rwth.bsky.social on 3 June 2026.
My talk—"Causation as Sign Action: Semiotic Empiricism and the Causal Complexity of Large Language Models"—draws on my new work (soon to be published) on Peircean semiotics and LLMs.
khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/causat...
My talk—"Causation as Sign Action: Semiotic Empiricism and the Causal Complexity of Large Language Models"—draws on my new work (soon to be published) on Peircean semiotics and LLMs.
khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/causat...
In this pilot episode for Asia Bazdyrieva's beautiful new podcast, Poetic Sadness, we talk about abstraction as world-making, computational aesthetics, synthesis, and digital butterflies🦋
Recorded at ÆSR in Vienna in December 2025 and out now🎙️
open.spotify.com/episode/6bzt...
Recorded at ÆSR in Vienna in December 2025 and out now🎙️
open.spotify.com/episode/6bzt...
March 23, 2026 at 6:05 PM
In this pilot episode for Asia Bazdyrieva's beautiful new podcast, Poetic Sadness, we talk about abstraction as world-making, computational aesthetics, synthesis, and digital butterflies🦋
Recorded at ÆSR in Vienna in December 2025 and out now🎙️
open.spotify.com/episode/6bzt...
Recorded at ÆSR in Vienna in December 2025 and out now🎙️
open.spotify.com/episode/6bzt...
I will be at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social on April 10th 2026 for the Semiotic Machines symposium, together with some of my favourite people on a brilliant lineup. See you there ✨
March 23, 2026 at 5:38 PM
I will be at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social on April 10th 2026 for the Semiotic Machines symposium, together with some of my favourite people on a brilliant lineup. See you there ✨
Reposted by M. Beatrice Fazi
The Acid Horizon podcast episode we recorded yesterday is already online.
open.spotify.com/episode/5wI3...
open.spotify.com/episode/5wI3...
February 20, 2026 at 8:03 PM
The Acid Horizon podcast episode we recorded yesterday is already online.
open.spotify.com/episode/5wI3...
open.spotify.com/episode/5wI3...
In Kraków!
I am a guest of the Institute of Philosophy, where I am giving an invited talk at the conference "Injustice, Community & the Digital in Contemporary Francophone Philosophy" (5-6 March 2026).
I am a guest of the Institute of Philosophy, where I am giving an invited talk at the conference "Injustice, Community & the Digital in Contemporary Francophone Philosophy" (5-6 March 2026).
March 6, 2026 at 9:34 AM
In Kraków!
I am a guest of the Institute of Philosophy, where I am giving an invited talk at the conference "Injustice, Community & the Digital in Contemporary Francophone Philosophy" (5-6 March 2026).
I am a guest of the Institute of Philosophy, where I am giving an invited talk at the conference "Injustice, Community & the Digital in Contemporary Francophone Philosophy" (5-6 March 2026).
Thanks to Ryan, Ranjodh and the University of Basel for hosting the Digital Theory book talk today 📘✨
March 4, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Thanks to Ryan, Ranjodh and the University of Basel for hosting the Digital Theory book talk today 📘✨
Reposted by M. Beatrice Fazi
This is happening today! Register @ tinyurl.com/DigitalTheory
March 4, 2026 at 8:08 AM
This is happening today! Register @ tinyurl.com/DigitalTheory
Another day, another book talk 📚
4 March 2026
6.30 CET / 12.30pm EST ⏰
Thanks to the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Basel for the invitation.
The talk is online and open to the public 💻🌍
Link (with registration): tinyurl.com/DigitalTheory
4 March 2026
6.30 CET / 12.30pm EST ⏰
Thanks to the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Basel for the invitation.
The talk is online and open to the public 💻🌍
Link (with registration): tinyurl.com/DigitalTheory
March 3, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Another day, another book talk 📚
4 March 2026
6.30 CET / 12.30pm EST ⏰
Thanks to the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Basel for the invitation.
The talk is online and open to the public 💻🌍
Link (with registration): tinyurl.com/DigitalTheory
4 March 2026
6.30 CET / 12.30pm EST ⏰
Thanks to the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Basel for the invitation.
The talk is online and open to the public 💻🌍
Link (with registration): tinyurl.com/DigitalTheory
Reposted by M. Beatrice Fazi
For any of you digital studies, media studies, film studies, humanities folks out there, this was a super good listen and went as fast as possible to read their new book; highly recommend!
The Acid Horizon podcast episode we recorded yesterday is already online.
open.spotify.com/episode/5wI3...
open.spotify.com/episode/5wI3...
February 27, 2026 at 5:08 PM
For any of you digital studies, media studies, film studies, humanities folks out there, this was a super good listen and went as fast as possible to read their new book; highly recommend!
The Acid Horizon podcast episode we recorded yesterday is already online.
open.spotify.com/episode/5wI3...
open.spotify.com/episode/5wI3...
February 20, 2026 at 8:03 PM
The Acid Horizon podcast episode we recorded yesterday is already online.
open.spotify.com/episode/5wI3...
open.spotify.com/episode/5wI3...
