Looking forward to this joint book launch for Public Data Cultures together with Nick Srnicek’s Silicon Empires and Maya Ganesh’s Auto-Correct on Wednesday 3rd December, 7-9pm.

We’ll be joined by Noortje Marres and Joanna Zylinska for discussion.

You can find out more and register here. Further details are copied below.

Join us for a book launch event for Nick Srnicek’s Silicon Empires, Maya Ganesh’s Auto-Correct and Jonathan W. Y. Gray’s Public Data Cultures.

How are AI technologies shaping distributions of wealth and power? What can we learn from their fantasies and failures? How might we nurture alternative arrangements and other futures?

This evening will bring these three books into conversation. The authors will be joined by Joanna Zylinska and Noortje Marres. Copies of the books will be available and refreshments will be provided.

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Nick Srnicek is Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London and the author of Platform Capitalism (Polity, 2016) and Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI (Polity, 2025).

Maya Indra Ganesh is Associate Director at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge and author of Auto-Correct: The Fantasies and Failures of AI, Ethics, and the Driverless Car (ArtEZ Press, 2025).

Jonathan W. Y. Gray is Reader in Critical Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital Humanities, Co-Director of the Centre for Digital Culture, King’s College London and author of Public Data Cultures (Polity, 2025).

Noortje Marres is Professor in Science, Technology and Society at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick and most recently author of Digital Sociology: The Reinvention of Social Research (Polity, 2017) amongst other books.

Joanna Zylinska is Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice at the Department of Digital Humanities, Director of the Centre for Attention Studies, King’s College London and most recently author of The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI (MIT Press, 2023), amongst other books.

This event is co-organised by the Department of Digital Humanities, the Centre for Digital Culture and the Digital Futures Institute at King’s College London.