Matteo Pasquinelli 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 forms of knowledge automation such as artificial intelligence.
His book The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence (Verso, 2023) won the Deutscher Prize 2024 and is currently being translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.
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).
Among others, he published for the Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Tecnoscienza, Qui Parle, Radical Philosophy, Les Mondes du Travail, South Atlantic Quarterly, Parrhesia, Theory Culture & Society, Multitudes, and e-flux.
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).
Short biography
Matteo Pasquinelli 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 ERC project AIMODELS. His book The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence (Verso, 2023) won the Deutscher Prize 2024.
