Biography

Matteo Pasquinelli

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 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 currently being translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.

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.


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 5-year ERC project AIMODELS. Among other publications, he wrote the book The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence (London: Verso, 2023).