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 Principal Investigator of the 5-year ERC Consolidator project “The Culture of Algorithmic Models: Advancing the Historical Epistemology of Artificial Intelligence” (Website: AIMODELS). From 2017 to 2023 he was Professor of Media Philosophy at HfG Karlsruhe and founder and director of the research group Künstliche Intelligenz und Medienphilosophie (Website: KIM). His research focuses the intersection of philosophy of mind, political economy, and the automation of knowledge and cultural production.

Among other publications, 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 published the monograph The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence (2023). 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.