Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one

It's been an immense pleasure writing this piece during my close immersion into the worlds of Marx and Bataille. I am grateful to Interregnum's editorial team and Ola Michalec for comments on earlier drafts of this text. If you are interested in hype as an economic force, this might be for you.

Haven't been on Bluesky for a while, so I am yet to share some highlights from previous weeks. Here's the 70-minute long interview I gave to the amazing Ian Tennant, honoured to be part of his great channel InnerSense. We touched on hype, AI, magic, capital, and more... youtu.be/UR7RU6v3nAs?...

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Join us on the 17th of November in the May Day Rooms! @velocitygravity.bsky.social @article19.co.uk @londoniww.bsky.social #ai #artificialintelligence #opendiscussion #abolishai #futureofai #freeinlondon

Very pleased to have contributed to this special issue of the British Educational Research Association blog: 'Reimagining a Just Early Childhood Education and Care Sector'. Julia Manning Morton and I wrote on the Islington Nursery Strike and activism across time. www.bera.ac.uk/blog/connect...

💹 As the political underpinnings of value creation become ever more pressing, Science as Culture is making available free access the commentary "On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation," by Fabian Muniesa, released almost ten years ago. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

Critical AI scholars! Stop anything you're doing. Baudrillard got us covered since 1999. #ImpossibleExchange

In today's post I take a proposal by Alondra Nelson for AI ELSI as a springboard to reflect on obstacles and opportunities for community engagement with AI makingsciencepublic.com/2025/09/19/p...

#HistoryEducation

First UG Induction Day talk today with my Programme Director in BA (Hons) Business Studies hat on - opened by playing Dropout Boogie to set up the scene yourolddroog.bandcamp.com/album/dropou...

And that's a wrap! @hypestudies.bsky.social conference over and out! 🫡Thank you so much to all the incredible people who attended. This is what academia can be 🫶

Thought provoking panel on Socio-ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare and Hype. Excellent presentations by Thomas Tsakalakis, Gili Yaron and Violet Petit-Steeghs, Sofie Kronberger, Albina Abzalova, and Roanne van Voorst, Ph.D. who also, masterfully, chaired the session.

Looks like an amazing conference organised by the @hypestudies.bsky.social crew in Barcelona. Great work from @danishanley.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social and many others.@maastrichtu.bsky.social.

@hypestudies.bsky.social hitting the town!

Here we go, keynote time @hypestudies.bsky.social conference. Packed room here and around 50 people tuning in online! @gemmamilne.bsky.social rocking it, as per. 🔥🔥🔥

💮Keynote time💮 🔥Excited to close the first day of our conference with a talk by the amazing Gemma Milne on 'Hype and the Age of Badness'🔥 Opening by our Dani Shanley! @gemmamilne.bsky.social @danishanley.bsky.social

A very special applause for our group's rising star Isa Luiten! Isa not only presented her amazing work on NewSpace and Hype from her forthcoming Thesis, but is also our tireless research assistant, keeping the Hype Studies group and conference in place. Thank you, Isa!

Hosted by Ezequiel Soriano, greetings from our Shitpublishing Workshop! 'Nuff said.

Fantastic panel today on 'AI Hype: Between Power and Resistance' with amazing contributions by Kat Fuller, @danmk.bsky.social, Tianqi Kou, Dana Calacci, Nasser Eledroos, and Jacek Mańko who also acted as stellar chair, debating power across multiple themes, from anti-trans hype to AGI!

TODAY! 🤩 @gemmamilne.bsky.social

We are most honoured to host our book launch event for Neil Pollock and Robin Williams's deeply anticipated 'After Hype'!

Please join some amazing researchers for a discussion of their research into the roles metaphors play in shaping perceptions: Exploring metaphors of AI: visualisations, narratives, and perceptions Online @hypestudies.bsky.social 10th Sept 2025 at 2pm-3pm CEST hypestudies.org/conference/c...

Suuuuuper HYPED!

I wish I was here;

Pulling up to @hypestudies.bsky.social at UOC Barcelona #uxmichaelco #TomorrowsEssaysBeingWrittenToday

We were really honoured to see a full room and so many online attendees at our conference's Opening session. Picture 4: what our audience is presently hyped about 😊😊

That was, and still is, my soundtrack for the city I visited to deliver my second ever conference presentation, revisiting 11 years later for my second ever conference co-chairing! Wish I had the same two weeks to explore as I did in 2014... @hypestudies.bsky.social youtu.be/qtdP-qAK_qs?...

Final preparations for our conference! 🎩 We are tremendously excited to welcome all participants in-person and online tomorrow for the first conference on Hype Studies! The time has come 😊😊 Wishing safe travels to all those who are joining us from afar!

Cemetery in New Orleans, 2019. flic.kr/p/2hVwDsr

"There is a link between finance and paranoia, and that link may well be inescapable." www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Athens, 2010. Who knows what happened to this kind person. flic.kr/p/7E4FqW

Composition from own original photographs, plus photoshop posterisation. Romania, 2012. flic.kr/p/bmMFGV

Yerevan, 2013. flic.kr/p/gvCtb3

Sublime Frequencies are always guaranteed success

Meanwhile, it's still #BandcampFriday so you can still support artists even more directly and show how cool you are by rejecting Spotify or YouTube for your musical explorations. My greatest fear of course is about the day Bandcamp will be bought by OpenAI but I hope that day never comes.

Join us at the hybrid keynote at the @hypestudies.bsky.social Conference by Gemma Milne, author of "Smoke & Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It" Wednesday 10Sept from 17 to 18:30 CEST. Free with previous registration: framaforms.org/dont-believe...