Jose Marichal
@profmarichal
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Pol Sci Prof @ CalLutheran Author of "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem" (Bristol 2025) and "Machine Liberalism" (Intellect/UofChicago Forthcoming ).
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Book is officially out today from @BrisUniPress .... grab a copy.. or 10!!! https://t.co/wG7vZZPRHS
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem - Renegotiating the Socio-Technical Contract; How is AI reshaping democracy? From data commodification to algorithmic control, this book exposes the hidden...
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“It has been one minute, and you really cannot say anything?... If you don’t remember what you wrote, you don’t feel ownership. Do you even care?” Nataliya Kosmyna, MIT Media Lab research scientist on the effects of ChatGPT on writing and retention. https://t.co/JVkCXGgij1
nytimes.com
A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. What to do?
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From my book -- "The shift to algorithmically informed aesthetics moves us away from an appreciation of novelty, aesthetic innovation, or the cultivation of individual voice towards consumer preferences and audience engagement." https://t.co/wG7vZZQpxq
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem - Renegotiating the Socio-Technical Contract; How is AI reshaping democracy? From data commodification to algorithmic control, this book exposes the hidden...
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Good read on the need to defend reasonableness in the current age... similar to my view that we're not ready for the age of algorithmic enchantment...
techpolicy.press
New, creative thinking is needed to address the tech policy challenges of the coming decade, writes José Marichal.
It's fashionable to disparage the Enlightenment. But as the modern world slides into bigotry and superstition it's clear how extraordinary and precious its achievements were. We have to fight for Enlightenment values. https://t.co/6iAHWBkKvk
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Judge a book by its cover. The book that @MCoeckelbergh and I wrote on #LLMs and #GenAI--"Communicative #AI" @politybooks--is featured on the "Better Images of AI" blog. https://t.co/2v5GEgfZlG
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In today's piece, Amanda Patchin reviews Byung-Chul Han’s book "In Praise of the Earth:" Han turns so completely toward wholeness that his writing seems an alien arrival ... Writing, perhaps, not even to be read but simply to praise ... https://t.co/XyhzPnSKW2
frontporchrepublic.com
Han turns so completely toward wholeness that his writing seems an alien arrival ... Writing, perhaps, not even to be read but simply to praise ...
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Silicon Empires is out now in the UK! I'm excited to have it out and hear what people think. There's an enormous amount happening every day in AI, and it's difficult to gain a stable perspective. I wrote the book to try and get some hold on that constant flux. 🧵
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In 'You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem', José Marichal examines how our reliance on tech companies trades personal freedom for algorithmic control, warning that this threatens democracy. @profmarichal Listen here:
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Podcast Episode · New Books Network · 10/21/2025 · 32m
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Evidence that academics have been complaining about service roles for about 3000 years...
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Halfway through the PBS Henry Kissinger documentary. My takeaway so far is that what's different today compared to the Nixon years is that a fragmented media environment allows you to "hide in plain sight." So you don't need secrecy to achieve realist foreign policy goals.
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Good essay... listening to a podcast about Constant's view of the need to merge the "modern view of freedom" of rights based liberalism with the "classical view" of community/solidarity. The big question is to whom we are obligated.....
Hakan Altinay reminds us that political rights entail political duties: "if we had to imagine categories of people who have rights but not responsibilities, only infants and the most absolutist of all rulers would meet the criteria."
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A quote from my @BrisUniPress book: "Should we as citizens of liberal democracies remain problematic outliers, defying categorization and optimization (by algorithms?" Does democracy depend on unpredictably subjects? https://t.co/wG7vZZQpxq
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem - Renegotiating the Socio-Technical Contract; How is AI reshaping democracy? From data commodification to algorithmic control, this book exposes the hidden...
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We are a culture algorithmically encouraged to "fix" our views of the world and to shut out alternative discourses. This ultimately diminishes us as humans..... My thoughts in @FrontPorchRepub
https://t.co/cMmApHMyIn
frontporchrepublic.com
When the algorithm identifies someone as a “gang member” based on human-generated criteria, the model’s “ground truth,” however flawed, becomes a stand-in for reality.
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Paperback day for Liberalism as a Way of Life, @PrincetonUPress. I’ve been moved and amazed by the book’s reception—thank you to everyone who’s read, taught, or shared it. If you’re so inclined, give it one more repost for the road.
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Love this Iris Murdoch quote -- “In the moral life the enemy is the fat relentless ego”
americamagazine.org
Rather than framing moral philosophy as just another form of epistemology (how can we know what to do?), Iris Murdoch was asking a more classical question: “How can we make ourselves morally better?”...
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The analog resistance is afoot! It includes coloring books and crochet needles!! https://t.co/RoBSztnT2v
axios.com
It's part of a bigger return to offline hobbies.
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Grateful to Jake Chanenson for interviewing me about my currrent book "You Must Remain an Algorithmic Problem" on @NewBooksNetwork podcast. I'm a devoted listener so it is a thrill to be a tiny droplet in a vast ocean of knowledge! https://t.co/jYlZzk9MMy
newbooksnetwork.com
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This reinforces a view I have that we're moving from a reason/reasonableness based discourse space to one based on aesthetics and storytelling... without an editor "evidence" is likely to be used as a storytelling device primarily.
The decline of traditional news websites isn’t great news per se. There is outrageously good stuff being published on Substack but it’s all done without editors. As a writer myself I appreciate how helpful editors are. Journalism is increasingly replaced by opinion pieces. The
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Had a great conversation today with @citizencyborg and Nir Eisikovitz on the @IEET podcast Prosthetic Gods about my book. It's one of my favorite podcasts.. Always a stimulating conversation so it was a treat to be part of it! @BrisUniPress
https://t.co/wG7vZZQpxq
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem - Renegotiating the Socio-Technical Contract; How is AI reshaping democracy? From data commodification to algorithmic control, this book exposes the hidden...
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I'll give you a boost with my 30 subscribers 😅😂
at 30,000 followers i will reveal what is wrong with economics
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On AI relationships -- "These interactions preserve the sensation of connection without the painful task of having to ponder questions like: “does this person really love me?” or “how do I need to change to become a better partner for my spouse”? " #AI
https://t.co/UUnHDzBmv1
techpolicy.press
New, creative thinking is needed to address the tech policy challenges of the coming decade, writes José Marichal.
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