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Cecilia Rikap
@ceciliarikap.bsky.social
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Assoc. Prof in Econ & Head of Research at @ucl-iipp.bksy.social
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tspbackground.bsky.social
#BuyEuropean reicht zur Stärkung des Digitalstandorts Europa nicht aus, argumentiert @ceciliarikap.bsky.social. Sie hat untersucht, wie sehr Google, Microsoft, Amazon und Meta inzwischen mit der #KI-Forschungslandschaft verwoben sind. Direkt, aber vor allem indirekt (Test/Abo) 👉 t1p.de/ssacc
Zitat von Dr. Cecilia Rikap, außerordentliche Professorin für Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Forschungsleiterin am Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose des University College London: „Die EU hat das Ausmaß der Kontrolle durch US-Firmen noch nicht erkannt“ aus dem Interview mit aus dem aktuellen BRiefing Digitalisierung & KI.
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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histmat.bsky.social
Our third plenary, 'Resurgent Reaction and the Rise of New Authoritarianisms' with Wendy Brown, Cecilia Rikap, Jeffery Webber and Rafeef Ziadah, is now being live streamed! Join, comrades!
Resurgent Reaction and the Rise of New Authoritarianisms
YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory
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November 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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maiapal.bsky.social
Saturday night plenary with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social and Wendy Brown on new authoritarianisms - full house. @histmat.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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kaikodden.bsky.social
At my new working group on International Relations and Political Economy @Universität Bielefeld, I have a full postdoc position for 3 years (plus x) to offer. Do apply and ask if you have any questions: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/459... in German here: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/459...
Research Position in the working group “Internat...
<div style="text-align: justify;">We are looking for an engaged and socially aware social scientist with a PhD or very close to comple...
uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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paologerbaudo.bsky.social
The last 2 weeks saw major cloud outages from #AmazonWebServices and #MicrosoftAzure affecting thousands of websites. As @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and I argue in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social this event is a wakeup call about the security risks of tech dependency. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...
Why Digital Sovereignty Matters
Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud blackouts paralysed public services across the globe this autumn — a warning of what happens when essential infrastructure is left in the hands of private US monopolies.
tribunemag.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM
ceciliarikap.bsky.social
What can we learn from @awscloud.bsky.social and @microsoft.com recent cloud blackouts?

The extent of dependency is so deep & widespread that we must develop #digital #sovereignty

This is what @paologerbaudo.bsky.social & I explain for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...
Why Digital Sovereignty Matters
Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud blackouts paralysed public services across the globe this autumn — a warning of what happens when essential infrastructure is left in the hands of private US monopolies.
tribunemag.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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iipp-ucl.bsky.social
🎤 Historical Materialism 2025 Conference

IIPP Head of Research Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social will be contributing to the 22nd annual Historical Materialism, running from 6-9 November 2025 at @soasuni.bsky.social , London.

🔗 Learn more here: buff.ly/W8Kl1RJ

@histmat.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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wavesblog.bsky.social
Sequel of "The Billion Dollar Code"? 🍿
techmeme.com Techmeme @techmeme.com · 24d
USC sues Google in Texas federal court, alleging that Google Earth, Maps, and Google Street View violate its patents for overlaying 2D images onto 3D models (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
October 29, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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iipp-ucl.bsky.social
🎤 Technology, power and exploitation

Today, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social will be speaking with @lmittendrein.bsky.social about intellectual monopolies and the struggle for digital sovereignty at the latest instalment of @attac.at's discussion series.

🔗 Learn more [DE]: buff.ly/vhKuu4M
October 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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cedricdurand.bsky.social
"By preaching that technology shaped by capital is the ultimate horizon, Aghion implicitly accepts that nature, labour and society are second-order variables, subordinated to a fetishized technical devenir". @nobelprize.bsky.social @newleftreview.bsky.social
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Cédric Durand, Neo-Schumpeterian — Sidecar
On Philippe Aghion.
newleftreview.org
October 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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iipp-ucl.bsky.social
🎤 How big tech companies profit from sustainability.

In a recent interview with @intercept.com.br, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social outlines how #BigTech companies are controlling and guiding the ecological transition.

🔗 Read more here [PT]: buff.ly/gKdjJnz
October 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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iipp-ucl.bsky.social
🎤 How big tech companies profit from sustainability.

In a recent interview with @intercept.com.br, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social outlines how #BigTech companies are controlling and guiding the ecological transition.

🔗 Read more here [PT]: buff.ly/Bj4cNnM
October 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
ceciliarikap.bsky.social
A must read paper on how Big Tech uses start-ups from Spain and Brazil to advance their political interests

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sidneyrothstein.bsky.social Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · Oct 6
Out now in Competition & Change
@compchange.bsky.social

“Dependent development in digital
capitalism: The politics of startup
policies in the new periphery”

@journals.sagepub.com
#polisky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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first page of "Dependent development in digital capitalism: The politics of startup policies in the new periphery." abstract: As digital technology’s economic importance increases, policymakers pivot to supporting startups – new, small, high-risk firms that produce technological innovation. Tracing the passage of startup policies in Brazil and Spain between 2014 – 2022, this article argues that startup policies do little to reduce peripheral countries’ dependence on the core. In each case, startups advocated for these policies by relying on financial and organizational resources from the giant US-based technology firms known as “Big Tech.” The article makes three contributions to the framework of dependent development. First, it reinforces existing observations that dependence on Big Tech extends beyond the Global South. Second, it revives political analysis of dependency, exploring the political conditions for economic development in the periphery. Lastly, it shows how startups’ political dependence on Big Tech implies important limits on startups’ ability to lead peripheral economies out of dependence on the core.
October 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
ceciliarikap.bsky.social
Want to know how Big Tech uses the need for an ecological transition for their own benefits? & How they govern us all?

The @intercept.com.br interviewed me about these issues based on my latest paper w @silviaweko.bsky.social

Read: www.intercept.com.br/2025/10/03/e...
www.intercept.com.br
October 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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cmmonwealth.bsky.social
“There’s no doubt that without decent bus services you get loneliness & social exclusion, so the impact is quite severe.”

We estimate that since the pandemic, buses in Shropshire alone have been cut by 60%.

Findings from our new project — Who Owns Britain? — on BBC Radio 4 🔈👇
September 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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iipp-ucl.bsky.social
✍️ These datacentres are the equivalent of “American military bases on British soil”

IIPP Prof. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social warns of the dangers of “hyperscale” datacentres built across Britain and owned by US tech giants in Aditya Chakrabortty's recent article.

🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/t0Nfn8v
September 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
ceciliarikap.bsky.social
Some ideas for those speaking Italian here: fondazionefeltrinelli.it/pubblico/big...
September 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
ceciliarikap.bsky.social
Great @theguardian.com piece by Aditya Chakrabortty on UK deepening its dependency on the US and its #TechGiants

I was featured saying “American military bases on British soil”. Strong, I know, but I find it a pertinent analogy

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Special relationship? There can be no such thing with a snake like Trump | Aditya Chakrabortty
Keir Starmer has spent the best part of a year cosying up to the US president. It will be no surprise when he gets bitten, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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iipp-ucl.bsky.social
⚡️How the US tech industry is shaping the transition to green energy.

IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social 's research into #BigTech’s role in the energy transition was featured in @markpeplow.bsky.social 's article for @nature.com.

✍️ Read the article here: buff.ly/Hq4GRnK
September 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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wafeurope.bsky.social
👏👏 @lobbycontrol.bsky.social for today's action calling for Break Up of Big Tech, starting with Google at the EU's Headquarters.
September 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
ceciliarikap.bsky.social
Is it possible to design a world where production is organised according to social, #community #needs and respecting #planetary #boundaries?

What are the techno-political basics needed for #democratically building such an alternative?

Join us in Geneva at a once in a lifetime workshop 👇👇
September 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
ceciliarikap.bsky.social
We know that #BigTech consumes tons of energy & water. What was missed is that they are also attempting to control ecological transition paths turning govs & societies even more dependent on them

This is the main finding of my new paper w @silviaweko.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
ceciliarikap.bsky.social
You can now watch the recording of HM Paris's plenary session "At the heart of the storm, thinking of capitalism and infrastructures" where I had the pleasure of speaking about digital technologies, corporate and political power.

Sandro Mezzadra and I spoke in English: youtu.be/RQnoKUZJATc?...
September 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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cmmonwealth.bsky.social
As @ceciliarikap.bsky.social explains, Big Tech controls much of the AI market behind the scenes, through venture capital investments, deals for access to cloud computing & influencing the overall direction of AI research toward large-scale language models.

www.common-wealth.org/publications...
Dynamics of Corporate Governance Beyond Ownership in AI
Big Tech dominates investment in AI technology; a public strategy for regulation is crucial to challenge uneven distributions of economic power.
www.common-wealth.org
September 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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feps-europe.eu
💔It’s time to break up Big Tech’s “broligarchy” - we need European digital sovereignty.

Launched at the European Parliament, read the latest policy brief “A progressive roadmap for expanding European digital sovereignty”.
📕https://bit.ly/ProgressiveRoadmapDigitalPB
September 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM