Philipp Seuferling
@philippseuferling.bsky.social
Lecturer in Communications | School of Critical Studies | University of Glasgow. Visiting Fellow at LSE Media and Communications. Media technology, border regimes, and their histories.
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For our series on the cybernetic border, @philippseuferling.bsky.social reads Ivan Chaar López alongside the writings of Walter Benjamin.
“Together, they provide urgent lessons to understand not only how the past shapes today’s deadly borders.”
“Together, they provide urgent lessons to understand not only how the past shapes today’s deadly borders.”
Tech, Stones, and Stories: How the Violence of Border Tech is a Historical Matter - Public Books
Border technologies live within loops of failure → crisis → fix → failure → crisis → fix, eternally to be tested. It will work, promise! Just wait for one more iteration
www.publicbooks.org
October 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
For our series on the cybernetic border, @philippseuferling.bsky.social reads Ivan Chaar López alongside the writings of Walter Benjamin.
“Together, they provide urgent lessons to understand not only how the past shapes today’s deadly borders.”
“Together, they provide urgent lessons to understand not only how the past shapes today’s deadly borders.”
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New at PB: Each day this week, we’re publishing a series on the cybernetic border, which contributions from Iván Chaar López, @philippseuferling.bsky.social, @kalindivora.bsky.social, and @gleemie.bsky.social.
Borders Are War by Other Means - Public Books
The border today is and is made through sociotechnical arrangements centering data in the regulation of racial difference.
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October 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
New at PB: Each day this week, we’re publishing a series on the cybernetic border, which contributions from Iván Chaar López, @philippseuferling.bsky.social, @kalindivora.bsky.social, and @gleemie.bsky.social.
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As part of our series on "The Cybernetic Border," @philippseuferling.bsky.social outlines 3 ideas that history debunks: 1) that border technologies are neutral; 2) that technology equals progress; and 3) that technology offers solutions to crises.
Tech, Stones, and Stories: How the Violence of Border Tech is a Historical Matter - Public Books
Border technologies live within loops of failure → crisis → fix → failure → crisis → fix, eternally to be tested. It will work, promise! Just wait for one more iteration
www.publicbooks.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
As part of our series on "The Cybernetic Border," @philippseuferling.bsky.social outlines 3 ideas that history debunks: 1) that border technologies are neutral; 2) that technology equals progress; and 3) that technology offers solutions to crises.
Honoured to contribute to a series of essays engaging with Iván Chaar López' brilliant "The Cybernetic Border" (Duke, 2024) - look out for more essays this week! #borders #tech #history #STS #noborders
www.publicbooks.org/tech-stones-...
www.publicbooks.org/tech-stones-...
Tech, Stones, and Stories: How the Violence of Border Tech is a Historical Matter - Public Books
Border technologies live within loops of failure → crisis → fix → failure → crisis → fix, eternally to be tested. It will work, promise! Just wait for one more iteration
www.publicbooks.org
October 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Honoured to contribute to a series of essays engaging with Iván Chaar López' brilliant "The Cybernetic Border" (Duke, 2024) - look out for more essays this week! #borders #tech #history #STS #noborders
www.publicbooks.org/tech-stones-...
www.publicbooks.org/tech-stones-...
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📣 2 x postdoc opportunities @ the Migrant Futures Institute, Goldsmiths, U of London. 1st award open to all subjects for applicants who are migrants / refugees; 2nd award needs to focus on migration. Please read eligibility criteria carefully, deadline 18 August: www.gold.ac.uk/research/cen...
Migrant Futures Postdoctoral Fellowships
Goldsmiths is pleased to announce the call for two Migrant Futures Postdoctoral Fellowships, part of a major grant from the Oak Foundation to establish the Migrant Futures Institute at Goldsmiths.
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July 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
📣 2 x postdoc opportunities @ the Migrant Futures Institute, Goldsmiths, U of London. 1st award open to all subjects for applicants who are migrants / refugees; 2nd award needs to focus on migration. Please read eligibility criteria carefully, deadline 18 August: www.gold.ac.uk/research/cen...
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For years, human rights advocates have warned of the criminalisation of migrants & activists at Europe’s borders.
With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet.
wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...
With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet.
wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...
Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with Europol
Under the banner of fighting migrant smuggling, Frontex has collected, and unlawfully siphoned to Europol, personal data for years—quietly drawing thousands of migrants, as well as EU citizens aiding ...
wearesolomon.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
For years, human rights advocates have warned of the criminalisation of migrants & activists at Europe’s borders.
With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet.
wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...
With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet.
wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...
Apply, apply! Join us in London in Sep for the workshop "How to know #technology and #migration otherwise: engaging with #feminist and #decolonial #epistemologies" organised through the COST action DATAMIG! Deadline 15/6, travel funding available!
@lsemedia.bsky.social
data-mig.eu/hybrid-works...
@lsemedia.bsky.social
data-mig.eu/hybrid-works...
Hybrid workshop LSE, WG1 “Inventory” - DATAMIG
Open Call for Contributions How to know technology and migration otherwise: engaging with feminist and decolonial epistemologies Hybrid workshop organised by the COST action “DATAMIG”, Working Group 1...
data-mig.eu
June 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Apply, apply! Join us in London in Sep for the workshop "How to know #technology and #migration otherwise: engaging with #feminist and #decolonial #epistemologies" organised through the COST action DATAMIG! Deadline 15/6, travel funding available!
@lsemedia.bsky.social
data-mig.eu/hybrid-works...
@lsemedia.bsky.social
data-mig.eu/hybrid-works...
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Last week, DSI and the Department of Media and Communications (@lsemedia.bsky.social) hosted a talk on data science's role in public interest – from access to info to democracy.
Speakers included Chris Wiggins, @abpowell.bsky.social and Erin Young.
Watch here▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLIV...
Speakers included Chris Wiggins, @abpowell.bsky.social and Erin Young.
Watch here▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLIV...
The power of data: ethics, politics, and public interest | LSE Event
YouTube video by LSE
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May 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Last week, DSI and the Department of Media and Communications (@lsemedia.bsky.social) hosted a talk on data science's role in public interest – from access to info to democracy.
Speakers included Chris Wiggins, @abpowell.bsky.social and Erin Young.
Watch here▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLIV...
Speakers included Chris Wiggins, @abpowell.bsky.social and Erin Young.
Watch here▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLIV...
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It's time to #StopBorderApartheid
New research 📢 the UK's AI Borders: Anduril's Autonomous Surveillance Towers (ASTs). We're pleased to be hosting new research by @samuelstorey.bsky.social into the use of Maritime Sentry Towers on the UK border: buff.ly/DcCfaOf
#AI #Anduril #HostileEnvironment
New research 📢 the UK's AI Borders: Anduril's Autonomous Surveillance Towers (ASTs). We're pleased to be hosting new research by @samuelstorey.bsky.social into the use of Maritime Sentry Towers on the UK border: buff.ly/DcCfaOf
#AI #Anduril #HostileEnvironment
The UK’s AI Borders: Anduril’s Autonomous Surveillance Towers - Migrants' Rights Network
Anduril Autonomous Surveillance Towers (ASTs) are scanning the Channel for people seeking safety on the South-East Coast of England.
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April 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
It's time to #StopBorderApartheid
New research 📢 the UK's AI Borders: Anduril's Autonomous Surveillance Towers (ASTs). We're pleased to be hosting new research by @samuelstorey.bsky.social into the use of Maritime Sentry Towers on the UK border: buff.ly/DcCfaOf
#AI #Anduril #HostileEnvironment
New research 📢 the UK's AI Borders: Anduril's Autonomous Surveillance Towers (ASTs). We're pleased to be hosting new research by @samuelstorey.bsky.social into the use of Maritime Sentry Towers on the UK border: buff.ly/DcCfaOf
#AI #Anduril #HostileEnvironment
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In this investigation for Balkan Insight, we review the human rights record of @frontex.bsky.social's director Hans Leijtens-two years after he vowed to end the agency's complicity in violent pushbacks. Amidst lawlessness at Europe's borders, is he fighting a losing battle?
tinyurl.com/bddvh7f5
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Poisoned Chalice: Is Frontex Director’s Clean-Up Operation Doomed to Failure?
Dutch former gendarmerie commander Hans Leijtens took the reins of Frontex with a vow to renew the EU border agency’s commitment to the rights of migrants. With Europe’s leaders taking a hard line on ...
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April 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
In this investigation for Balkan Insight, we review the human rights record of @frontex.bsky.social's director Hans Leijtens-two years after he vowed to end the agency's complicity in violent pushbacks. Amidst lawlessness at Europe's borders, is he fighting a losing battle?
tinyurl.com/bddvh7f5
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tinyurl.com/bddvh7f5
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Very excited to see my PhD dissertation published! I asked who gets to imagine Edinburgh’s future. I spoke with political leaders, tech entrepreneurs and higher education officials responsible for delivering the Edinburgh City Region Deal. Open access link ⬇️
Envisaging Dataist Modernity
Who gets to imagine datafied visions of the future city (region) and why is it important to look at universities as powerful urban stakeholders?
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April 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Very excited to see my PhD dissertation published! I asked who gets to imagine Edinburgh’s future. I spoke with political leaders, tech entrepreneurs and higher education officials responsible for delivering the Edinburgh City Region Deal. Open access link ⬇️
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From Nigel Farage's claims about two-tier policing, to Elon Musk’s weaponisation of the grooming gangs scandal, @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social examines how the right portrays itself as a victim/on the side of victims.
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social @jobale.bsky.social
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social @jobale.bsky.social
How the far right weaponizes victimhood
From Nigel Farage’s claims about two-tier policing, to Elon Musk’s weaponization of the grooming gangs scandal, the far right portrays itself as a victim or as on the side of victims as…
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January 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
From Nigel Farage's claims about two-tier policing, to Elon Musk’s weaponisation of the grooming gangs scandal, @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social examines how the right portrays itself as a victim/on the side of victims.
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social @jobale.bsky.social
@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social @jobale.bsky.social