Matteo PASQUINELLI

Position
Associate Professor
E-mail
matteo.pasquinelli@unive.it
Academic discipline
Logic and Philosophy of Science [PHIL-02/A]
Website
https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/matteo.pasquinelli(personal record)
Office
Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.fbc
Where: Malcanton Marcorà

Office hours

On Tuesdays from 3.30pm until 6pm in person: please book an appointment via email.

Teaching activity current year

DIGITAL AND PUBLIC HUMANITIES [FMR11]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

FILOSOFIA [FTR2]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

SCIENZE FILOSOFICHE [FMR61]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

Teaching activity previous years

SCIENZE FILOSOFICHE [FMR61]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

FILOSOFIA [FTR2]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

SCIENZE FILOSOFICHE [FM61]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

FILOSOFIA [FT2]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

MANAGEMENT [R257]
Corso di Dottorato (D.M.45)

Activities and research skills

Academic discipline
Logica e filosofia della scienza [PHIL-02/A]
Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
Internazionale: Europa, Estremo Oriente, America Settentrionale
Known languages
Inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Italiano (scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
Spagnolo (scritto: base parlato: base)
Tedesco (scritto: base parlato: base)
(scritto: base parlato: base)
Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
Editorial board member, Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society.
Editorial board member, Verum factum: Studies and Sources on Political Epistemology.
Participation as referees of national and international research projects
Project reviewer, German Federal Ministry for Education and Research.
Main departmental research areas and fields
Area: Filosofia e Scienze Sociali Linea: Filosofia della scienza
History and Epistemology of Artificial Intelligence
Keywords:
Humanities, Social sciences, Technological sciences
ATECO code:
[72.20] - ricerca e sviluppo sperimentale nel campo delle scienze sociali e umanistiche
ERC project AIMODELS
SSD:
PHIL-02/A
Other members of the research group:
Giorgio CIANI
Lorenzo DE LELLIS
Alexandra DEEM
Giovanni FAVA
Tommaso GUARIENTO

Publication highlights

Pasquinelli, Matteo Machine, Organism, and Language: A Comparative Epistemology of AI Models in AI & SOCIETY, vol. online (ISSN 1435-5655)
DOI 2026, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5117168


Pasquinelli, Matteo Theories of Automation from the Industrial Factory to AI Platforms: An Overview of Political Economy and History of Science and Technology in TECNOSCIENZA, vol. 15, pp. 99-112 (ISSN 2038-3460)
DOI 2024, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5064584


Pasquinelli, Matteo The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence , London, Verso Books (ISBN 9781788730068)
2023, Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5043674


Pasquinelli, Matteo Labour, Energy, and Information as Historical Configurations: Notes for a Political Metrology of the Anthropocene in JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY OF IDEAS, vol. 11, pp. 1-31 (ISSN 2280-8574)
DOI 2023, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5043761


Pasquinelli, Matteo The Automaton of the Anthropocene: On Carbosilicon Machines and Cyberfossil Capital in THE SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY, vol. 2, pp. 311-326 (ISSN 0038-2876)
DOI 2017, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5043630


List of publications

Curriculum vitae

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). His research focuses the intersection of philosophy of mind and language, political economy, and forms of automation such as artificial intelligence.

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), winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2024 for the best book in the tradition of critical theory.

Among others, he published for AI & Society, Electra, e-flux, Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Les Mondes du Travail, Micromega,Multitudes, Parrhesia, Qui Parle, Radical Philosophy, Sociologia del lavoro, South Atlantic Quarterly, Tecnoscienza, and Theory Culture & Society.

Personal website: matteopasquinelli.com