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Call for articles. Political Ecology Journal No. 72: "Artificial Intelligence"

may 20 - 8:00 am - 8:00 PM CMT

Until May 30

The magazine Political Ecology. Notebooks for International Debate Call for original articles for its 72nd issue. This dossier aims to explore, from a political ecology perspective, the multiple socio-environmental, biophysical, ethical, and geopolitical impacts of the expansion of artificial intelligence (AI). We seek contributions that critically analyze global supply chains, water and energy consumption by data centers, social and military control, cognitive extractivism, and the responses and digital decolonization movements emerging from the Global South and North.

To participate in the call for applications, you must initially send a Summary of a maximum of 250 words before May 30th to the magazine's email address. If the proposal is selected, the The complete article must be submitted before July 10thThis manuscript must align with the critical axes surrounding the impact of Artificial Intelligence and be written in a popular and accessible style for a broad audience (not necessarily specialists, but interested in political ecology and the environment).

Suggested thematic areas

  • Approaches to AI from the perspective of environmental and climate justice.
  • Use of AI by the military, espionage and social control industries.
  • New conceptual debates: technofascism, technoligarchs and technofeudalism.
  • Cognitive risks, isolation, and effects on the psyche.
  • Geographies of data infrastructures and their socio-environmental conflicts (water, territory, GHG emissions).
  • AI as extractivism: links between ecological colonialism and data colonialism.
  • Alternatives: destruction of AI (new ludisms) versus socialization/reappropriation from below.

Recipients

  • Social movements, activists, environmentalists, journalists, experts and researchers.

Organized by

  • Magazine Political Ecology. Notebooks for International Debate.
  • ENT Foundation.

The CLACSO Working Group on Political Ecologies from the South/Abya Yala is participating

More information: ecologiapolitica.info/enviar-articulos/

Contact: [email protected]

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