This session of our interdisciplinary reading group “AI and Creativity” turns from the image’s hyperreal circulation to the concrete infrastructures that sustain it, taking up questions of ecology and labour that our reading of Baudrillard left open. In this fourth meeting, we will read:

• Ana Valdivia, “The Supply Chain Capitalism of AI: A Call to (Re)think Algorithmic Harms and Resistance through an Environmental Lens,” Information, Communication & Society, 28(12), pp. 2118–2134 (2025);
• Grégoire Chamayou, “Thermal Contradictions of Electronic Capital: The Second Jevons Paradox and the Prehistories of the Data Centre Cooling Crisis,” Radical Philosophy, 2.21, pp. 12, 16–18, 23–25 (2026);
• and an extract from International Energy Agency, Energy and AI (World Energy Outlook Special Report), Executive Summary, pp. 13–18 (2025).
  available from: https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai

This group welcomes anyone interested in the intersection of technology, creativity, culture, and ethics. We look forward to seeing you on Friday, October 2nd at 10:30 in Via Modena, room M 21, and on ZOOM (link will be sent around in due time).