Tsvetelina Hristova
Biographic Data
| ID | 296714 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tsvetelina Hristova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tsvetelina |
| FAMILY NAME | Hristova |
| SIGNATURE | HRISTOVA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9059-795X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Industries of Infrastructural Futures, Automated Cultures, and Algorithmic Dynamics
We approach the conference topic of industry through four studies that explore a new media landscape where value and power are increasingly produced through the operalisation of machinic and affective relations and subjectivities. We explore technologies of automation, artificial intelligence and algorithmic regimes and the new possibilities for enacting and imagining political futures that they afford. The papers focus on four case studies: WeCh…
The problem of alignment
Large language models (LLMs) produce sequences learned as statistical patterns from large corpora. Their emergent status as representatives of the advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have led to an increased attention to the possibilities of regulating the automated production of linguistic utterances and interactions with human users in a process that computer scientists refer to as ‘alignment’—a series of technological and political mechan…
Academic workers in crisis
Introducing this special issue, this article summarises the contributions and reflects on the conditions in which the labour processes of their authors reflect the increasingly stressful working conditions of academic workers in the post-pandemic context
The abstraction of labour from the factory to the platform
In this article, I argue that the entanglements between visuality and automation need to be situated and analysed as part of the abstraction of labour and the labour process in capitalism. The striving to standardise, control and optimise the labour process is the original drive behind the operationalisations of visuality in service of capitalist industrial technology. This includes contemporary AI systems, which, despite their increasing complex…
The politics of mediation
Digital data infrastructures act as mediating technologies that shape and manipulate flows and visibilities. Focusing on the case of the Indian digital ID Aadhaar, this article proposes a theory of mediation as a conceptual framework for understanding the role of digital technology in projects for datafication of state governance and national economy. In 2016, the Indian biometric ID Aadhaar was instrumentalised in a nation-wide move towards digi…
Migration and the Contested Politics of Justice
The chapter engages with posted work in the European Union as a form of post-socialist migration, which exemplifies an increased reliance on displaced models of social reproduction as a way to revitalize one's life. We analyze the concept of transitional justice and argue that its ideological justification has produced an elastic labour power that has no other means to sustain itself than by moving. In this constellation, the figure of the Easter…
Clouded data
Personal data is highly vulnerable to security exploits, spurring moves to lock it down through encryption, to cryptographically ‘cloud’ it. But personal data is also highly valuable to corporations and states, triggering moves to unlock its insights by relocating it in the cloud. We characterise this twinned condition as ‘clouded data’. Clouded data constructs a political and technological notion of privacy that operates through the intersection…
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Clouded data
Personal data is highly vulnerable to security exploits, spurring moves to lock it down through encryption, to cryptographically ‘cloud’ it. But personal data is also highly valuable to corporations and states, triggering moves to unlock its insights by relocating it in the cloud. We characterise this twinned condition as ‘clouded data’. Clouded data constructs a political and technological notion of privacy that operates through the intersection…
Migration and the Contested Politics of Justice
The chapter engages with posted work in the European Union as a form of post-socialist migration, which exemplifies an increased reliance on displaced models of social reproduction as a way to revitalize one's life. We analyze the concept of transitional justice and argue that its ideological justification has produced an elastic labour power that has no other means to sustain itself than by moving. In this constellation, the figure of the Easter…
The politics of mediation
Digital data infrastructures act as mediating technologies that shape and manipulate flows and visibilities. Focusing on the case of the Indian digital ID Aadhaar, this article proposes a theory of mediation as a conceptual framework for understanding the role of digital technology in projects for datafication of state governance and national economy. In 2016, the Indian biometric ID Aadhaar was instrumentalised in a nation-wide move towards digi…
Academic workers in crisis
Introducing this special issue, this article summarises the contributions and reflects on the conditions in which the labour processes of their authors reflect the increasingly stressful working conditions of academic workers in the post-pandemic context
The abstraction of labour from the factory to the platform
In this article, I argue that the entanglements between visuality and automation need to be situated and analysed as part of the abstraction of labour and the labour process in capitalism. The striving to standardise, control and optimise the labour process is the original drive behind the operationalisations of visuality in service of capitalist industrial technology. This includes contemporary AI systems, which, despite their increasing complex…
Industries of Infrastructural Futures, Automated Cultures, and Algorithmic Dynamics
We approach the conference topic of industry through four studies that explore a new media landscape where value and power are increasingly produced through the operalisation of machinic and affective relations and subjectivities. We explore technologies of automation, artificial intelligence and algorithmic regimes and the new possibilities for enacting and imagining political futures that they afford. The papers focus on four case studies: WeCh…
The problem of alignment
Large language models (LLMs) produce sequences learned as statistical patterns from large corpora. Their emergent status as representatives of the advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have led to an increased attention to the possibilities of regulating the automated production of linguistic utterances and interactions with human users in a process that computer scientists refer to as ‘alignment’—a series of technological and political mechan…
Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Data science (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Abstraction (1 works)