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Giving Voice to Values in your DLCI: An event for staff
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 – 12:00pmW11 Main Dining RoomThis event is intended for staff. If you are a student who is interested in this topic, please contact Nicholas at ncollura@mit.edu. Do you feel the freedom to offer – or, if you are in leadership, to receive – genuine values-based feedback about how well your DLCI is…
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Hospicing and Outgrowing Modernity: Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti
Tuesday, March 17, 2026 – 12:00pmThe Nexus at Hayden Library, 14S-130Join us for a lecture and discussion with internationally renowned scholar, educator, and author Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, a leading voice on decolonial futures, global justice, and the profound transformations required in times of social and ecological breakdown Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti is the former Dean of the Faculty of…
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Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo: The Datacenter Does Not Exist
Monday, March 9, 2026 – 6:00pmMIT E15-070This lecture examines AI infrastructure through exocapitalism, a framework for understanding how capital can move independently of physical constraints like energy, labor, and raw materials. We’ll explore the strange economics of the AI boom (trillion-dollar announcements, debts backed by computer chips, and endless layers of intermediary management services)…
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Gender, Empire, and AI: Symposium and Design Workshop
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 – 9:00amMIT Schwarzman College of Computing 8th floor (Building 45)MIT Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) presents “Gender, Empire and Al,” a symposium and design workshop to both reflect on critical questions and design generative paths forward to addressing them. The day will start with a keynote by award-winning journalist and MIT alumna, Karen Hao, on her book…
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“Exocapitalism” Book Club
Monday, February 9, 2026 – 5:30pmWiesner Room (List Center, Building E15)Please join us for a four-week book club on Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo’s intriguing exploration of Exocapitalism: Economies with Absolutely No Limits, culminating in an on-campus event with the authors on the fifth week. Exocapitalism, in the words of Tiziana Terranova,“is not an argument for a new phase…

