Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals

Organizational Monsters and the Shaping of Systemic Irresponsibility

Abstract Organizational monsters populate capitalist societies and shape the conditions of systemic irresponsibility. Building on organizational sociology and critical approaches, I argue that organizational monsters are powerful yet ambiguously organized and unevenly recognized...

Prospecting MeerKAT Continuum Data for Enigmatic Radio Sources with Unsupervised Vector-Quantised Variational Autoencoders

Abstract We present a novel application of Vector quantised variational autoencoders (VQ-VAEs) as an unsupervised tool to probe deep 1.28 GHz radio continuum images taken from the MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey (MGCLS) and compare their performance to other machine learning...