I wrote before about the anti-computer. Let me continue some of those themes, using instead an adjacent label, the uncomputer.
In an initial sense, the uncomputer comes out of whatever is subordinated or excluded as a result of the standard model of the digital. The excluded term might be the ...
In researching the relation between weaving and computation, I ran across this astounding passage by Ellen Harlizius-Klück:
What the Digital Humanities features, is rather the digital processing and representation of data. The concept of the digital itself is just as little explored as manual aspects of programming, which always include ...
In antiquity, the word “Dia-graphein” referred to the inscription of a line, namely in geometric tables, lists, musical notations, etc. Not only were plans and figures designed with the help of lines, but there were also numerous markings and even crossings, which then called into question the stability of the ...
In his current essay “Europa Fata Morgana” Georg Seeßlen speaks of post-democracy as a permanent state of emergency, in which the multiple crises (war against terror, financial crisis, Greek crisis, refugee crisis, etc.) fulfilled the function of maintaining it. Seeßlen writes: “The state of emergency can only be maintained if ...
In her book Das Zeitalter des Überwachungskapitalismus Shosana Zuboff describes Facebook & Co as the masters of radical indifference. A new accumulation logic emerges in which the surveillance capital extracts human behavior and its seemingly useless surpluses, that is, absorbs data combined with other data to feed intelligent machines and ...
Money robots are actually nothing more than complex algorithms that analyze and process data and are also able to learn from feedback and results. Former MEP Martin Ehrenhauser has published an informative book on this subject. The book “Die Geldroboter”, published by ProMedia-Verlag, deals with the function and effectiveness of ...
capital, derivatives, high-frequency-trading, money, money robots
Androids, if they were to come into existence, would be the outcome of scientific and engineering ingenuity and thus be products of past living labour. Although the androids might be Turing-compatible, Voight-Kammpf cheating and Asimov-law abiding, they would be dead labour. Indeed as outcomes of a capitalist production process they ...
Artificial Intelligence, capital, machine, machinic surplus value, marxism
With the reference to the phylogeny of machines, which ranges from complex tools to machines driven by motors to automatons, Marx always combines a genealogy of technology shaped by capital and thus clearly sets himself apart from a transhistorical theory of the evolution of technology. Marx writes: “Work is organized ...
engine, factory, machine, marx, marxism, organic composition of capital, prime mover, relative surplus value
If one follows the theory about technical objects as developed by the French theorist Gilbert Simondon (Simondon 2012), and then the statements of Frédéric Neyrat in the anthology Die technologische Bedingung (The Technological Condition, Hörl 2011), it is necessary for today’s hyper-technical societies to fundamentally rethink the already disturbed identity ...
capital, g.anders, machines, marxism, technology, trans classical, transinidviduation
Wenn es um die langfristigen Tendenzen der AI geht, werden die Autoren in ihren Bewertungen vorsichtig, wobei durchaus ein Kapitalismus ohne Menschen vorstellbar ist, andererseits ist es auch denkbar, dass intelligente maschinelle Netze ihren Input und Output autonom darstellen und zudem fähig sind, das Kalkulationsproblem zu lösen und demokratische Planungsprozesse ...
Um die Effekte der AI automatisierten sozialen Fabrik zu erklären, greifen die Autoren auf Bernard Stiegler zurück, der den Begriff »Grammatization« eingeführt hat, unter dem er einen Prozess versteht, durch den unsere Existenz diskret gemacht wird. Die Transformation des Sprechens in das Alphabet ist ein frühes Beispiel dieses Prozesses, jedoch ...
AI, Maschinelles Lernen, Surplusbevölkerung, Technologie, variables Kapital
Paper presented at “Marx’s Critique of Political Economy and the Global Crisis Today. On the 150th Anniversary of the Publication of Capital”, Hofstra University, April 6-7, 2017.
“Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.”
– Frederic ...
AI, machines, marx, marxism, surplus value, technology, value
Smart Cities, das ubiquitäre Computing und instrumented devices, Methoden, die eine urbane Umwelt schaffen, benötigen Tools der AI. Zu diesen gehören Sensoren und Kameras, die spezifische Prozessoren für die Maschine-Maschine Kommunikation besitzen, wenn es um die Optimierung eines automatisierten Verkehrs, die Verteilung von Energie und andere städtische Flows geht, sodass ...
AI Jobs, fixes Kapital, maschineller mehrwert, Maschinelles Lernen, Roboter, Technologie
Das Autorenteam Dyer-Whiteford, Kjösen, Steinhoff hat mit Inhuman Power ein verdienstvolles Buch zur AI (Artificial Intelligence; AI) aus marxistischer Sicht vorgelegt. AI definieren die Autoren als die Fähigkeit in einem bestimmten Zeitraum angemessene Generalisierungen auf Grundlage von limitierten Daten zu machen. Je weiter der Spielraum für Applikationen ist und je ...
AI, ASI, fixeds kapital, lebendige Arbeit, marx, marxism, Technologie, technology
…measured against the conditions of the present, communism itself embodies the most alien of all possible futures.
—Edmund Berger
Edmund Berger author of Uncertain Futures: An Assessment of the Conditions of the Present (see my review) has for years done his homework in uncovering the historical traces of the Marxist ...
Sachverhalte wie Satellitenüberwachung, enorme Rechnerkapazitäten auf Silizium Chips, Sensoren, Netzwerke und Predictive-Analytics sind die Bestandteile von digitalen Systemen (des Überwachungskapitals), die das Leben und Verhalten der Bevölkerungen gegenwärtig umfassend tracken, analysieren und kapitalisieren. Dabei sieht sich beispielsweise Google unter dem Druck der Finanzmärkte gezwungen, die Effektivität seines Data-Trackings und seiner ...
algorithmic governance, digital, Facebook, Google, internet, Überwachungskapital
Ganz allgemein ist der Prävention ein spezifisches Zeitschema immanent. Wenn die gegenwärtige Zukunft, die sich auf das bezieht, was man von der Zukunft erwartet, und die künftige Gegenwart, die jene Zukunft bezeichnet, die tatsächlich eintreten wird, nicht deckungsgleich sind, dann wird, wenn man es zunächst ökonomisch betrachtet, durch den Einsatz ...
Politik, Polizei, Prävention, Staatsapparat, Staatsfaschisierung, Terrorismus
Videos, interactive screens, multimedia, the Internet, Virtual Reality: interactivity threatens us on all sides. What was once separated is everywhere merged. Distance is everywhere abolished: between the sexes, between opposite poles, between the stage and the auditorium, between the protagonists of the action, between the subject and the object, between ...
Future (um) 2 * / The Perfect Future: The key to artificial paradise, according to the psychologist Burrhus Frederic Skinner , is the insight that every human being is nothing but a bundle of behavioral patterns – an automaton with predictable and manipulable reactions to the environment. Thus, the only alternative ...
zum 20.02.2019
Certonistisches Manifest/Informistisches Manifest*
Unsicherheit ist die neue Sicherheit.
Die Strategien jüngerer Aufführungen auf den Bühnen des Theaters und der Häuser der Kulturen, wie der Politiken der Welt, haben nicht nur durch den von der Bühne entschwundenen Vladislav Surkov Wechselwirkungen hinterlassen. Das Theater ist längst “Backstage“ angekommen – mise ...
information, Manifest, Null, Software, Unsicherheit, Wunschmaschine
Nikita Khrushchev was skeptical whether computers can help boost history towards communism. Nevertheless, he was willing to give it a try and ordered a super-computer for economical support of soviet socialism. The mostly talented and best trained soviet engineers set up the computer and asked him to test the machine ...
acceleration, communism, cybernetics, non-cybernetics, technology, Tiqqun
taken from Blackout
The following discussion with Félix Guattari took place in his apartment in Paris. With the help of a number of friends, I had prepared a set of questions, and had contacted him to see if he might be available to answer some of them.\1 He responded immediately, ...
Anti-Ödipus, body-without-organs, deleuze/guattari, desiring machines, guattari, machines, marxism, mille plateaux, Molecular Revolution, non-technology, pragmatic
