taken from bonustracks KI ist eine Technologie zur Steuerung von sozialem Mord KI, wie wir sie kennen, ist nicht nur eine Reihe von algorithmischen Methoden wie Deep Learning, sondern ein vielschichtiges Gefüge von Technologien, Institutionen und Ideologien, die behaupten, Lösungen […]
DEEP LEARNING UND DIE MENSCHLICHE VERFÜGBARKEIT
taken from bonustracks Was ist die Zukunft unserer Städte? Diese Frage wurde während des Höhepunkts der Covid-19-Pandemie häufig gestellt und führte zu einer Reihe von institutionellen Replikationen, von denen jedoch bis heute nur wenige Spuren geblieben zu sein scheinen. Die
DIE DUNKLEN SEITEN DER ALGORITHMISCHEN STADT
“Because electronic literature is predicated on evolving technologies, the speed at which its many manifestations develop is always accelerating. From hypertext fiction, email novels, network fiction, generative art, and short fiction delivered serially to mobile devices to interactive fiction, virtual
Speed Bomb: Accelerating Nowhere in Nothingness; or the Last Elegy for a Dying Species
As Danowski and Viveiros de Castro show in their argument, Deleuze’s concept of minor technologies, i.e., the different exercise of techniques (or “techopoetics”), paves a possible way toward constructing planetary cybernetics. read here Foto: Sylvia John
Prolegomena to Planetary Cybernetics
When Shoshana Zuboff published The Age of Surveillance Capitalism four years ago, I remember feeling skeptical and slightly guarded. You’re telling me the Harvard Business School hates Facebook now too? Okay, sure, welcome comrade…better late than never. Zuboff’s book is
We saw it in the early Nineties, where I first started really picking up on this type of thing – that there was an overt ideological thesis, that was at that time called the “Californian Ideology”. —Nick Land “Every weirdo
The Glitch Society: Bunker Worlds for Apocalypse
Semiconductor technology and semiconductor firms do not exist in a vacuum – they are enmeshed in complex ways with social forces outside the control of any dominant group. The interests of the semiconductor business cannot wholly escape the influence of
Baudrillard bindet die Instabilität des Systems an die Implosion, womit er andeutet, dass das System in sich kollabiert (und nicht durch einen nuklearen Krieg etwa explodiert). Es befindet sich in einer Involution, bricht also an einem Punkt schlagartig in sich
The behavioral and reception patterns of the masses today consist mostly of repetitive habits, whereby they, as users on the Internet, by no means remain passive, but rather constantly involve themselves in the pseudo-turbulent events via the social networks in
Note: Earlier versions of this paper were presented as two keynote addresses in 2018. First, at the 2nd International and Multidisciplinary Conference on Baudrillard Studies – ‘Applied Baudrillard’ – held in Oxford, England (September 5th to 7th). My opening keynote
Baudrillard’s Photographic Theory
If I were asked to characterize the present state of affairs, I would describe it as ‘after the orgy’ . The orgy in question was the moment when modernity exploded upon us, the moment of liberation in every sphere. Political
… If I had to name the present state of things, I would say that every explosive moment in the modern world is a moment of liberation in some area. The liberation of the political and the sexual, the liberation