Digitality and Intent
I gave a two-person talk with Nan Z. Da last fall at U. Michigan on the theme of “Digitality and Intent.” Here is my text for the talk, slightly revised and expanded. In prepping for this event, Nan and I decided on […]
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Normale Wissenschaft
Eine Vorhersage… wir treten in eine neue Phase der normalen Wissenschaft ein. Ich erwarte, dass diese ein Jahrzehnt oder länger andauern wird. Um die “normale Wissenschaft” zu verstehen, kehren wir zu Thomas Kuhns einflussreichem Buch The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Normal Science
A prediction… we’re entering a new phase of normal science. I expect this to last a decade or more. To understand “normal science” we return to Thomas Kuhn’s influential 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In that text–devoted to
DIE DUNKLEN SEITEN DER ALGORITHMISCHEN STADT
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
Marxism and Artificial Intelligence
The author team Dyer-Whiteford, Kjösen, Steinhoff has presented with Inhuman Power a meritorious book on AI (Artificial Intelligence; AI) from a Marxist perspective. The authors define AI as the ability to make reasonable generalizations based on limited data in a
Marxism and Artificial Intelligence
Agre – Zuboff
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
Lost in the Maze: Futurity and the Inhuman Economy
We’ve all become mere data points in the consumption cycle, our dividual lives of labor running the course of commodity production and exchange as informational agents and products in a knowledge economy. Sipping at the brothel of capital, neither prostitute
Lost in the Maze: Futurity and the Inhuman Economy
Where Does Meaning Come From?
Nobody knows, not really. I’ve said in the past that no one has yet patented a Meaning Machine. And when it comes to the digital and the analog I’m mostly in the dark about the question of meaning. My intuition
Is the Analog in the Real?
I’ve been talking recently with Beatrice Fazi about a structuralist theory of the digital. In my experience, the majority of digital theory today is essentially empirical in that it tries to understand words like “digital” and “analog” by looking at
Keywords for Alexander Galloway’s “Laruelle. Against The Digital”
14 theses of Alexander Galloway according to Laruelle: 1) The medial principle: the real is communicable, and the communicable is real.2) For the standard model of philosophy, everything that is given is split.3) In non-standard philosophy, the One is a
Keywords for Alexander Galloway’s “Laruelle. Against The Digital”
From Rhythm to Glitch: Digital Deformation in Deleuze
Corry Shores and Meli̇ke Başak Yalçın 0 Introduction Shortly before his death, Gilles Deleuze discovered a new kind of music: glitch, in particular, Oval’s Systemisch. [Achim] Szepanski contacted Deleuze himself, sending material by Oval and other Mille Plateaux artists, and
From Rhythm to Glitch: Digital Deformation in Deleuze
Derrida’s Macintosh
I’ve been finishing an essay for a friend about Friedrich Kittler and the “media a priori” of philosophy. It’s an idea I have had on the back burner for several years. Ever since Wolfgang Ernst told me the story of Heidegger’s radio–a burgundy