How to Make a Class: Hayek’s Neoliberalism and the Origins of Connectionism

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How to Make a Class: Hayek’s Neoliberalism and the Origins of Connectionism

A new essay on the history of AI by Matteo Pasquinelli for the Berkeley University journal Qui Parle.

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Among Cultists: The State of Bitcoin

An essay by Max Grünberg on the state of Bitcoin politics.

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Internet Music: On the electronic online underground and the post-internet generation

Magister thesis by Christopher von Frankenberg.

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Towards abolishing carceral technologies: Why face recognition needs to be banned

KIM features an essay by digital artist and scholar Hiba Ali. The essay is part of a series hosted on our blog to stimulate discussions on the effects of AI on society.

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Die lebendigen Pixel. Ein feministisch-materialistischer Beitrag zur Entwicklung künstlichen Sehens

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The Nooscope Manifested: AI as Instrument of Knowledge Extractivism

A visual manifesto on AI by Matteo Pasquinelli and Vladan Joler

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How Technocrats Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Quarantine

A response by Godofredo Pereira to Benjamin Bratton’s “18 Lessons from the Quarantine Urbanism.”

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The Arborescent Mind: The Intelligence of an Inverted Tree

Hayward Gallery in London opens the exhibition Among the Trees with a text by Matteo Pasquinelli.

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Nur nicht das Gesicht verlieren

fluter, the magazine of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung publishes an article by our research associate Ariana Dongus on the deployment of face recognition in everyday life.

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On the origins of Marx’s general intellect

Out now for Radical Philosophy journal: Matteo Pasquinelli’s essay investigates the relation between Marx and the pioneer of computation Charles Babbage.

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Galton’s Utopia – Data Accumulation in Biometric Capitalism

Ariana Dongus’ essay for Spheres journal #5

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How a Machine Learns and Fails: A Grammar of Error for Artificial Intelligence

“Given the degree of myth-making and social bias around its mathematical constructs, Artificial Intelligence has inaugurated the age of statistical science fiction” — Matteo Pasquinelli for Spheres journal #5.

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