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.
Among Cultists: The State of Bitcoin
An essay by Max Grünberg on the state of Bitcoin politics.
Function Creep
An essay by Arif Kornweitz for the New AI Lexicon on the function creep of algorithmic systems.
Internet Music: On the electronic online underground and the post-internet generation
Magister thesis by Christopher von Frankenberg.
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.
The Nooscope Manifested: AI as Instrument of Knowledge Extractivism
A visual manifesto on AI by Matteo Pasquinelli and Vladan Joler
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Galton’s Utopia – Data Accumulation in Biometric Capitalism
Ariana Dongus’ essay for Spheres journal #5
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.
Three Thousand Years of Algorithmic Rituals: The Emergence of AI from the Computation of Space
A new text by Prof. Matteo Pasquinelli for e-flux journal #101
