Manifesto on algorithmic humanitarianism
The nature of machine learning operations mean they will actually deepen some humanitarian problematics and introduce new ones of their own. This banality of machine learning is also its power.
Arity and Abstraction
What does it mean to hijack the latent space of a computation? Not just any computation, but a cognitive act about which we can say – a decision was made, an inference took place here. First there is the admission of a latent space itself, an interiority – to assert an algorithm could develop, […]
The Spectre of Artificial Intelligence
Call for papers #6
The Incomputable and Instrumental Possibility
Essay by Antonia Majaca and Luciana Parisi travelling along Octavia Butler’s xenogenesis.
Machines that Morph Logic
Neural Networks and the Distorted Automation of Intelligence as Statistical Inference
The mostly complete chart of Neural Networks, explained
“The zoo of neural network types grows exponentially. One needs a map to navigate between many emerging architectures and approaches. Fortunately, Fjodor van Veen from Asimov institute compiled a wonderful cheatsheet on NN topologies. If you are not new to Machine Learning, you should have seen it before.” (Andrew Tchircoff on Medium) → See the complete […]
Vom Umkehren der Bedeutungsvektoren
Der fortgeschrittenen Abstraktion der Technologien und ihrer Gesellschaften im ausgehenden 20. Jahrhundert stellte Vilém Flusser die technischen Bilder entgegen: Nicht Simulation und Verlust an Realität, sondern der existenziale Entwurf neuer Möglichkeiten ist ihr ontologischer Vektor. Sie sind nicht Abbilder der Welt, sondern konstruieren diese als Virtualitäten. Der Aufsatz verortet die Genese des Technobilds in Informationsästhetik […]
The Message is Murder
→ Website More than fifty years ago, Marshall McLuhan proclaimed that “the medium is the message,” profoundly influencing future generations of media theorists. A long-overdue wakeup call for the field of media studies, The Message is Murder analyzes the formations of violence still imbued in the everyday functions of the media. Jonathan Beller introduces the […]
Abnormal Encephalization in the Age of Machine Learning
Even if artificial intelligence never awakes one day as a sentient being, there are already millions of machine learning algorithms that day-to-day scavenge gigantic data centers of social data to detect correlations, extract patterns, distil norms, predict tendencies, and make metadata mug shots of the population as a whole. Machine intelligence is not biomorphic—it will never […]
Beautiful Data
→ Website Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century. Contending that our forms of attention, observation, and truth are contingent and contested, Orit Halpern historicizes the ways that we are trained, and train […]
Deadly Algorithms
An essay by Susan Schuppli for Radical Philosophy.
Ikonografie des Gehirns
→ Website Das (menschliche) Gehirn ist nicht nur eines der in jüngster Zeit am intensivsten erforschten wissenschaftlichen Felder, es ist als Organ und Sitz von Denken, Erkenntnis und Bewusstsein zugleich ein unfassbarer Gegenstand geblieben; die verschiedenen Versuche, sich des Gehirns, seiner Funktionen und Aktivitäten, seiner körperlichen und umweltlichen Bindungen auf bildlichem Wege Klarheit zu verschaffen, […]
The Mind Net
A 1961 (!) sci-fi novel by Herbert Franke, Honorary PhD HfG.