Postcapitalist Trajectories: An Introduction to Heterodox Modes of Production
Course Winter Semester 2021/2022.
From the Deep State to Deep Learning: The Political Archaeology of Data from the 20th Century until Today
Course Winter Semester 2021/2022.
Function Creep
An essay by Arif Kornweitz for the New AI Lexicon on the function creep of algorithmic systems.
Machine Hubris: AI Ethics and Digital Humanitarianism
Phd project by Arif Kornweitz.
Algorithmic Realism: Socialist Calculation in the Age of Ubiquitous Computation
PhD project by Max Grünberg
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.
The High-Tech Labor Camp as Laboratory
PhD project by Ariana Dongus
Who’s using your face? The ugly truth about facial recognition
Adam Harvey, partner and collaborator of KIM, speaks to the Financial Times on how his project MegaPixels tackles the dubious ways training data sets for facial recognition are created.
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.
Computational Colony Capital
This machine is a biometric device that scans eyes. This machine is also a mask that hides the backside of its violent logistics and algorithms designed around its screens. In both prints, the eyes are replaced by two images: The pattern of a fingerprint, the pattern of a scanned Iris, both behind the scanner, […]