PDF Claudio Celis Bueno and raúl rodríguez freire, editores invitados Este dossier de Culture Machine se propone examinar un doble movimiento en el pensamiento antropológico contemporáneo, interrogando la ficción antropológica…
Antropoficciones: ética, técnica y política no-humana para otros mundos posibles Editores invitados: Claudio Celis Bueno, Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Chile raúl rodríguez freire, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile…
Something that we find very interesting is the distinction between a representational level of images and a performative level. And we believe that both levels are very important to consider when thinking about the politics of images today. The problem is that theory has been too concerned with representation and hasn’t paid enough attention to performativity. But on the other hand, performativity can be considered an application of power structures. What are your thoughts about this distinction and its importance to reflect on the politics of images today?
While many organisms would face severe difficulties unlearning their register of multiple ‘distinct’ bodies, machine learning algorithms can train on diversified inputs without preconceived notions of this separation. Within the reciprocity of kinaesthetic awareness and the inherent feedback of kinaesthetic perception lies a nuanced methodological potential and an implicit force which has been largely neglected in the predominantly positivist development of affective computing. This focus on a kinaesthetic sense of awareness may enact repercussions which call for a revised notion of relationality as well as for digital technologies beyond the binary.
questions remain concerning what role critical scholarship can play in guiding the development of technology towards more just futures. In this essay, I examine how AI researchers interpret the raw data at the center of their discipline, and how these interpretations inform the development of technology.
Through a consideration of the Singularity as the guiding metaphysical desire behind the technocratic push to general AI, this essay argues that the development of artificial intelligence operates as a mechanism of corporate sovereignty—the construction and assertion of the legal form of the business corporation as the locus of social authority.
This article will attempt to theorize some of the subtle aspects of the technological sublime and in so doing speculate as to some of its future consequences. Using the 2016 five-match Go tournament which pitted AlphaGo software (an AI developed by Google/Deepmind) against Lee Sedol, an 18-time world champion Go master, my central line of argument is the idea that moves made by AlphaGo that initially appeared to be counterintuitive or even erroneous from a human perspective, might in fact reveal 'in(super)human' intelligence.
The discursive and political narration of intelligent borders is central for the socio-technical renderings of data-driven border and migration policing. In this article, I analyze the implementation of data-driven and semi-automated technologies to authenticate and recognize asylum seekers' identities and claims in the context of asylum administration and migration control in Germany, with a particular focus on the practice of forensic smartphone data extraction.
The story of Facebook’s ‘ethnic affinity’ categories exemplifies emerging techniques of racialisation today. It is our contention that such techniques operationalise a function that is inherent to algorithmic culture, namely: discrimination. The quiet demise of the categories is supposed to have brought one particularly ignominious chapter in Facebook’s recent history to a close. However, we contend that these categories typify the techniques that platforms like Facebook use to assemble us into groups and, reciprocally, to apprehend us as individuals.
In this paper, I lean into debates and concepts surrounding media as extractive technology as a way into other debates altogether: the history, technologies, and consequences of writing. Combining scholarly work on the topics of critical media studies, critical algorithm studies, platform studies, and linguistic capitalism, I contextualize the current moment in this history, elaborating how platforms and AI shift ‘the semantic coordinates’ (Striphas 2015: 398) of what it means to write.