Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
While I understand the desire not to feed conspiracy theories or pseudoscience, the scientific’s community response to menstruating people’s reports of changes in their periods …
“Priority passengers” and other necropolitical human taxonomies
Earlier this week I wrote about two incidents of violence on planes . While these incidents differed drastically in the reasons behind them, both were …
Cognitive Machines and Cognitive Capitalism: teaching the algorithm to see
This is an edited version of my notes for the lecture of my ongoing research on Beauty and the Machine (on machine learning and aesthetics) …
Airborne violence: Passengers stop deportation of a Nigerian man from The Netherlands
Yesterday a man was violently removed from a United Airlines flight in the US. The video is deeply unsettling to watch. The man is dehumanized …
Beauty and the machine: teaching algorithms to detect the simulacrum
A couple of days ago I wrote a short thread on twitter about my interest in bootlegs. I am interested mostly in fashion/ clothing related …
Capital and Détournement: who owns the means of aggregating information?
Reading this review of Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? by McKenzie Wark and a few observations/ thoughts. This from the review: The vector …
Nationalism as simulacrum
For context some of my previous writing on right wing appeal to sentimentality: The nostalgic wound and the appeal of “the good old days” To …
Save the Date: Public Lectures and Discussions Program 2018/ 2019 at Sandberg Institute
As part of my research on The Artifice of Intelligence, I will be holding a public program at the Sandberg Institute throughout the rest of …
Non consensual bots and personal space
There is this bot on Twitter that creates a blogpost out of twitter threads. The bot functions more or less like this: someone writes a …
Machine learned cruelty and border control
The news about immigration control in the US are a daily display of cruelty. Children separated from their families, held in cages, detained in conditions …