The Human Rating System – A Roundtable
This is a slightly edited version of the introduction I presented for the roundtable on “The Human Rating System” that took place at the Sandberg …
Algorithms as cartomancy – Schemas of Uncertainty
Hosted by the Sandberg Instituut, Schemas of Uncertainty was a cross-departmental research group on the notion of prediction. It takes prediction from a historical phenomenon …
A few notes on reading Malabou’s Morphing Intelligence: From IQ Measurement to Artificial Brains
Some disjointed and not yet fully formed notes from the reading we have been doing of Catherine Malabou’s Morphing Intelligence: From IQ Measurement to Artificial …
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) …
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 …
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 …
On the war machine assemblages
My lecture from 2017 at the University of Amsterdam: Our collective unconscious of violence: on networks and discipline this thread I’ve been expanding the notion …