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) …
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 …
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 …
A few observations about Amazon being urged not to sell facial recognition tool to police
From AP News: Amazon’s decision to market a powerful face recognition tool to police is alarming privacy advocates, who say the tech giant’s reach could …
Ephemeral Archives
From “Silicon Valley Can’t Be Trusted With Our History” “It’s the paradox of the internet age: Smartphones and social media have created an archive of …
Big Data and the ethics of community surveillance
Big Data and the ethics of community surveillance In the previous essay of this ongoing series about Big Data, I discussed how the emotional states …
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When white fears become Big Data: racist emotions and the populists who love them
When white fears become Big Data: racist emotions and the populists who love them At the end of last year I started exploring issues surrounding Big …
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Surveys, vigilance and the myth of neutral data
Surveys, vigilance and the myth of neutral data In mid December I started a series of explorations on Big Data. I hoped to touch on often …
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Private Internet and Public Streets
Private Internet and Public Streets The peak in search for doxxing on the same week that Adrian Chen published his report Last week I published a very …
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A simplified political history of Big Data
A simplified political history of Big Data In the Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body, Victoria Pitts-Taylor traces the racial classification and subsequent quantifications of human beings …