No Future: Full Throttle Death Drive and Coronacapitalism in The Netherlands
“Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavouring, as far as …
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) …
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 …
Private space, public space, personal space
Just a few reflections scribbled in haste for future reference. Re-reading Jurgen Habermas’ “The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere” (a text I gotta confess …
Video – Deleuze Guattari: Societies of Control and Antipsychiatry
Postscript on the Societies of Control – Gilles Deleuze Featured Image Pixabay at Pexels
Towards a post Trump world: Mainstreaming Men’s Rights Activists
Towards a post Trump world: Mainstreaming Men’s Rights Activists International media observes, dissects and discusses every move that Donald Trump makes. His every Tweet, no …
The possibilities of radical consent
The possibilities of radical consent This is a slightly edited version of a talk I gave last summer at Progress Bar in Amsterdam. It’s Saturday night, …