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 …
Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee: A CONVERSATION ON ~ THE POWER OF DOING NOTHING
“I’ve probably inherited my mother’s exhaustion and my grandmother’s exhaustion…There’s such a thing as intergenerational debt – and it’s not just economic, it’s also energetic.” …
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 …
The temperature at the border – System of Systems
During the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic, all symposia, lectures and events were moved online. This was my video contribution to the online program …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …