10 / November 23

Machine Decision is Not Final: ‘Humanmade Intelligence’ in China

“Nature builds no machines, no locomotives, railways, electric telegraphs, self-acting mules etc. These are products of human industry; natural material transformed into organs of the human will over nature, or of human participation in nature. They are organs of the human brain, created by the human hand; the power of knowledge, objectified.”
— Dai Shanren, quoting Marx from the Grundrisse

Topics

Humanmade intelligence vs. black technology; the AI garden; What's the Deal with Birds?, Birds Aren't Real: predatory journals, internet hoaxing; hoaxing, Yippies to Yes Men to Birds Aren't Real; art as abstract machine; Deleuze and Guattari's abstract machines, Art as Abstract Machine; first to second order cybernetics, von Foerster, Maturana, Varela, et al.; Sozialeplastik, neuroplastic, abstraction, and the Hack; Honey Pump in the Workplace; hacking v. central processing, aggregation and signal-boost

Readings 3

from Machine Decision Is Not Final Anna Greenspan, Bogna Konior, Shuang L. Frost What’s the Deal with Birds? Daniel T. Baldassarre Art as Abstract Machine Stephen Zepke

Additional Reading & Primary Documents 1

The Method of Levels of Abstraction Luciano Floridi

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