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New Book: Technology, Modernity, and Democracy

Rowman & Littfield will publish our academic committee member, Andrew Feenberg’s new book  “Technology, Modernity, and Democracy” (2018) in this May. You can pre-order his publication at the website Rowman & Littfield: https://www.rowmaninternational.com/book/technology_modernity_and_democracy/3-156-c4643f27-9655-4f1c-b806-1885d5c289a4

About this book

This important collection of essays by Andrew Feenberg presents his critical theory of technology, an innovative approach to philosophy and sociology of technology based on a synthesis of ideas drawn from STS and Frankfurt School Critical Theory.

According to critical theory of technology, technologies are neither neutral nor deterministic, but are encoded with specific socio-economic values and interests. Feenberg explores how they can be developed and adapted to more or less democratic values and institutions, and how their future is subject to social action, negotiation and reinterpretation. Technologies bring with them a particular “rationality,” sets of rules and implied ways of behaving and thinking which, despite their profound influence on institutions, ideas and actions, can be transformed in a process of democratic rationalization. Feenberg argues that the emergence of human communication on the Internet and the environmental movement offer abundant examples of public interventions that have reshaped technologies originally designed for different purposes. This volume includes chapters on citizenship and critical theory of technology, philosophy of technology and modernity, and Heidegger and Marcuse, two of the most prominent philosophers of technology.

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Review: On the Existence of Digital Objects

The review of Yuk Hui’s first publication On the Existence of Digital Objects is published in Jahrbuch Technikphilosophie 2017 and academic journal Theory, Culture & Society. For more information, please refer to below two links:

https://www.academia.edu/33717636/Yuk_Hui_On_the_existence_of_digital_objects
https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/review-yuk-hui-existence-digital-objects/

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Available online: Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social Theory (1995)

The work of Andrew Feenberg, “Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social Theory (1995) ” is now available online. The download link posted in Feenberg’s website: https://www.sfu.ca/~andrewf/Alternative%20Modernity.pdf 

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Event: Seminars and Lectures in School of Intermedia Art, Chinese Academy of Art

Out initiator, Yuk Hui and Bernard Stiegler will participate in the Spring Advanced Class of School of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art. They will conduct lectures and seminars throughout April. For more information, please refer to the information in Chinese: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Ailbr52NWV83rREnl0wdYw

Description of the courses (Chinese)

随着大数据、自动化以及智慧城市的到来,我们正在经历真正意义上的“大转型”,它导致我们现在所谓人类纪(Anthropocene)和熵(entropy)的加速。法国哲学家斯蒂格勒曾引述2008年《连线》杂志主编克里斯•安德森(Chris Anderson)的话:“数据爆炸让所有科学研究方法统统落伍”,斯蒂格勒认为,安德森关于理论知识在大数据时代已然终结的判断犯了一个严重的错误:大数据在对像理论知识这样开放体系关闭的同时,正在将全球化的消费,引向对所有知识的(动手制作的知识,如何活以及如何思考的知识)的毁灭。斯蒂格勒提醒我们:人类纪,就它是一个“熵世纪”而言,正在走向一种完成了的虚无主义。

面对如此一个全球范围内运行的大规模高速毁灭的过程,斯蒂格勒提出“逆熵纪”(Neganthropocene),并明确其任务在于找到逃出人类纪的路径,实施新的标准,组织新的分配,从而摆脱当前的自动化进程。围绕逆熵纪这个核心议题,斯蒂格勒将在本届“高研班”课程中,从列斐伏尔的“日常生活”、博伊斯的“社会雕塑”以及海德格尔关于技术思考的“本有”(Ereignis)等出发具体解析其日常情境、行动艺术与思想路径。

与此同时,我们特邀任教于德国吕纳堡大学数码媒体文化与美学研究所的许煜针对控制论在大数据、自动化以及智能城市中的影响展开集中讨论。海德格尔在1976年著名的《镜报》访谈《只有一个神能拯救我们》中被问到是甚么继承了哲学的位置,他不加思索地回答:控制论。是甚么导致海德格尔如此说?

许煜提醒我们,虽然今天控制论这个说法已被计算机科学取代,然而许多科技的发展事实上都来自于控制论,例如神经网络、人工智能等,而且控制论不单直接作用在技术思想,同时也对艺术理论、设计理论、建筑理论等影响深远。本届“高研班”将集中阅读和讨论控制论艺术的相关文本,例如白南准的《控制论艺术》(1966)、伊阿尼斯·泽纳基斯(Iannis Xenakis)的《自由随机音乐》(1965)等,从而重新理解控制论的实验性尝试对今天影响。

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Event: Crisis and Potentials

Our academic committee member Bernard Stigler will participate in the 90th anniversary of the founding of the China Academy of Art in April. He will participate in the forum “Crisis and Potential – Forum of Deans of the International Academy of Fine Arts”. For details, please refer to the official WeChat post (Chinese only) : http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/92MU-eez4X7FkKH1PVa90g

危机与潜能——国际美术学院院长论坛

时间:2018年4月9日,9:00

地点:杭州,中国美术学院象山校区

校庆期间,中国美术学院将主办「危机与潜能——国际美术学院院长论坛」,并邀请英国皇家艺术学院、美国罗德岛设计学院等60位来自世界17个国家的国际著名美术学院院长以及研究型大学艺术联盟( a2ru )、国际美术学院院长理事会(International Council of Fine Arts Deans) 、艺术与设计独立学院协会(AICAD)等3家国际艺术院校联盟主席前来参加。

论坛上午将分别由法国著名哲学家Bernard Stiegler、新加坡南洋理工大学国家研究中心主管Ute Meta Bauer、中国美术学院副院长高世名和著名建筑师Rem Koolhaas进行主旨演讲。下午分四组进行主题讨论,四个主题分别为:自动化社会的艺术与教育、艺术院校的实践与担当、人的危机与艺术教育的责任、潜能。

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New Book: How to Sleep

Bloomsbury publishing has just published a new book “How to Sleep: The Art, Biology and Culture of Unconsciousness” of our academic committee member, Mattew Fuller in January this year already. For more information of the book, please go to https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/how-to-sleep-9781474288705/

About this book

Sleep is quite a popular activity, indeed most humans spend around a third of their lives asleep. However, cultural, political, or aesthetic thought tends to remain concerned with the interpretation and actions of those who are awake. How to Sleep argues instead that sleep is a complex vital phenomena with a dynamic aesthetic and biological consistency.

Arguing through examples drawn from contemporary, modern and renaissance art; from literature; film and computational media, and bringing these into relation with the history and findings of sleep science, this book argues for a new interplay between biology and culture. Meditations on sex, exhaustion, drugs, hormones and scientific instruments all play their part in this wide-ranging exposition of sleep as an ecology of interacting processes.

How to Sleep builds on the interlocking of theory, experience and experiment so that the text itself is a lively articulation of bodies, organs and the aesthetic systems that interact with them. This book won’t enhance your sleeping skills, but will give you something surprising to think about whilst being ostensibly awake.

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Imagination, technologies et infini
Yuk Hui will give his talk “Imagination, technologies et infini” at École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

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Biased Futures

In transmediale 2018 face value‘s conference program, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Lawrence Lek and Yuk Hui will come together for the panel “Biased Futures.” Here is the information of the event:

Time: 4th Feb, 4:30-6pm.
Venue: Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

More information of Transmediale 2018 can be found at here.

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Event: On Posthuman as Pharmakon-A Dialogue with Günther Anders and Gilbert Simondon

Yuk Hui will present his talk “On Posthuman as Pharmakon-A Dialogue with Günther Anders and Gilbert Simondon” in SungKyunKwan University, Seoul, Korea on 30th October. Please find the following for more information (in Korean):

*어머 이건 꼭 가야해 2탄*
문화연구와 디지털기술철학, 포스트휴먼의 가교를 잇는 연구자 Yuk Hui 초청강연

“인간은 언제나 인공물과 자연물로 둘러싸인 혼성의 환경에서 살아왔습니다. 인공과 자연은 두 개의 별개의 영역이 아니며 인공물은 단순히 자연물을 정복하는 도구가 아닙니다. 오히려 인공물은 인간의 경험과 존재를 조건 짓는 역동적인 시스템을 구성하고 있습니다. 인공이 훨씬 더 구체화되고 끊임없이 발전하고 있다는 바로 그 이유로, 단일의 역사적 조건에 대한 지속적인 반영이 필요합니다. 우리가 살고 있는 환경 또한 바뀌고 있습니다. 비디오테입은 유투브가, 식사 초대장은, 전화와 이메일, 또는 페이스북 초대장으로 바뀌었죠. 이러한 ‘대상들’은 기본적으로 공유하기 쉽고 제어도 쉬운 데이터들입니다. 이 데이터들은 ‘설정’을 통해 보이거나 안보이게 만들 수 있는 것들이죠. 이 책은 이러한 ‘디지털 대상들’에 대한 조사를 수행하고자 합니다.”
*Yuk Hui,『디지털 대상들의 존재에 대해 On the Existence of Digital Objects』(2016) 서문의 일부를 번역한 것임.*

안녕하세요! 성균관대학교 비교문화 연계전공·협동과정입니다. 위 책의 저자인 Hui Yuk을 성균관대학교로 초청해 강연을 열게 되었습니다.

Yuk Hui(許煜) (독일 Leuphana University 연구원)은 홍콩 대학교와 골드스미스 대학교에서 기술 철학에 초점을 맞추어 컴퓨터 공학, 문화 이론 및 철학을 전공했습니다. 현재 ICAM Leuphana University Lüneburg의 “참여의 테크노 생태학”프로젝트의 연구원이며, 철학 연구소 (IPK)에서 강의하고 있습니다. 『디지털 대상들의 존재에 대해 On the Existence of Digital Objects』(2016)『중국에서의 기술에 관한 질문The Question Concerning Technology in China』(2016) 등의 저작이 있으며 슈팅글러(Bernard Stiegler)가 서문을 작성한 바 있습니다.

주제: “On Posthuman as Pharmakon-A Dialogue with Günther Anders and Gilbert Simondon” (파르마콘으로서의 포스트휴먼: 기술 철학자들과의 대화(하이데거, 안데르스, 시몽동을 중심으로)
일시: 10/30(월) 오후 4시30분 부터
장소: 수선관 61907

관심있으신 분들은 누구나 참석하실 수 있습니다! 많은 참여 바랍니다. 학부생 환영입니다^^ 소정의 기념품도 드려요(소근소근)
문의: 비교문화연계전공 02-760-1093

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The Ethics of Coding and the Human Algorithmic Condition (Peg Birmingham and Yuk Hui)

Yuk Hui will speak at the event “The Ethics of Coding and the Human Algorithmic Condition” at Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. More information can be found at here.

Men are conditioned beings because everything they come into contact with turns immediately into a condition of their existence. – Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (1958)

In this discursive event, writer and researcher Yuk Hui and philosopher Peg Birmingham explore the intersections between the practice of ethics and the technology of algorithms. The ‘algorithmic condition’ marks a contemporary moment when the global economy and governmental control function through an algorithmic networked environment.

Coding and the production of algorithms have become a part of new artistic practices and social inventions, including art hacktivism, generative artworks, legal alibis, self-help bots and even cybernetic companions. Researchers, philosophers and artists venturing into the world of coding and algorithmic programming will quickly run in to the potential violence of these methods, ranging from racial profiling and online abuse to social exclusion and algorithmic warfare.

Revisiting Jean-François Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition (1979) and Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition (1958) and questioning the relevance of their philosophical theories for the contemporary moment, Peg Birmingham and Yuk Hui will touch on notions of ethics, the inhuman, citizenship and rights.

Addressing the extent to which the coding of the social, ethical, and pedagogic is always already invested in the maintenance of power relations that control the economic conditions for knowledge, the speakers question how a shared and common responsibility can be generated through the actions of a community in the digital age.

Peg Birmingham is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago, editor of Philosophy Today, author of Hannah Arendt and Human Rights (2006), and currently completing a manuscript titled Deception, Violence, and Law: Renewing the Political.

She is the co-editor (with Anna Yeatman) of Aporia of Rights: Explorations in Citizenship in the Era of Human Rights (Bloomsbury, 2014), and co-editor (with Philippe van Haute) of Dissensus Communis: Between Ethics and Politics (Koros 1995).She has published in journals such as Research In Phenomenology, Hypatia, The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, Law, Culture, and the Humanities, and New Centurion Review on topics that include radical evil, human rights, violence, deception, and the temporality of the political.

Yuk Hui studied computer engineering, cultural theory and philosophy at the University of Hong Kong and Goldsmiths College in London, with a focus on the philosophy of technology. He is currently a researcher at the ICAM of Leuphana University Lüneburg where he also teaches at the Institute of Philosophy. He has published on philosophy and technology in periodicals such as Metaphilosophy, Research in Phenomenology, Angelaki, Parrhesia, Cahiers Simondon, Jahrbuch Technikphilosophie, Implications Philosophiques and Intellectica.

He is the author of On the Existence of Digital Objects and The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics (both 2016), and co-editor of 30 Years after Les Immatériaux: Art, Science and Theory (2015) which explored the legacy of Lyotard’s exhibition Les Immatériaux.

Panel discussion moderated by Felicity Colman, Professor of Film & Media Arts, Kingston University.

Audience members are encouraged to visit Seth Price’s exhibition across the ICA’s gallery spaces, and in particular his most recent video, presented in the ICA Cinemas. Social Synth is an abstraction enabled by technological development: a computer-controlled robot camera was employed to gather thousands of close-up images of the skin of a squid, which were then stitched together algorithmically and imported into a 3D cinema programme to add motion and light effects.

This event is part of the Ethics of Coding and the Human Algorithmic Condition research project led by Kingston University. The interdisciplinary think tank is working toward a report for the EU Commission asking how knowledge and ethics can be defined in societies that are governed by algorithmic systems and objects. The project is funded by the European Commission: H2020 – EU.2.1.1. – Industrial Leadership – Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies – Information and Communication Technologies, project number 732407.

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Discussion at Colorado School of Mines with Yuk Hui, Carl Mitcham and Michael Zimmerman

Yuk Hui will give his talks in Colorado School of Mines on 21 and 23 October. He will talk and discuss about his two major publications (On the Existence of Digital Objects and The Question Concerning Technology in China) in the first event. In the second event, he will give his talk “Technical Knowledge in the Epoch of Digital Automation”.

More details can be found at here and here.


Hennebach Saturday Seminars: Digital Objects and Technology in China

October 21 @ 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Fish Bowl Room 266B, Arthur Lakes Library

In each seminar, Yuk Hui will begin with a brief indication of the argument of his books and then we will open to discussion. Anyone who would like a PDF of the introduction to either book, please email Carl Mitcham at cmitcham@mines.edu. A short interview introducing Yuk Hui is available in a recent issue of the Hong Kong Review of Books.

10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: Discussion of On the Existence of Digital Objects (2016)
2-4:30 p.m.: Discussion of The Question Concerning Technology in China (2016)

Dr. Yuk Hui, who holds degrees in computer science and in philosophy, is currently a research associate in the project on Techno-ecologies of Participation at Leuphana University, Germany, and visiting professor at the China National Academy of Art, Hangzhou. He works closely with Bernard Stiegler, and publishes regularly on philosophy of technology and media. He comes to CSM after giving invited lectures at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz.


Hennebach Lecture: Technical Knowledge in the Epoch of Digital Automation

October 23 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Boettcher Room 219

What constitutes “technological knowledge” in the epoch of industrial automation?In his talk, Yuk Hui questions technological knowledge and the understanding of machines as a form of fixed capital. Instead, as machines move away from factories and into smart phones, smart homes, smart cities, the environmentalization of fixed capital today characterizes new forms of governmentality and capital, as well as new relations between human and machine. In a talk that explores this new understanding of the machine, Hui uses the idea of “transindividuality” to understand human-machine relations.

Dr. Yuk Hui, who holds degrees in computer science and in philosophy, is currently a research associate in the project on “Techno-ecologies of Participation” at Leuphana University, Germany, and visiting professor at the China National Academy of Art, Hangzhou. He works closely with Bernard Stiegler, and publishes regularly on philosophy of technology and media. He comes to CSM after giving invited lectures at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz. He is the author of On the Existence of Digital Objects (2016) and The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics (2016) and co-editor of 30 Years after Les Immatériaux: Art, Science and Theory (2015). He publishes regularly on philosophy of technology and media.

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Symposium: Between the Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of Mind

Our committee members, Erich Hörl and Yuk Hui will give their talk at the symposium “Between the Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of Mind” on 17th October. The symposium hosted by Berkeley Center for New Media. complete information can be found at here.


Between the Digital and the Political: New Ecologies of Mind
A Symposium: History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series

When Gregory Bateson, the anthropologist and visionary cyberneticist, introduced his concept of an “ecology of mind” he was encouraging us to pay attention to the ways in which human thinking took place in and across complex networks of activity – biological, technical, social, and political. The individual was an active but ephemeral node in a striated eco-system of ideas and cognition that had to be understood and managed at the high levels of order.

And yet, within the intertwined disciplines of cognitive science, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, master disciplines that dominate the study of human thought in the twenty-first century, most research is still relentlessly focused on the individual mind-brain nexus. This despite the steady recognition in the parallel universe of Science and Technology Studies, Continental Philosophy, and Sociology that cognition is something that is shared between minds, between minds and machines, and between people and institutional matrices.

The intensity and rapidity of the digital revolution has unraveled the individual mind-brain paradigm. It is now impossible to deny the ways in which human cognition is enmeshed with its technical prostheses, since those technical systems are now so persistent and so automated, the human mind is no longer always capable of defending its own autonomy. The political and social (not to mention economic) stakes of this revolution are clear, even if new resolutions are uncertain.

This symposium will explore the “new ecology” of mind that challenges us today as we seek to reconfigure our cognitive worlds between the political and the digital – as old institutions of power and knowledge are deformed and new relationships (visible and invisible) are forming. The key issue will be automation, automaticity, and autonomy: how does our new new media ecology work to automate moods, preference, perceptions – subjectivity itself – with and through the increasing automatization and neutralization of the political?

Sponsored by Berkeley Center for New Media, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, and the Dean of Arts and Humanities


Schedule
1.00 PM Welcome
1:15 PM Erich Hörl (Leuphana University)
2:15 PM Break
2:30 PM Yuk Hui (Leuphana University)
3:30 PM Coffee
4:00 PM Panel discussion with Erich Hörl, Yuk Hui, Luciana Parisi (Goldsmith College), Warren Sack (UC Santa Cruz), David Bates (UC Berkeley)


Erich Hörl
This talk outlines several modes of becoming-environmental that characterize the development thanks to which environmentality [Umweltlichkeit] has become our condition today: the becoming-environmental of media, of power, of subjectivity, of world, of capital and of thinking. The process of cybernetization initiated around 1900—and the process of computerization since 1950 in particular––culminating in the becoming-environmental of computation, is to be understood as a time of environmentalization, that forces us into the new power/knowledge complex of Environmentality [Environmentalität] and that obliges us – as a line of flight – to rethink environmentality as such beyond its restricted actual forms. Accordingly, the key challenge for a general ecology of media and technology is to advance the critique of Environmentalization by developing an analysis of its restricted forms, first of all of the environmentalitarian capital-form, and to break through towards a speculative thinking of the environment and a new environmental image of thought.

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Erich Hörl is the Professor of Media Culture at the Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM), Leuphana University of Lüneburg. He is also a member of Leuphana Digital Culture Research Lab (DCRL). Between 2007 and 2014 he was head of the Bochum Colloquium Mediastudies (bkm). His current research interests concern the development of a general ecology of media and technologies as well as a critique of the process of cyberneticization of all life forms and modes of existence since around 1950. He writes widely on the theoretical challenges and the historical becoming of todays technological condition and has a special expertise in Simondon Studies, Heidegger Studies as well as Guattari Studies. Among his publications are General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm (Bloomsbury 2017, as contributing editor); Die technologische Bedingung: Beiträge zur Beschreibung der technischen Welt (Suhrkamp 2011, as contributing editor); Die Transformation des Humanen. Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte der Kybernetik (Suhrkamp 2008, as contributing editor); Die Heiligen Kanäle. Über die archaische Illusion der Kommunikation (Diaphanes 2005; English translation forthcoming with Amsterdam UP 2018); »A Thousand Ecologies« in The Whole Earth. California and the Disappearance of the Outside, ed. by D. Diedrichsen and A. Franke (Sternberg Press 2013), 121-131; »The technological condition“, in Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, 22/2015, S. 1-15; »The artificial intelligence of sense: the history of sense and technology after Jean-Luc Nancy« in Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, 17 / 2013, 11-24; »Luhmann, the Non-trivial Machine and the Neocybernetic Regime of Truth“ in Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 29/3, 2012, 94-121.


Yuk Hui
Archives of the Future – Remarks on the concept of Tertiary Protention

In this talk, I will revisit the relation between protention and retension in the work of Husserl, Derrida to Stiegler, with special attention to Husserl’s later Bernau manuscripts, which shed new light on this question. Through this historical trajectory, this talk hopes to elaborate on what I developed in On the Existence of Digital Objects the concept of tertiary protention, by which we can understand as technologies of anticipation ranging from debt to prediction. I will suggest that tertiary protention, which cannot be reduced to any form of retention, becomes the central question of the current stage of digital automation and constitutes a new regime of politics. In order to inquire into the “new ecologies of mind”, we will have to systematically examine and integrate the question of tertiary protention.

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Yuk Hui studied Computer Engineering, Cultural Theory and Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong and Goldsmiths College in London, with a focus on philosophy of technology. He is currently a research associate of the project “techno-ecologies of participation” at the Leuphana University Lüneburg, where he also teaches at the institute of philosophy; previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Research and Innovation of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and a visiting scientist at the T-Labs Berlin. He has published on philosophy of media and technology in periodicals such as Metaphilosophy, Research in Phenomenology, Parrhesia, Angelaki, Cahiers Simondon, Intellectica, Implications Philosophiques, Jahrbuch Technikphilosophie, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, New Formations,Parallax, etc. He is an editor (with Andreas Broeckmann) of 30 Years after Les Immatériaux: Art, Science and Theory (2015), and author of On the Existence of Digital Objects (prefaced by Bernard Stiegler, University of Minnesota Press, March 2016), The Question Concerning Technology in China. An Essay in Cosmotechnics (Urbanomic, December 2016).


Luciana Parisi
Luciana Parisi is Reader in Cultural Theory, Chair of the PhD programme at the Centre for Cultural Studies, and co-director of the Digital Culture Unit, Goldsmiths University of London. Her research draws on continental philosophy to investigate ontological and epistemological transformations driven by the function of technology in culture, aesthetics and politics. Her writing aims to develop a naturalistic approach to thinking and technology. She is interested in cybernetics, information theory and computation, complexity and evolutionary theories. Her writing addresses the technocapitalist investment in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, nanotechnology. She has written extensively within the field of Media Philosophy and Computational Design. In 2004, she published Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire (Continuum Press). In 2013, she published Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics and Space (MIT Press). She is currently researching the history of automation and the philosophical consequences of logical thinking in machines.


Warren Sack
Warren Sack is a media theorist, software designer, and artist whose work explores theories and designs for online public space and public discussion. He is Chair and Professor of Film + Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he teaches digital arts and digital studies. He has been a visiting professor in France at Sciences Po, the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme, and Télécom ParisTech. His artwork has been exhibited by SFMOMA (San Francisco), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and the ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany). His scholarship and research has been supported by the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Sunlight Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. Warren received his PhD from the MIT Media Lab and was an undergraduate at Yale College. The subject of his talk will be The Software Arts, a book manuscript for the MIT Press “Software Studies” series.

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