Category: World-Information Institute
Felix Stalder: “Before introducing Michael Taussig, let me give you some context for this afternoon’s event. My name is Felix Stalder, and together with Konrad Becker, we’ve been organizing a series of events exploring the increased role of automated decision-making in our contemporary culture. This story is often told as a relatively straight forward one: Autonomous machines, with near-perfect knowledge and unwavering precision based on unambiguous math and objective logic, replace biased, and unreliable humans, in a quest for higher efficiency and fairer outcomes. But the closer we looked, the more dubious this story became and the more similar the whole endeavor became to performance of a magician, operating on the level of language, belief, and substitution.
Felix Stalder on the social history and economics of Truth. Live feed at the Cultural Intelligence Collective Talk on “What is to be Done?” on October 23rd at FoD.
What Is To Be Done? 22. – 23. October 2018 The Future of Demonstration Scherzergasse 1A, 1020 Vienna culturalintelligence.zone
As the Hypernormal Hybrid series continues, this evening aims to explore a peculiar and intriguing topic of our algorithmic world: the Unconscious. While the neoclassical interior of Volkstheater’s Rote Bar…
Thursday 10. May 19:30h Rote Bar, Arthur-Schnitzler-Platz 1, A-1070 Lydia H. Liu with Thomas Macho on Freudian Robots Marc Elsberg with Felix Stalder on Fiction and Models (in German) Algolounge:…
Non-human problem solving or the limits of species superiority. Text for Hypernormal Hybrids November 2017 in collaboration with springerin magazine: springerin 1/2018
Hypernormal Hybrids collaboration with springerin magazine: four texts by Susana Monsó, Stefan Woltron, Konrad Becker and Felix Stalder and S.M. Amadae’s article on “Neoliberal Capitalism, Neo-Materialism, and Beyond” under the title…