Introduction: Felix Stalder, Konrad Becker 00:00 min – 08:00 min Michael Taussig: The Revenge of the Sirens 08:00 min – 1h 04:00 min Questions and Answers 1h 04:30 min –…
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Digital Unconscious – collaboration with springerin magazine – springerin 4/2019 With S.M. Amadae on paranoid Logic and Prisoners of Reason, Ewen Chardronnet on technological Death Cults, Critical Art Ensemble on…
Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) #digitalunconscious (CIC lecture 23.10. 2018) Dr. (Samuel) Johnson once said about ghosts that “all argument is against it, but all belief is for it.” If universal…
On Lively Objects and Animated Things, on the Logic of Faith and Skepticism, on Mimetic Faculty and the Metamorphic Sublime, on Discourse and the Resonance of Ideas, on Signifiers and…
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…