The story of digital systems is often told quite simply: autonomous machines with almost perfect knowledge and unshakable precision, based on clear mathematics and objective logic, replace biased and unreliable…
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at Depot 11. 05. 2021 19:00 Zoom Online
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 –…
Vienna, 12. ebruary 2020
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…
Michael Taussig wanders around the room of the Red Bar at the Vienna Volkstheater, in between the guests who have already found their places and are sipping their drinks within…
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.