Botched Little Animals
the agency we can actively assert over our own futures, which is fundamentally usurped by predictive, data-driven systems
James Bridle • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff Review – We Are the Pawns
Our discomfort with this indifference manifests in a predictable pattern: we try to turn AI into a comprehensible villain. In reference to Girard, every society is built, in part, on the ritual of scapegoating, a mechanism by which collective anxieties, rivalries, and fears are projected onto a villain or outcast, thereby restoring temporary order ... See more
Tina He • AI, Heidegger, and Evangelion
‘Technology’, she wrote, ‘is the active human interface with the material world.’
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
We realised that the tools we have created to master the world are re-mastering us. But more importantly, it became evident, that the desire for mapping, tweaking and ultimately, controlling, deeply complex systems is hubristic. As Tega Brain writes in her exceptional essay “we must acknowledge how deeply entrenched we are within a computational wo... See more
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
