---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Krystian Woznicki <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 1:49 PM Subject: [bgcon] SILENT WORKS · Reviews To: <[email protected]>
Hi, last week the most recent text about the BG's 2020 SILENT WORKS project (https://silentworks.info) was published and we are taking this as an occasion to present a selection of reviews that were published in this year so far. *Phoenix Nomi: Summoning the Ghost in the Machine* "Despite the dystopian undertones, the message in SILENT WORKS is ultimately one of hope: solidarity is the glue that reconnects humans to the meanings of our actions. We still have the power to change, and working together as equals is the only way forward." https://news.techworkerscoalition.org/2021/09/06/issue-17/ *Gavin Mueller: Turning the Magic of AI Inside Out* "The Berliner Gazette seems to have immediately grasped the significance of Covid-19 to the already existing trajectories of capitalism’s technological restructuring, or in their words ‘the pandemic-related crisis as a crisis of AI-capitalism’." https://www.onlineopen.org/silent-works-the-hidden-labor-of-ai-capitalism *Kevin Rittberger: Against AI capitalism’s fantasies of powerlessness* "It is time to recognize Inhuman Labor as Janus-faced: on the one hand, the inhumane working conditions, including the impossibility of precarized wage workers to use AI for emancipative, sustainable and non-capitalist purposes; on the other, Big Tech’s fantasy of powerlessness, which needs to be exposed as just that." https://springerin.at/en/2021/1/isilent-worksi/ *Jaron Rowan: Knowledge in Action* "Ways of knowing that can give a voice to those who suffer from the imposition of algorithmic logic at work; to the invisible bodies entangled in distribution and logistics chains; to the workforce regulated by apps, algorithmic calculations, geo-locations and notifications." https://non.copyriot.com/knowledge-in-action/ *Jess Henderson: Full Automation, Full Fantasy* "The fact that there are real people having to witness and manually assess content (from banal fodder to ‘the pornographic, the obscene, the violent, the illegal, the abusive, and the hateful’) illustrates how AI capitalism is not just a matter of real-existing AI at work, but also a matter of the fantasy and appearance of AI at work." https://www.harun-farocki-institut.org/de/2021/01/25/full-automation-full-fantasy-2/ *Georg Fischer: Making "hidden work" on digital platforms visible* (GER) "Processes controlled by "artificial intelligence" often appear to proceed independently. In fact, however, humans perform numerous, often very monotonous activities in the background. The ambiguous title of one of the workshop projects "Artificial Artificial Intelligence (AAI)" refers to this as fake artificial intelligence." https://irights.info/webschau/website-macht-verborgene-arbeiten-auf-digitalen-plattformen-sichtbar/30547 *Gesa Ufer: The Work Behind The Click* (GER) "Algorithms will do our work for us, is one of the slogans of digitalization. The conference and exhibition SILENT WORKS of the online newspaper Berliner Gazette wants to make the "dirty work" behind the beautiful surfaces visible." https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/konferenz-silent-works-die-arbeit-hinter-dem-klick.2156.de.html?dram:article_id=487124 *Lara Luna Bartley: The Invisible Hand* "SILENT WORKS got me thinking about invisibilized work more broadly. A t-shirt is made once, but it is washed hundreds of times. And yet, our economic systems ascribe economic value to the inititial making but not the subsequent care." http://www.laralunabartley.com/home/the-invisible-hand Thanks to all! Kind regards, Krystian -- -------------------------------------------------------------- BG – Berliner Gazette | since 1999 | https://berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- BLACK BOX EAST – "Post-Communist" Laboratories of Globalization BG Project 2021: Workshops, Texts + Artworks https://blackboxeast.berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- SILENT WORKS – The Hidden Labor in AI-Capitalism BG Project 2020: Exhibition, Conference + Texts https://silent-works.berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- MORE WORLD – How Can We Cooperate Across Borders to Tackle Climate Change? Results from BG’s 20th Anniversary Event: Videos, Audios, Projects + Texts https://more-world.berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list %(list_address)s https://ml-cgn05.ispgateway.de/mailman/listinfo/digi-yards_berlinergazette.de -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/
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