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/Culture Machine/20 (2021): /Machine Intelligences/, guest-edited by
Peter Jakobsson, Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt
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Vol. 20: /Machine Intelligences/, guest-edited by Peter Jakobsson, Anne
Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt
From the editors’ introduction
The aim of this special issue is to advance new critical perspectives on
machine intelligence. Although the current hype surrounding artificial
intelligence has been countered by several critical interventions, there
is still a long way to go in order to produce a shift in the mainstream
discourse concerning these technologies. The AI-hype has support from
resourceful and well-connected actors within industry and politics.
Within the art world and popular culture, AI appears to be a more
ambiguous phenomena, associated with both blessings and grave dangers.
Nevertheless, its development is all too often portrayed as though it is
inevitable and that the path it will take is already set. The impulse
behind this special issue is to deepen and diversify the interrogation
of this seemingly inevitable development and to get a look behind the
shiny surfaces of these supposedly new technologies. This special issue
thus offers historical perspectives, conceptual re-thinking and situated
analyses of the technical realities and the social and cultural
implications of machine intelligence, in its many different forms and
manifestations, with the hope that this will provide opportunities to
intervene in and change the course of our technological futures….
Contents
Machine Intelligences – An Introduction
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The Editors
The Mountain in the Machine: Optimization and the Landscapes of Machine
Learning
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– Sam P. Kellogg
Generative Adversarial Copy Machines
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Zeilinger
Optimal Brain Damage: Theorizing the Nervous Present
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– Johannes Bruder & Orit Halpern
In Other Words: Smart Compose and the Consequences of Writing in the Age
of AI
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– Crystal Chokshi
What Personalisation Can Do for You! or, How to Do Racial Discrimination
Without ‘Race’
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– Thao Phan & Scott Wark
Intelligent Borders? Securitizing Smartphones in the European Border
Regime
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– Michelle Pfeifer
‘A Game That is Not a Game’: The Sublime Limit of Human Intelligence and
AI Through Go
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– Kwasu Tembo
Whose Singularity? Artificial Intelligence as a Mechanism of Corporate
Sovereignty
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– Andrew Davis
Theseus in the Epistemic Labyrinth: Critical Histories of Data and the
Apparent Weight of Color
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– Evan Donahue
Artificially Shared Kinesthetic Intelligence
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– Lisa Müller-Trede
We Have Always Been Artificially Intelligent: An Interview with Joanna
Zylinska
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– Claudio Celis and Pablo Ortuzar Kunstmann
Playful Machine Learning: An Interaction Designer’s Journey into Neural
Networks
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– Andreas Refsgaard
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Institute for Creative
Cultures, Coventry University:
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures
http://www.garyhall.info
Latest:
Book (open access): A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/
Chapter (open access): ‘Postdigital Politics’, in Cornelia Sollfrank, Shuhsa
Niederberger and Felix Stalder, eds, Aesthetics of the Commons:
https://www.diaphanes.com/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419
Video: 'Can We Unlearn Liberal Individualism: Gary Hall in Conversation with
Carolina Rito About A Stubborn Fury:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CQiRCib_AU
Podcasts: 'Writing Against Elitism with "A Stubborn
Fury"':https://anchor.fm/aposthumanities/episodes/S2E6-Gary-Hall-Writing-against-elitism-with-A-Stubborn-Fury-e166bip
'The Uberfication of the University - with Gary
Hall':https://soundcloud.com/user-230862454/the-uberfication-of-the-university
Blog posts: 'Combinatorial Books - Gathering Flowers', with Janneke Adema and
Gabriela Méndez
Cota:https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/combinatorial-books-gathering-flowers-part-i/release/1
'Pluriversal Socialism - The Very
Idea':http://mediatheoryjournal.org/gary-hall-pluriversal-socialism-the-very-idea/
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